This project is a fast and reliable instant messaging that allow multiple clients to communicate, share files or be part of chat rooms...
Example of a communication between two clients
- Choose a pseudonym
- Send a global message to all clients
- Send a private message to a specific user
- Upload a file to the server
- Download a file from the server
- Join / Quit a chat room
- Create / Delete a chat room
- Censorship of bad words
You can update the list of bad words in the file badWords.txt
The file is located at ./assets/badWords.txt.
- Server side the clients are store with a Doubly Circular Linked Lists with head of list
- RW lock for concurent access in read and exclusive access in write
- Multi-threading to manage multiple clients, handle file transfer...
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/bastian-albaut/chat-app-cli.git- Enter the following command on root of the project:
./run.sh