OSU CSE 5461 Project2
ReadMe for BulletinBoard ——————————————————————————————————————————— author: Wei Pan pan.520 Yue Cao cao.613
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How to run: For server, please run BulletinBoardServer.java For Client, please run BulletinBoardClient.py
How to use: There are following command to use. 1.%USERNAME John Log in as username john 2.%GROUPS Show all the groups can join 3.%GROUPJOIN groupID/groupName Join a group by its ID or its name 4.%GROUPPOST groupID/groupName Subject1:Content1 Subject2:Content2 Subject3:Content3 To post a message to a specific group,first select a group using “%GROUPPOST +groupID/Name”.Then use “MessageSubject:MessageContent” to implement your following post messages to this group.If you want to change group to post, again do “%GROUPPOST +groupID/Name”. 5.%GROUPMESSAGE GROUPID MessageID To get a specific message by its groupID and MessageID 6.%GROUPUSERS GroupID/GroupName To get a list of the users of a group 7.%GROUPLEAVE GroupID/GroupName To leave a group 8.%EXIT To leave bulletinBoard
For the server, we use multithreading to issue every client a single thread to avoid conflict.The sever get Json data from clients, parse the data and extract the command, get the data, put it back into Json and then send to the clients. Client gather user input from a simple GUI, put it into Json and send to the server.Client also receive Json data from server and parse it and show it on the GUI.
Additional Credit Point: 1.We use python for client side, Java for Server side 2.We implement a simple GUI for client