[NEW] Federation

[alansikora]

This is an early implementation of Rocket.Chat's federation feature.

This adds a new layer of events that handles the communication between two or more peers.

[ggazzo]

what happens if nameValidation = new RegExp(options.nameValidationRegex); throws an error?

my suggestion:

	try {
			nameValidation = new RegExp(`^${ options.nameValidationRegex || settings.get('UTF8_Names_Validation') }$`)

		} catch (error) {
			nameValidation = new RegExp('^[0-9a-zA-Z-_.]+$');
		}
	}

[grahhnt]

When will the hub software be available? I would like to run the hub software separate from the official one. Thanks!

[geekgonecrazy]

I’m not sure what the plans are there. Curious though why you want to run your own hub?

[grahhnt]

@geekgonecrazy i would like to allow certain aspects of my community to be pulled out and put under their own administration. I would like to have like foo.mycommunity.net and bar.mycommunity.net to share accounts (so people wouldn't have to create separate accounts) and be able to easily communicate.

This is possible with the iframe API, having a callback to the "master" instance, but it isn't as streamlined as I would like it to be. Having the federation system would allow this to work a lot better.

[geekgonecrazy]

Interesting. If it’s just about user accounts can do a central authentication source like oauth. Could actually setup one as oauth server.

Just to be clear. Federation is letting users on foo.mycommunity.com to talk to users on bar.mycommunity.com

Users from foo.mycommunity.com won’t actually be able to login to bar.mycommunity.com.

They would stay on their own server and simply join rooms/talk to people on the other server.

[MIKI785]

@geekgonecrazy This is something I would find useful as well. As we have multiple locations with separate RC instances, this would allow these locations to be connected together without going through the public federation. We don't need shared accounts, just to be able to comunnicate across the instances.

[grahhnt]

@geekgonecrazy yeah it would just allow people to have the ability to communicate between instances without creating a new account and having to have 2 browser tabs open.