Chat Plugin for Skygear

Get the demo running at Skygear cloud

First

Assumed you go registered at https://portal.skygeario.com

Second

git submodule to import the source code.

git submodule add https://github.com/SkygearIO/chat.git chat

In your cloud code, import the chat plugin. Skygear will load and lambda and database hook will be ready for use.

from .chat import plugin as chat_plugin

Third

Tell Skygear cloud to serve the asset from demo folder

from skygear import static_assets
from skygear.utils.assets import relative_assets

from .chat import *


@static_assets(prefix='demo')
def chat_demo():
    return relative_assets('chat/js-sdk/demo')

https://<your_app_name>.skygeario.com/static/demo/index.html

Fourth

Update database schema

curl https://<your_app_name>.skygeario.com/chat-plugin-init

Understanding the model

In this chat plugin, we have 2 model. It responsibility as follow.

• Conversation - storing information on who is the admins, conversation title, last message arrival time, etc.
• Message - actual message to be display on screen, including the related asset and metadata.
• UserConversation - the exist of this relation represent a user is participant of a conversation. It store information on user specific information to a conversation, like last read time and unread count.

For API detail, please visit the platform specific API filie:

• JS SDK
• [iOS SDK] - WIP
• [Android SDK] - WIP