Notes from James/Burint meeting

[JamesPHoughton]

Problems

• how to find the javascript from another folder (flask?)
• how to call python function within js? (on the server)
• when someone clicks "accept" or "reject" how to replace text of message box with new suggestion.
• how to record the data on server-side? Update an SQL table. need an API endpoint on server
• how to make sure sockets are robust

Potential user issues:

• when I enter the room name, there are two options, to join or create a room, and I don't know which one to use
• when I type a message, I can't use to submit the message
• the text window spills out the bottom of its container
• the messages container doesn't automatically scroll to the bottom when a new message is added
• chat messages aren't attributed, so limited to 2 participants (it looks like with three,
• tab name is "flask chat"
• When a new player joins, previous messages are shown, but previous "Mike has entered the chat" messages are not shown
• The players seem to be keyed on name, so if two players have the same name, all the messages are on the right hand side.
• The room code used to create a room is not the same as the code you get when you are actually in a room - ie, the chat room code is not used at all in creating rooms, but in the display it looks as though it is.
• The "leave the room" takes me back to the login page - might want a "thanks" page...

Checks that look good:

• Rooms seem well separated - using the same name in two different rooms doesn't seem to create a problem

[JamesPHoughton]

Fixed import by moving javascript folder to static and using flask command:

<script src="{{ url_for('static', filename='javascript/modal.js') }}"></script>

Dealt with calling python by adding a new socket event that happens when you click "submit", calls a socket handler on the server side, which runs python and returns a message to the client side with the python result.

Code for replacing text in input box is:

const inputField = document.getElementById("message-input");
inputField.value = suggestedRevision;

Write to database from server side in socket callbacks.

Best strategy for making the websockets robust (if they turn out not to be good) might be just to find someone who knows websockets really well on upwork once everything else is in place.