Distributed Social Network

Distributed Social Network (yet to be named) is a MakeBU project.

Authors:

• Emmanuel Amponsah
• Hayato Nakamura
• Joseph Lai
• Ken Garber
• Shoki Ko
• William Pine

Flowchart Overview

• User starts the program (their server), and it either creates its own network or joins a specified network.
• Server goes into an infinite loop to support two services:
  • 1: network communications, and
  • 2: user interface
• User interface allows the user to:
  • 1: view all chatrooms, view and send messages in chatrooms, and
  • 2: view and set their identity.
• Database layer supports the server side in order to store data persistently and recall data

Supporting Tools

• Python server configuration and load visualization
• C++ database compression tool

Components

• Server
  • Network Communication
  • Local User Interface
• User Interface
  • Local server
  • Front end (in browser)
• Database layer

Running the project

• Have Go installed
• Navigate to the project repository
• Set your GOPATH variable to that directory. You can do this with GOPATH=$(pwd) on mac or linux. There's probably a way on Windows, too.
• Use go build cli to build the project
• Run the program with one of two commands - the "start" command if you're starting a new network, or the "join" command if you're joining a network. The arguments are self explanatory.
  • ./cli start myIpAddr myPort myName
  • ./cli join friendIpAddr friendPort myIpAddr myPort myName
• Now type and hit enter to send messages!