i want to make a chat room on gae ,(audio chat)
has any framework to do this ?
thanks
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If you support Jingle then all you have to do is pass the XMPP packets around. There's lots of modules that support that.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-06-10 08:17:21
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App Engine doesn't directly support audio chat of any sort, and since it's based around a request-response system with (primarily) HTTP requests, you can't implement it yourself.
Nick Johnson
2010-06-10 09:09:53
So you can't have the app initiate a HTTP session and hold it open while the client and server stream HTTP messages back and forth?
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-06-11 05:43:28
I presume you mean an HTTP connection, since there's no such thing as an HTTP session. No, App Engine doesn't give you any control over the underlying connection - and I'm not sure what it would buy you in any case.
Nick Johnson
2010-06-11 11:59:53
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You'll need two things:
A browser plugin to get audio. You could build this on top of eg. libjingle which has the advantage of being cross-platform and allowing P2P communication, not to mention being able to talk to arbitrary other XMPP endoints. Or you could use Flash to grab the audio and bounce the stream off a server you build (I think trying to do STUN in Flash for P2P would be impossible), but this would be very tricky to do in App Engine because you'd need it to be long-running.
A way to get signaling messages between your clients. You'll have to poll until the Channel API is released (soon).
This is a big hairy problem, to put it mildly, but it would be awesome if you did it.
Moishe
2010-06-11 05:26:30
It doesn't need to be a browser per se, it just needs some sort of application that talks HTTP.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-06-11 05:42:05
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Try Adobe Stratus (p2p connections) and use Google App Engine only for excanging peer ids.
Pavel Alexeev
2010-06-20 17:12:07