[Sugar-devel] Collaboration support for sugar web activities

[Emil Dudev]

Busy month...

Anyway, I checked out telepathy and tried to fix the many protocol
problems. Sadly, I gave up pretty easily. I suppose it would be easier to
rewrite the whole process from scratch.

Today I was able to recreate the basic functionality of TogetherJS' server.
>From a nodejs server, I rewrote it in python (using gwebsockets). This will
give me the ability to customize it freely.

Tomorrow I plan on building the basic invitation process using web sockets.
I suppose it will be more reliable than telepathy. And it would possibly be
better for an Android app or other systems with limited functionality.

About WebRTC: I really think that peer-to-peer connections are needed. But
at this point, I'll go with client-server connections.

gwebsockets: https://github.com/edudev/gwebsockets/tree/master
websocket-server: https://github.com/edudev/web-reply

Emil Dudev

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 January 2014 19:01, Emil Dudev <emildudev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> About the telepathy part to send only the invites and establish the
>> connection:
>> I can't seem to be able to complete the invitation accepted process.
>> Sometimes it works, sometimes not (mostly not). For normal sugar activities
>> it's the same (with the exception that with them it mostly works, at least
>> I think it works).
>> Exchanging the TogetherJS ID is not a problem. The invited user can't
>> seem to connect to the telepathy channel properly.
>> As you noted above, it's a protocol mess.
>> If telepathy is completely dropped for web activities, then a question
>> arises: how to send the invite with the unique ID?
>>
>
> I don't know the details of the current invitation protocol. I suppose you
> could register a "private" activity with the server and then send a token
> to the invitee. Making this up as an example, not really well thought :)
>
>
>> Also, I still don't like using 1 server and having everything else depend
>> on that 1 server. The server would most likely have to process a lot of
>> traffic.
>> Would it be possible to use a peer to peer connection with web sockets?
>> Browsers don't support this, with reason. But if sugar's core is used, it
>> should be possible.
>>
>
> Did you investigate WebRTC? If nothing else I suspect it would allow to
> exchange data between peers. I'm not sure if it provides any facility that
> we could use to share presence information, i.e. a shared
> buddies+activiities list. That's the really hard problem to solve if you
> want fully p2p communication.
>
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