Chat room example

Disclaimer:

This my personal interpretation of a basic chatroom example, with basic API to handle the rooms. Please feel free to add comments or suggestions here

REST API for room management

Rooms

CREATE

• Method: POST
• Endpoint: [API-URL]/rooms/create
• Description: Create a room via API passing JSON name

PARAMS

• name (mandatory)

{
  "name":"Best Room ever"
}

RESPONSE

{
  "name": "Best Room ever",
  "uuid": "xgYENKyyAdOdrSZb5JNMAu1g7iEGlaE77cEEZgaHg3n5dGWaFG2IV0Nru6C1QEAKh2F9CL4I8uxW1CK5ev0g9mnJTHy0pBSrndGg",
  "users": null // list of users in that room
}

---

GET

• Method: GET
• Endpoint: [API-URL]/rooms
• Description: Retrieve all the rooms created

RESPONSE

[
  {
    "name": "Best Room ever",
    "uuid": "xgYENKyyAdOdrSZb5JNMAu1g7iEGlaE77cEEZgaHg3n5dGWaFG2IV0Nru6C1QEAKh2F9CL4I8uxW1CK5ev0g9mnJTHy0pBSrndGg",
    "users": null
  }
]

---

DELETE ROOM

• Method: DELETE
• Endpoint: [API-URL]/rooms/delete/[UUID]
• Description: Delete room by UUID

PARAMS

• Room UUID (mandatory)

RESPONSE

true

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JOIN

• Method: POST
• Endpoint: [API-URL]/rooms/join
• Description: Join the room passing room id and user id

PARAMS

• room (Room UUID | Mandatory)
• user (User ID | Mandatory)

{
  "user":"1",
  "room":"xgYENKyyAdOdrSZb5JNMAu1g7iEGlaE77cEEZgaHg3n5dGWaFG2IV0Nru6C1QEAKh2F9CL4I8uxW1CK5ev0g9mnJTHy0pBSrndGg"
}

RESPONSE

true|false

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Connect to the websocket

ws://localhost:3000/ws/<user-id>

Message object example

{
    "from": "<user-id>",
    "to": "<recipient-user-id>",
    "room": "<room-id>",
    "data": "hello"
}