briar_repl
async python repl cli chat client, to be used with briar-headless:
https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/tree/master/briar-headless
usage:
currently it features:
- contact listing
- contact adding
- contact removing
- contact renaming
- contacts pending list
- contacts display online status
- contacts display unread message count (currently per session only)
- direct chat with contacts
- briar link display
- command help
two modes:
- command mode (blue bottom bar)
- chat mode (green bottom bar)
commands in chat mode are called by pre-pending / so a /back or /exit_chat brings you back to command mode
commands are auto completed thanks to the amazing prompt_toolkit package:
https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
installation:
install via pip:
needs python3.7 or higher:
python3 -m pip install briar_repl
briar-headless.jar (1.2.12 or higher) would need to be available in:
~/.briar/headless/briar-headless.jar
install via flatpak
needs flatpak and flatpak builder, briar-headless is bundled in the flatpak.
build flatpak
with supplied yaml instructions:
flatpak-builder --repo=build/flatpak/repo --install-deps-from=flathub --user --force-clean build/flatpak/build org.briarproject.briar_repl.yaml
build flatpak bundle
creates a flatpak file here: build/briar_repl.flatpak
flatpak build-bundle build/flatpak/repo build/briar_repl.flatpak org.briarproject.briar_repl
install flatpak
install flatpak on current machine
flatpak install --user build/briar_repl.flatpak
run the flatpak
flatpak run org.briarproject.briar_repl