Subject of the issue

I want to create/delete the group and add/remove multiple users to that group using CLI.

Is this a bug report of a feature request?

Feature request

Your environment

Server-side

Your own setup:

• platform = Windows server 2012
• version of tinode server, e.g. 0.15.2-rc3
• database backend = MySQL

Client-side

• [x] TinodeWeb/tinodejs: javascript client
  • Browser make and version.
• [x] tn-cli
  • Python version 2.7
• [x] Chatbot
  • Python version 2.7
• Version of the client, e.g. 0.15.7

tinode version v0.16.5-rc1

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x70 pc=0xaf8bd1]

goroutine 1645 [running]:
main.(*Cluster).Route(0xc000074c80, 0xc0002a18c0, 0xc0002b5b13, 0x0, 0x0)
	/Users/mike/golang/poizon/duims/cluster.go:411 +0x51
reflect.Value.call(0xc0000be780, 0xc0000bc650, 0x13, 0xd608d2, 0x4, 0xc0001b3f08, 0x3, 0x3, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
	/Users/mike/.gvm/gos/go1.14.1/src/reflect/value.go:460 +0x8ab
reflect.Value.Call(0xc0000be780, 0xc0000bc650, 0x13, 0xc0001ed708, 0x3, 0x3, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
	/Users/mike/.gvm/gos/go1.14.1/src/reflect/value.go:321 +0xb4
net/rpc.(*service).call(0xc0000c1bc0, 0xc000074050, 0xc0001900c8, 0xc0001900f0, 0xc00010e380, 0xc0001d3240, 0xbbf1a0, 0xc0002a18c0, 0x16, 0xbb21e0, ...)
	/Users/mike/.gvm/gos/go1.14.1/src/net/rpc/server.go:377 +0x17f
created by net/rpc.(*Server).ServeCodec
	/Users/mike/.gvm/gos/go1.14.1/src/net/rpc/server.go:474 +0x42b

meesage err:

panic: interface conversion: interface {} is []uint8, not *main.ServerComMessage

goroutine 218 [running]:
main.(*Session).rpcWriteLoop(0xc000456140)
	/Users/mike/golang/poizon/duims/cluster.go:764 +0x60e
created by main.(*Cluster).Master
	/Users/mike/golang/poizon/duims/cluster.go:363 +0x46f
2020/04/14 20:41:21 Server v0.16:/data/tinode/duims-linux:undef; pid 6511; 4 process(es)

The project looks impressing but I can not understand some things.

Yesterday I installed Android application on 2 telephones (user1, user2) but still can not find out how both telephones can chat.

First of all I was trying to find "user2" from first phone. I searched by username, by the 6 character code that appears in section "security", by the code that starts with "usr" and looks like this - usrUig6RtjGtH. I was not able to find the second user. I was trying it on both phones. I got message saying "Topic not found".

Today in some way (I really didn't understand how) I found "user1" in phone 2. Sent a message to "user1". User1 got my message but can not read it. Over the conversation appeared message "No access to new messages" and below "Not available". I tried to tap the screen to see possible options but nothing appeared. After some time message that says that there is no access to new messages disappeared and I was able to send a message. When I did it, the same happened for "user1" - "no access to new messages". When I return to the conversatons list, I see "You have no chats" message. I go to "find" and under "phone contacts" I see the disappeared conversation. I open the conversation, send a message. Second user gets it, however conversation's not appear in the conversations list. User have to go to contacts to see the conversation.

Conversation periodically appears in the conversations list and then disappears again and is accessible only via contacts section. Conversations periodically are blocke with message "No access to new messages".

Online status and push notifications don't work correctly.

User1 access the app, then closes the app; phone screen is off. Some 3 minutes user2 still sees that user1 is online. When user2 sends a message to the user1 during this time, there is no push notification at all and user 1 can not know that he has new messages because phone screen is off.

When user closes the app or phone's screen if off, "online" status should disappear immediately.

Sometimes push notification arrive but there is no sound and I can not understand the pattern how notifications work in Tinode.

The name of received file in push notification looks uggly. It should display a thubnail of received image ir just "image", "file" as it works in all messengers, but not he file name.

Create a group. Add 1 user. Send a message. In my phone everything ok, but in the phone of added users, there s a mark "not found" below the received group message.

2020/10/14 21:55:15 cluster: stop msg received - multi sid usrF6DZPtYyirM-node-02
2020/10/14 21:55:15 cluster: session proxy closed usrF6DZPtYyirM-node-02
panic: runtime error: index out of range [0] with length 0

goroutine 229 [running]:
main.(*Topic).clusterWriteLoop(0xc0005d1d40)
	/Users/mike/golang/poizon/duinfr/dewu-chat/server/cluster.go:1137 +0xa62
created by main.(*Topic).addProxiedSession
	/Users/mike/golang/poizon/duinfr/dewu-chat/server/topic.go:3125 +0xb03

I redeploy the tinode app container and lose all my users. Auth error 401. Existing user (database isn't deleted and container still exists and is used) can be re-registered. I think it refresh the database during update / (re-)deploy?

Is there a way to keep the existing data / user during tinode update / redeploy?

Hello, Gene

I have question regarding purpose of access control on P2P topic. So what is the purpose of it anyway?

The reason why I ask this question is because I found that the purpose stated in documentation is somewhat contradict with the implementation written on code. So with this question I would like to validate what I found because I think it is very fundamental.

In documentation (see here) I found that the purpose of it is for managing presence + banning user from initiating or continuing P2P conversation. So if there are user1 & user2 which have P2P connection, then after sometime user2 would like to block message from user1, then user2 would be just only need to remove “W” permission from user1.

But based on current implementation it is not possible to achieve that purpose. The reason is in current implementation it is not possible to change others permission on P2P topic, it is just for setting user own permission for filtering the data retrieved by user itself (which I personally think is somewhat useless on this context).

So in above case, user2 would only able to manage its own permission, so does with user1, so they cannot block each other in case they want to do it.

So which purpose is true? Managing the P2P connection or just for filtering data retrieved from the context? Or maybe you have another design decision?

Thanks a lot, Gene.

Update topics data in globals.hub.topics

Two users have subscribed to each other. One of them updates the name in the desc field. Its subscriber receives a udp message and requests user data. In response, it receives an irrelevant name.

Your environment

Server-side

• version of Tinode server [v0.18.5]
• database backend rethinkdb
• cluster

Steps to reproduce

1. subscribe

pbx.ClientMsg{
	Message: &pbx.ClientMsg_Sub{
		Sub: &pbx.ClientSub{
			Id:       "sub topic",
			Topic:    "USER_1_ID",
			GetQuery: &pbx.GetQuery{What: "desc"},
		},
	},
}

pbx.ClientMsg{
	Message: &pbx.ClientMsg_Sub{
		Sub: &pbx.ClientSub{
			Id:       "sub topic",
			Topic:    "USER_2_ID",
			GetQuery: &pbx.GetQuery{What: "desc"},
		},
	},
}

2. user 2 update name

pbx.ClientMsg{
	Message: &pbx.ClientMsg_Set{
		Set: &pbx.ClientSet{
			Topic: "me",
			Query: &pbx.SetQuery{Desc: &pbx.SetDesc{Public: []byte("{\"fn\":\"TEST\"}")}},
		},
	},
}

3. user 1 receive UPD message from user 2
4. user 1 request user 2 data

pbx.ClientMsg{
	Message: &pbx.ClientMsg_Get{
		Get: &pbx.ClientGet{
			Id:    "get",
			Query: &pbx.GetQuery{What: "desc"},
			Topic: "USER_2_ID",
		},
	},
}

Expected behaviour

User 1 gets the new name

Actual behaviour

User 1 gets the old name. After resubscribing and get request, user 1 gets a new name.

Research

Local cache not updated https://github.com/tinode/chat/blob/master/server/topic.go#L1947

Almost 80% of the adapter has already been done, only some complex (for me) methods and creating indexes remain. I didn't use the context (context.Background() everywhere), I just didn't figure out how to use them here.

I did steps :

1. download release for mysql
2. ran mysql
3. set the password and username of mysql in tinode.conf file
4. ran ./init-db -data=data.json
5. ran ./tinode
6. visited http://localhost:6060/
7. created two users, and found each other with tag basic:

So far, everything is fine.

BUT when I click the username in the list , something wrong here.

the page show "Unnamed" and "no access to messages".

is there a problem with my installation? Thank u.

there are some logs below:

2019/05/14 16:12:18 Server v0.15:/Users/zeta/workspace/tinode-re/tinode:v0.15.14; db: 'mysql'; pid 96762; 4 process(es)
2019/05/14 16:12:18 Using config from '/Users/zeta/workspace/tinode-re/tinode.conf'
2019/05/14 16:12:18 Running as a standalone server.
2019/05/14 16:12:18 Restricted tags: ['email' 'tel']
2019/05/14 16:12:18 plugins: no active plugins found
2019/05/14 16:12:18 gRPC/1.20.0-dev server is registered at [:6061]
2019/05/14 16:12:18 Serving static content from '/Users/zeta/workspace/tinode-re/static' at '/'
2019/05/14 16:12:18 Large media handling enabled fs
2019/05/14 16:12:18 stats: variables exposed at '/debug/vars'
2019/05/14 16:12:18 Listening for client HTTP connections on [:6060]
2019/05/14 16:12:30 ws: session started phn9EMTMtW8 1
2019/05/14 16:12:30 in: '{"hi":{"id":"110329","ver":"0.15.14","ua":"TinodeWeb/0.15.14 (Chrome/74.0; MacIntel); tinodejs/0.15.14","lang":"zh-CN"}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid=''
2019/05/14 16:12:30 in: '{"login":{"id":"110330","scheme":"token","secret":"fft+fI4+lG+s4excFAABAAEAchKK8Qc+DxwMRQkKZQJeS1lGZXL7rvnProxPOOLCBKQ="}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid=''
2019/05/14 16:12:30 in: '{"sub":{"id":"110331","topic":"me","get":{"what":"sub desc"}}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid='fft-fI4-lG8'
2019/05/14 16:15:29 in: '{"sub":{"id":"110332","topic":"fnd","get":{"what":"sub tags"}}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid='fft-fI4-lG8'
2019/05/14 16:15:31 in: '{"set":{"id":"110333","topic":"fnd","desc":{"public":"ba se i"}}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid='fft-fI4-lG8'
2019/05/14 16:15:31 in: '{"get":{"id":"110334","topic":"fnd","what":"sub"}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid='fft-fI4-lG8'
2019/05/14 16:15:33 in: '{"set":{"id":"110335","topic":"fnd","desc":{"public":"basic"}}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid='fft-fI4-lG8'
2019/05/14 16:15:33 in: '{"get":{"id":"110336","topic":"fnd","what":"sub"}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid='fft-fI4-lG8'
2019/05/14 16:15:36 in: '{"set":{"id":"110337","topic":"fnd","desc":{"public":"basic:zeta"}}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid='fft-fI4-lG8'
2019/05/14 16:15:36 in: '{"get":{"id":"110338","topic":"fnd","what":"sub"}}' ip='[::1]:59732' sid='phn9EMTMtW8' uid='fft-fI4-lG8'

Subject of the issue

My users are stored in my remote application, I can't access and query the database. The only way that I have to authenticate a user is to call a rest API. Is it a way to Tinode to work with an empty user table and use a rest API for users?

Is this a bug report of a feature request?

• [ ] Bug report
• [x] Feature request

Subject of the issue

Firebase Cloud Messaging notifications do not work if the recipient is authorized in a web browser (most often this happens in Chromium browsers)

Is this a bug report of a feature request?

• [x] Bug report

Your environment

Server-side

• [x] Your own setup:
  • Ubuntu
  • version of tinode server: 0.15
  • mysql 5.7

Client-side

• [x] TinodeWeb/tinodejs: javascript client
  • Version: 0.15.12.
• [x] Tindroid: Android app
  • Android API level (22).
  • Emulator: AVD nexus6 api27(Android 8.1 Google APIs); hardware (the actual device): BlackView BW2000 Android 5.1 (api level 22); minSdkVersion 21 targetSdkVersion 27

Steps to reproduce

1. Set the "Service account credentials" on tinode.conf
2. Put the actual vapid key and project id from Firebase Console to frontend (FIREBASE_INIT const)
3. Set up a manifest.json with "gcm_sender_id": "103953800507" (from official docs)
4. Expand roles/permissions of the Firebase service account:

• Editor
• Firebase Admin
• Firebase Service Management Service Agent
• Firebase Admin SDK Administrator Service Agent
• Firebase Rules System
• Service Account Admin
• Service Account Token Creator

5. Allow notifications in browser and write outgoing message into the topic

Expected behaviour

Clients should receive notifications after having resolved them in the browser and received firebase-token in localstorage

Actual behaviour

Notifications work correctly if the client sends a message from the android to the browser (and vice versa). But Firebase does not receive a notification, when client (ua TinodeWeb/0.15:Chrome/71.0) sending an outgoing message (but it's all right on Firefox browser). This issue is mainly seen in Chromium browsers. When

Server-side log

fcm invalid token http error status: 404; reason: app instance has been unregistered; code: registration-token-not-registered; details: Requested entity was not found. fcm push failed http error status: 403; reason: sender id does not match regisration token; code: mismatched-credential; details: The caller does not have permission

Like an idea add the ability to set your wallpaper (bg_messages) to users. Allow to change custom chat background (tindroid, ios). In applications, store background in the user's database.

Describe the solution you'd like

For the { set }client to server message a new field should be added called subs, this field should be an array of objects like: [ { user: "id", mode: "modeValue"}, { user: "id", mode: "modeValue"}, { user: "id", mode: "modeValue"},...]

For the { del } message a new field called users that is an array of objects like: users: ["id", "id", "id"] instead of user: ""

The sub and user fields should be kept so it won't brake existing clients.

Thank you.

https://groups.google.com/g/tinode/c/xYcemyHlQbI

Describe the solution you'd like Add additional ability to search ID by QR code Show and read ID as QR code It is convenient to show the representing ID (user, group or channel) as a QR code, not only as text. Sometimes just showing a QR code with an ID is easier. Than to send a text ID as a result, it is still to be searched for in the search. QRcode will save time and make ID search easier.

Describe alternatives you've considered Authorization by QR code or invite user inside Tinode. Follow links by QR code. Share links of various information .. groups, channels, users etc.

Additional context As an option, add buttons (like an icon) to get a QR code next to the ID text. In the search by ID, add the ability to read from the camera (where you can add as an image) QR code.

If you are not requesting a feature, please post to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tinode instead.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Some users will have problems installing and configuring an ICE Server or probably can't pay for that.

Describe the solution you'd like Embedding the requirements for Audio and Video Calls can be a plus to this application.

Describe alternatives you've considered Another option we can consider is create a separated project under tinode that cover the ICE requirement, with easy integration.

Additional context Audio and Videocalls will be a killer feature, we can work creating a better experience deploying the solution.