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chatmail-core/deltachat-rpc-client
bjoern ee6b9075aa slightly nicer and shorter QR and invite codes (#7390)
- sort garbage to the beginning, readable text to the end
- instead of `%20`, make use of `+` to encode spaces
- shorter invite links and smaller QR codes by truncation of the names

the truncation of the name uses chars() which does not respect grapheme clusters, so
that last character may be wrong. not sure if there is a nice and easy
alternative, but maybe it's good engoug - the real, full name will come
over the wire (exiting truncate() truncates on word boundaries, which is
maybe too soft here - names may be long, depending on the language, and
not contain any space)

moreover, this resolves the "name too long" issue from
https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/7015

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Co-authored-by: Hocuri <hocuri@gmx.de>
2025-11-04 22:01:24 +01:00
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Delta Chat RPC python client

RPC client connects to standalone Delta Chat RPC server deltachat-rpc-server and provides asynchronous interface to it.

Getting started

To use Delta Chat RPC client, first build a deltachat-rpc-server with cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server or download a prebuilt release. Install it anywhere in your PATH.

Create a virtual environment if you don't have one already and activate it.

$ python -m venv env
$ . env/bin/activate

Install deltachat-rpc-client from source:

$ cd deltachat-rpc-client
$ pip install .

Testing

  1. Build deltachat-rpc-server with cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server.
  2. Install tox pip install -U tox
  3. Run CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=nine.testrun.org PATH="../target/debug:$PATH" tox.

Additional arguments to tox are passed to pytest, e.g. tox -- -s does not capture test output.

Using in REPL

Setup a development environment:

$ tox --devenv env
$ . env/bin/activate
$ python
>>> from deltachat_rpc_client import *
>>> rpc = Rpc()
>>> rpc.start()
>>> dc = DeltaChat(rpc)
>>> system_info = dc.get_system_info()
>>> system_info["level"]
'awesome'
>>> rpc.close()