I am dealing with client-server project. I am working on a feature that giving the option for the user to send a message to multiple users.
I have 2 functions:
def broadcast(self, TalkingCurrentClient, message):
WhomMessageClient = self.ChoosingClientToSendMessage(message)
if WhomMessageClient is not None:
##################################
if WhomMessageClient is not isinstance(WhomMessageClient, list):
##################################
if TalkingCurrentClient == WhomMessageClient:
SerializedDataToBytes(WhomMessageClient, message)
if TalkingCurrentClient != WhomMessageClient:
SerializedDataToBytes(WhomMessageClient, message)
#############################################################
elif WhomMessageClient is isinstance(WhomMessageClient, list):
for ClientToSend in WhomMessageClient:
if ClientToSend != TalkingCurrentClient:
SerializedDataToBytes(ClientToSend, message)
else:
SerializedDataToBytes(ClientToSend, message)
#############################################################
else:
for client in self.clientsList:
if client != TalkingCurrentClient:
SerializedDataToBytes(client, message)
else:
SerializedDataToBytes(client, message)
This function supposed to accept a single name of user or a list of users, depends of the user choice. The function get that from the second function calls
ChoosingClientToSendMessage(message)
But, when I am choosing single client (user) WhomMessageClient get the right client from function 2, but when I am sending a list of clients I get a None Value.
Here is function 2:
def ChoosingClientToSendMessage(self, message):
if message.recipient is not None and message.recipient != 'None':
if isinstance(message.recipient, list):
for ClientToAddToList in message.recipient:
ChoosingMultipleClientToSend = []
index = self.ConnectionsList.index(ClientToAddToList)
ChoosingMultipleClientToSend.append(self.clientsList[index])
if ChoosingMultipleClientToSend:
return ChoosingMultipleClientToSend
################################################################
else:
index = self.ConnectionsList.index(message.recipient)
ClientThatWhomMessage = self.clientsList[index]
print(ClientThatWhomMessage)
if ClientThatWhomMessage:
return ClientThatWhomMessage
return None