qrcode connection string

[totaam]

Issue migrated from trac ticket # 2627

component: core | priority: major | resolution: fixed

2020-03-06 08:00:21: antoine created the issue

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To make it easier to connect with an android client, generate a QR code that opens the html5 client with the correct authentication options, etc

Tested OK with pyqrencode.
There are no RPM packages for it, so this would need to be added too.

[totaam]

2020-07-04 16:41:48: antoine changed status from new to assigned

[totaam]

2020-07-04 16:41:48: antoine commented

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Main difficulty is that the server often does not know its public IP address.
So the qr code can more easily be generated from the client, which must have had a working URI to connect to the server.
That's what we do in r26871.

Still TODO: either figure out a way to call libqrencode using ctypes, or package python-qrencode. (at least: RPM, MSYS2, macos jhbuild..)

[totaam]

2020-07-04 19:28:56: antoine commented

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Updates:

• r26872 ctypes version for when python-qrencode is not installed but libqrencode is
• r26873 + r26878 libqrencode for macos
• r26881 packaging for macos
• r26876 + r26877 libqrencode for win32
• r26879 locate library on all platforms
• r27798 + r27800 win32 packaging fix
• r27802 add python-qrencode to macos moduleset

Done and tested.