when we try to send a chat message from the html5 client we now send a send_public_chat_message_request towards bbb-apps

labs/meteor-client/client/views/chat/chat_bar.coffee

@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ Template.chatInput.events
         "fromTime": "1.403794169042E12"
         "fromColor": "0"
       }
-      #Meteor.call 'sendChatMessagetoServer', messageForServer
-      console.log "Sending message to server"
-      alert JSON.stringify messageForServer
-      Meteor.call "addChatToCollection", Session.get("meetingId"), messageForServer
+      console.log "Sending message to server" + messageForServer.message
+      Meteor.call "sendChatMessagetoServer", Session.get("meetingId"), messageForServer
       $('#newMessageInput').val '' # Clear message box

labs/meteor-client/collections/chat.coffee

@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ Meteor.methods
     id = Meteor.Chat.insert(entry)
     console.log "added chat id=[#{id}]:#{messageObject.message}. Chat.size is now
      #{Meteor.Chat.find({meetingId: meetingId}).count()}"
+
+  sendChatMessagetoServer: (meetingId, messageObject) ->
+    Meteor.redisPubSub.publishChatMessage(meetingId, messageObject)
+    Meteor.call "addChatToCollection", meetingId, messageObject

labs/meteor-client/server/redispubsub.coffee

@@ -130,3 +130,19 @@ class Meteor.RedisPubSub
       console.log "err=" + err
       console.log "res=" + res
     )
+
+  publishChatMessage: (meetingId, chatObject) =>
+    console.log "publishing a chat message to bbb-apps"
+    message = {
+      header : {
+        "timestamp": new Date().getTime()
+        "name": "send_public_chat_message_request"
+      }
+      payload: {
+        "message" : chatObject
+        "meeting_id": meetingId
+        "requester_id": chatObject.fromUserID
+      }
+    }
+    console.log "\n\n\n\n" + JSON.stringify (message)
+    @pubClient.publish(Meteor.config.redis.channels.toBBBApps.meeting, JSON.stringify (message))