Created new chat table in scheme.sql, Added chat.py with 3 methods (incomplete)

web_server/blueprints/chat.py

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+from flask import Blueprint
+from blueprints.utils import login_required
+from database.database import Database
+
+chat_bp = Blueprint("chat", __name__)
+
+@login_required
+def chat():
+    """
+    Works with react, takes the chat entered by a logged in user and stores in database
+    """
+    
+
+    return {}
+
+
+def get_all_chat():
+    """
+    Returns a dictionary to be passed to the server.
+    
+    Output structure in the following format: `{(chatter, message), ...}` for all chats.
+
+    Rans once when a user first logs into a stream
+    """
+
+    # Connect to the database
+    db = Database()
+    cursor = db.create_connection()
+    
+    # Returns list of tuples: (chatter_id, message)
+    all_chats = cursor.execute("""SELECT ?, ? FROM chat
+                                  ORDER BY ?;""", ("chatter_id", "message", "time_sent")).fetchall()
+    
+    # Create JSON output of chat_history to pass through NGINX proxy
+    chat_history = {}
+    for chat in all_chats:
+        chat_history[chat[0]] = chat[1]
+
+    # Pass the chat history to the proxy
+    return chat_history
+
+def get_recent_chat():
+    """
+    Run periodically to return new chat messages on a stream a user has already loaded in to.
+    
+    
+    """
+    return {}