Add support for disabling chat. Closes #472 (#799)

core/chat/server.go

@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ func (s *server) Listen() {
 		case c := <-s.delCh:
 			s.removeClient(c)
 		case msg := <-s.sendAllCh:
+			if data.GetChatDisabled() {
+				break
+			}
+
 			if !msg.Empty() {
 				// set defaults before sending msg to anywhere
 				msg.SetDefaults()

core/data/config.go

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ const s3StorageEnabledKey = "s3_storage_enabled"
 const s3StorageConfigKey = "s3_storage_config"
 const videoLatencyLevel = "video_latency_level"
 const videoStreamOutputVariantsKey = "video_stream_output_variants"
+const chatDisabledKey = "chat_disabled"
 
 // GetExtraPageBodyContent will return the user-supplied body content.
 func GetExtraPageBodyContent() string {
@@ -408,6 +409,21 @@ func SetStreamOutputVariants(variants []models.StreamOutputVariant) error {
 	return _datastore.Save(configEntry)
 }
 
+// SetChatDisabled will disable chat if set to true.
+func SetChatDisabled(disabled bool) error {
+	return _datastore.SetBool(chatDisabledKey, disabled)
+}
+
+// GetChatDisabled will return if chat is disabled.
+func GetChatDisabled() bool {
+	disabled, err := _datastore.GetBool(chatDisabledKey)
+	if err == nil {
+		return disabled
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
+
 // VerifySettings will perform a sanity check for specific settings values.
 func VerifySettings() error {
 	if GetStreamKey() == "" {