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THIS DEMO IS NOT WORKING AT ALL, I SPEND 3 DAYS TO FIX ALL PROLEMS AND FOUND OUT IT SEEMS SOME IMPORTANT PARTS ARE MISSING! SO DON"T WASTE YOUR TIME!

Auch macht web.py und Websocket kein Sinn, da es 2 unterschiedliche Techniken sind.

State of webpy-socketio

webpy-socketio inherits from django-socketio. I just make it run on the webpy framewrok.

Introduction

The features provided by webpy-socketio are:

  • A channel subscription and broadcast system that extends Socket.IO allowing WebSockets and events to be partitioned into separate concerns
  • A signals-like event system that abstracts away the various stages of a Socket.IO request
  • Support for out-of-band (non-event) broadcasts
  • The required views, urlpatterns, templatetags and tests for all the above

Installation

Note that if you've never installed gevent, you'll first need to install the libevent development library. You may also need the Python development library if not installed. This can be achieved on Debian based sytems with the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libevent-dev
$ sudo apt-get install python-gevent

Download gevent from http://www.gevent.org/:

$ sudo python setup.py install

You can download webpy-socketio and install it directly from source:

$ python setup.py install

Once installed you can then add webpy_socketio.socketio_urls to your url conf:

urls = (
    ...
)

urls += socketio_urls

The client-side JavaScripts for Socket.IO and its extensions can then be added to any page with the socketio templatetag:

<head>
    <!-- Mako template -->
    <%include file="socketio_scripts.html"/>
    <script>
        var socket = new io.Socket();
        socket.connect();
        // etc
    </script>
</head>

Running

Please see main_app.py in the example directory:

#sample 
import web
from socketio import SocketIOServer
from gevent import monkey 
monkey.patch_all()
from webpy_socketio import *

urls = (
    ...
)

urls += socketio_urls

app = web.application(urls, globals())

SOCKETIO_HOST = ""
SOCKETIO_PORT = 8000

application = app.wsgifunc()

if __name__ == "__main__":

    SocketIOServer((SOCKETIO_HOST, SOCKETIO_PORT), application, resource="socket.io").serve_forever()

Note that the host and port can also configured by defining the following settings in your project's settings module:

  • SOCKETIO_HOST - The host to bind the server to.
  • SOCKETIO_PORT - The numeric port to bind the server to.

Note

On UNIX-like systems, in order for the flashsocket transport fallback to work, root privileges (eg by running the above command with sudo) are required when running the server. This is due to the Flash Policy Server requiring access to a low port (843). This isn't strictly required for everything to work correctly, as the flashsocket transport is only used as one of several fallbacks when WebSockets aren't supported by the browser.

Channels

The WebSocket implemented by gevent-websocket provides two methods for sending data to other clients, socket.send which sends data to the given socket instance, and socket.broadcast which sends data to all socket instances other than itself.

A common requirement for WebSocket based applications is to divide communications up into separate channels. For example a chat site may have multiple chat rooms and rather than using broadcast which would send a chat message to all chat rooms, each room would need a reference to each of the connected sockets so that send can be called on each socket when a new message arrives for that room.

webpy-socketio extends Socket.IO both on the client and server to provide channels that can be subscribed and broadcast to.

To subscribe to a channel client-side in JavaScript use the socket.subscribe method:

var socket = new io.Socket();
socket.connect();
socket.on('connect', function() {
    socket.subscribe('my channel');
});

Once the socket is subscribed to a channel, you can then broadcast to the channel server-side in Python using the socket.broadcast_channel method:

socket.broadcast_channel("my message")

Broadcast and Send Methods

Each server-side socket instance contains a handful of methods for sending data. As mentioned above, the first two methods are implemented by gevent-socketio:

  • socket.send(message) - Sends the given message directly to the socket.
  • socket.broadcast(message) - Sends the given message to all other sockets.

The remaning methods are implemented by webpy-socketio.

  • socket.broadcast_channel(message, channel=None) - Sends the given message to all other sockets that are subscribed to the given channel. If no channel is given, all channels that the socket is subscribed to are used. the socket.
  • socket.send_and_broadcast(message) - Shortcut that sends the message to all sockects, including the sender.
  • socket.send_and_broadcast_channel(message, channel=None) - Shortcut that sends the message to all sockects for the given channel, including the sender.

The following methods can be imported directly from webpy_socketio for broadcasting and sending out-of-band (eg: not in response to a socket event). These methods map directly to the same methods on a socket instance, and in each case an appropriate connected socket will be chosen to use for sending the message, and the webpy_socketio.NoSocket exception will be raised if no connected sockets exist.

  • webpy_socketio.broadcast(message)
  • webpy_socketio.broadcast_channel(message, channel)
  • webpy_socketio.send(session_id, message)

Note that with the send method, the socket is identified by its session ID, accessible via socket.session.session_id. This is a WebSocket session ID and should not be confused with a Webpy session ID which is different.

Events

The webpy_socketio.events module provides a handful of events that can be subscribed to, very much like connecting receiver functions to webpy signals. Each of these events are raised throughout the relevant stages of a Socket.IO request. These events represent the main approach for implementing your socket handling logic when using webpy-socketio.

Events are subscribed to by applying each event as a decorator to your event handler functions:

from webpy_socketio.events import on_message

@on_message
def my_message_handler(request, socket, context, message):
    ...

Where should these event handlers live in your webpy project? They can go anywhere, so long as they're imported by webpy at startup time.

Each event handler takes at least three arguments: the current webpy request, the Socket.IO socket the event occurred for, and a context, which is simply a dictionary that can be used to persist variables across all events throughout the life-cycle of a single WebSocket connection.

  • on_connect(request, socket, context) - occurs once when the WebSocket connection is first established.
  • on_message(request, socket, context, message) - occurs every time data is sent to the WebSocket. Takes an extra message argument which contains the data sent.
  • on_subscribe(request, socket, context, channel) - occurs when a channel is subscribed to. Takes an extra channel argument which contains the channel subscribed to.
  • on_unsubscribe(request, socket, context, channel) - occurs when a channel is unsubscribed from. Takes an extra channel argument which contains the channel unsubscribed from.
  • on_error(request, socket, context, exception) - occurs when an error is raised. Takes an extra exception argument which contains the exception for the error.
  • on_disconnect(request, socket, context) - occurs once when the WebSocket disconnects.
  • on_finish(request, socket, context) - occurs once when the Socket.IO request is finished.

Event handlers can be defined anywhere so long as they end up being imported. Consider adding them to their own module that gets imported by your urlconf, or even adding them to your views module since they're conceptually similar to views.

Binding Events to Channels

All events other than the on_connect event can also be bound to particular channels by passing a channel argument to the event decorator. The channel argument can contain a regular expression pattern used to match again multiple channels of similar function.

For example, suppose you implemented a chat site with multiple rooms. WebSockets would be the basis for users communicating within each chat room, however you may want to use them elsewhere throughout the site for different purposes, perhaps for a real-time admin dashboard. In this case there would be two distinct WebSocket uses, with the chat rooms each requiring their own individual channels.

Suppose each chat room user subscribes to a channel client-side using the room's ID:

var socket = new io.Socket();
var roomID = 42;
socket.connect();
socket.on('connect', function() {
    socket.subscribe('room-' + roomID);
});

Then server-side the different message handlers are bound to each type of channel:

@on_message(channel="dashboard")
def my_dashboard_handler(request, socket, context, message):
    ...

@on_message(channel="^room-")
def my_chat_handler(request, socket, context, message):
    ...

Logging

The following setting can be used to configure logging:

  • SOCKETIO_MESSAGE_LOG_FORMAT - A format string used for logging each message sent via a socket. The string is formatted using interpolation with a dictionary. The dictionary contains all the keys found in webpy's web.ctx.env, as well as TIME and MESSAGE keys which contain the time of the message and the message contents respectively. Set this setting to None to disable message logging.

Chat Demo

The "hello world" of WebSocket applications is naturally the chat room. As such webpy-socketio comes with a demo chat application that provides examples of the different events, channel and broadcasting features available. The demo can be found in the example directory of the webpy_socketio package.

Working with nginx

  • Recomplie nginx with nginx_tcp_proxy_module::

    $ sudo nginx -V:

    For my system (Debian squeeze), I see below:

    $ configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx/ --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp --user=nginx --group=nginx --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-file-aio --with-ipv6
  • Download ngnix source from http://nginx.org/en/download.html
  • Download nginx_tcp_proxy_module from https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_tcp_proxy_module
  • Unzip nginx_tcp_proxy_module.zip
  • Do follow:

    $ cd nginx-src-dir
    $ patch -p1 < /path/to/nginx_tcp_proxy_module/tcp.patch
    $ ./configure before_configure_arguments_with_nginx_-V --add-module=/path/to/nginx_tcp_proxy_module
    $ make
    $ sudo make install
  • Edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

    tcp {
      upstream websocket {
      # This is the local port running on your app
      # server, which is inaccessible from outside
      server 127.0.0.1:8000;
      #check interval=3000 rise=2 fall=5 timeout=1000;
      }
    } 
    http{
          ...
  • If not exists, add /etc/nginx/proxy_params:

    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  • Touch /etc/nginx/conf.d/your_app.conf:

    upstream socketio_server {
       # For a TCP configuration:
       # Replace 8000 with app servers port
       server 127.0.0.1:8000 fail_timeout=0;
    
       # For a Unix Socket
       # server unix:/tmp/yourappserver.sock fail_timeout=0;
       }
    
    server {
       listen 80;
       client_max_body_size 4G;
       #server_name _;
       server_name your_server_name;
       access_log /var/log/your_app_access.log;
       error_log /var/log/your_app_error.log;
       keepalive_timeout 5;
    
       # path for static files
       location /static {
           root   /path/to/static/files;
       }
    
       location / {
           include proxy_params;
           proxy_pass http://socketio_server;
       }
      }

reference: http://readthedocs.org/docs/django-socketio/en/latest/#installation

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