mopidy-asyncio-client 3.0.1

Async Mopidy client using JSON/RPC Websocket interface

mopidy-asyncio-client

Async Mopidy client using JSON/RPC Websocket interface.

mopidy_async_client.MopidyClient() generates a Python interface which maps the Mopidy core API methods and events. For the connection it uses the websocket_client package. The major version of mopidy-asyncio-client follows the major Mopidy version number, so mopidy-asyncio-client v3.y.z supports API version 3.x.

By default, the client tries to connect for a couple of times, if the websocket connection is lost (the default is 5 times). However this can be configured and also set to try forever.

Callback functions can be bound to all events sent by Mopidy.

Forked from

• mopidy-async-client
• mopidy-json-client

Usage

mopidy-asyncio-client provides the main class MopidyClient, which manages the connection to and communication with a remote (or local) Mopidy server. Use the bind() method to subscribe to Mopidy events:

import asyncio
import logging

from mopidy_asyncio_client import MopidyClient


logging.basicConfig()
logging.getLogger('mopidy_asyncio_client').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)


async def playback_started_handler(data):
    """Callback function, called when the playback started."""
    print(data)


async def all_events_handler(event, data):
    """Callback function; catch-all function."""
    print(event, data)


async def main_context_manager():

    async with MopidyClient(host='some_ip') as mopidy:

        mopidy.bind('track_playback_started', playback_started_handler)
        mopidy.bind('*', all_events_handler)

        # Your program's logic:
        await mopidy.playback.play()
        while True:
            await asyncio.sleep(1)


async def main_plain():

    mopidy = await MopidyClient().connect()

    mopidy.bind('track_playback_started', playback_started_handler)
    mopidy.bind('*', all_events_handler)

    # Your program's logic:
    await mopidy.playback.play()
    while True:
        await asyncio.sleep(1)

    await mopidy.disconnect()  # close connection implicit


# Either ...
asyncio.run(main_context_manager())
# ... or
asyncio.run(main_plain())

Parse results

You can specify parse_results=True as a parameter to MopidyClient() and get Mopidy objects instead of JSON dictionaries returned. To get this to work, you need to install mopidy locally, so that mopidy.models can be imported.

>>> async with MopidyClient() as mopidy:
...     res = await mopidy.tracklist.get_tracks()
...     print(res)

[{'__model__': 'Track',
  'uri': 'file:///home/xxx/Music/audio.ogg',
  'name': 'audio.ogg',
  'date': '2021-01-01',
  'length': 123456}]

>>> async with MopidyClient(parse_results=True) as mopidy:
...     res = await mopidy.tracklist.get_tracks()
...     print(res)

[Track(
    date='2021-01-01',
    length=123456,
    name='audio.ogg',
    uri='file:///home/xxx/Music/audio.ogg')]

Installation

pip install mopidy-asyncio-client

and for upgrading an existing installation:

pip install --upgrade mopidy-asyncio-client

Change from mopidy-async-client to mopidy-asyncio-client

Here are the most important changes to help you upgrading from mopidy-async-client. A list with all changes can be found in CHANGES.md.

Incompatible changes

If you upgrade from mopidy-async-client, please watch out for these incompatible changes:

• The package name changed to mopidy-asyncio-client, so the import statements have to be updated.

• mopidy-async-client.MopidyClient() is called with a url parameter. This parameter is replaced by the new keyword arguments hostname='localhost' and port=6680. The uri is then built automatically.

• mopidy-async-client.MopidyClient has a listener property. This property was renamed to the (more appropriate) eventhandler property, but at the same time MopidyClient has gained the following three methods to deal with callback functions:

  • bind()
  • unbind()
  • clear()

  These have the same signatures as the old methods. To update simply replace MopidyClient().listener.bind|unbind|clear with MopidyClient().bind|unbind|clear.

• Deprecated method arguments or methods now raise a DeprecationWarning. The following functions are effected:

  • TracklistController.add(tracks): Use the uris parameter.
  • TracklistController.eot_track(): Use the get_eot_tlid() method.
  • TracklistController.next_track(): Use the get_next_tlid() method.
  • TracklistController.previous_track(): Use the get_previous_track() method.
  • PlaybackController.play(tl_track): Use the tlid parameter.

• MopidyListener was renamed to (the more appropriate) MopidyEventHandler. But since it is not exposed, you should not notice it.

Important changes

• MopidyClient() now understands the reconnect_attempts=None keyword parameter; this results in infinite connection attempts.
• The major version number of mopidy-asyncio-client follows the major version number of Mopidy.

Bugs fixed

• MopidyListener.clear() did not reset the bindings property to collections.defaultdict(list), but to {}. Fixed.
• When ResponseMessage parsed a JSON/RPC message, it did not check, if the parameter on_msg_result (property _on_result) is set. Fixed.
• Use module logger instead of logging (3 stray occurrences) throughout.
• Downgrade timeout errors, if a request is not answered in time. (It used to log an exception.)

License

The license was changed from Apache License 2.0 to GPLv3.

Project resources

• PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/mopidy-asyncio-client/
• Source code: https://gitlab.com/sphh/mopidy-asyncio-client/
• Issue tracker: https://gitlab.com/sphh/mopidy-asyncio-client/-/issues/

References

• Mopidy Core API
• websocket_client
• mopidy-json-client
• mopidy-async-client

Copyright of this file

Copyright (C) 2016,2017 Ismael Asensio ([e-mail])
Copyright (C) 2020 svinerus ([e-mail])
Copyright (C) 2021 Stephan Helma

This file is part of mopidy-asyncio-client.

mopidy-asyncio-client is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

mopidy-asyncio-client is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with mopidy-asyncio-client. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Reasons for this fork

I needed unlimited connection attemps for mopidris, a gateway between the MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification and a remotely (or locally) running Mopidy instance. mopidy-async-client is limited to a set number of connection attempts, after which it bails out, so I made a pull request against it, which uses a traditional while: loop to get infinite connection attempts. Unfortunately this was declined by the author with the argument, that a while: loop does not look nice and that he does not like while: loops. Instead the author decided to set the maximum number of attempts to sys.maxsize. True, this is as close to infinite as we can get, but why has Guido given us a while: loop, if we do not use it? (And frankly, this attitude reminds me remarkably to the nonchalant approach leading to the infamous Y2K bug.) BTW for this approach the code needs not be changed, because it was already possible to give a maximum number of attempts to connect.

Since there were other issues, I was not too happy with (see CHANGES.md), I bit the bullet, took the plunge and forked it. I am not too happy about it, because I believe that there are already too many (dead) forks of modules with very similar functionality around. I would be happy, if these two forks will be combined in the future.