socketIO-client 0.6.4

A socket.io client library

socketIO-client

Here is a socket.io client library for Python. You can use it to write test code for your socket.io server.

Please note that this version implements socket.io protocol 1.x, which is not backwards compatible. If you want to communicate using socket.io protocol 0.9 (which is compatible with gevent-socketio), please use socketIO-client 0.5.6.

Installation

Install the package in an isolated environment.

VIRTUAL_ENV=$HOME/.virtualenv

# Prepare isolated environment
virtualenv $VIRTUAL_ENV

# Activate isolated environment
source $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/activate

# Install package
pip install -U socketIO-client

Usage

Activate isolated environment.

VIRTUAL_ENV=$HOME/.virtualenv
source $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/activate

Launch your socket.io server.

# Get package folder
PACKAGE_FOLDER=`python -c "import os, socketIO_client;\
    print(os.path.dirname(socketIO_client.__file__))"`
# Start socket.io server
DEBUG=* node $PACKAGE_FOLDER/tests/serve.js
# Start proxy server in a separate terminal on the same machine
DEBUG=* node $PACKAGE_FOLDER/tests/proxy.js

For debugging information, run these commands first.

import logging
logging.getLogger('requests').setLevel(logging.WARNING)
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

Emit.

from socketIO_client import SocketIO, LoggingNamespace

with SocketIO('localhost', 8000, LoggingNamespace) as socketIO:
    socketIO.emit('aaa')
    socketIO.wait(seconds=1)

Emit with callback.

from socketIO_client import SocketIO, LoggingNamespace

def on_bbb_response(*args):
    print('on_bbb_response', args)

with SocketIO('localhost', 8000, LoggingNamespace) as socketIO:
    socketIO.emit('bbb', {'xxx': 'yyy'}, on_bbb_response)
    socketIO.wait_for_callbacks(seconds=1)

Define events.

from socketIO_client import SocketIO, LoggingNamespace

def on_aaa_response(*args):
    print('on_aaa_response', args)

socketIO = SocketIO('localhost', 8000, LoggingNamespace)
socketIO.on('aaa_response', on_aaa_response)
socketIO.emit('aaa')
socketIO.wait(seconds=1)

Define events in a namespace.

from socketIO_client import SocketIO, BaseNamespace

class Namespace(BaseNamespace):

    def on_aaa_response(self, *args):
        print('on_aaa_response', args)
        self.emit('bbb')

socketIO = SocketIO('localhost', 8000, Namespace)
socketIO.emit('aaa')
socketIO.wait(seconds=1)

Define standard events.

from socketIO_client import SocketIO, BaseNamespace

class Namespace(BaseNamespace):

    def on_connect(self):
        print('[Connected]')

socketIO = SocketIO('localhost', 8000, Namespace)
socketIO.wait(seconds=1)

Define different namespaces on a single socket.

from socketIO_client import SocketIO, BaseNamespace

class ChatNamespace(BaseNamespace):

    def on_aaa_response(self, *args):
        print('on_aaa_response', args)

class NewsNamespace(BaseNamespace):

    def on_aaa_response(self, *args):
        print('on_aaa_response', args)

socketIO = SocketIO('localhost', 8000)
chat_namespace = socketIO.define(ChatNamespace, '/chat')
news_namespace = socketIO.define(NewsNamespace, '/news')

chat_namespace.emit('aaa')
news_namespace.emit('aaa')
socketIO.wait(seconds=1)

Connect via SSL.

from socketIO_client import SocketIO

SocketIO('https://localhost', verify=False)

Specify params, headers, cookies, proxies thanks to the requests library.

from socketIO_client import SocketIO
from base64 import b64encode

SocketIO(
    localhost', 8000,
    params={'q': 'qqq'},
    headers={'Authorization': 'Basic ' + b64encode('username:password')},
    cookies={'a': 'aaa'},
    proxies={'https': 'https://proxy.example.com:8080'})

Wait forever.

from socketIO_client import SocketIO

socketIO = SocketIO('localhost', 8000)
socketIO.wait()

License

This software is available under the MIT License.

Credits

• Guillermo Rauch wrote the socket.io specification.

• Hiroki Ohtani wrote websocket-client.

• rod wrote a prototype for a Python client to a socket.io server.

• Alexandre Bourget wrote gevent-socketio, which is a socket.io server written in Python.

• Paul Kienzle, Zac Lee, Josh VanderLinden, Ian Fitzpatrick, Lucas Klein, Rui Chicoria, Travis Odom, Patrick Huber, Brad Campbell, Daniel, Sean Arietta submitted code to expand support of the socket.io protocol.

• Bernard Pratz, Francis Bull wrote prototypes to support xhr-polling and jsonp-polling.

• Eric Chen, Denis Zinevich, Thiago Hersan, Nayef Copty, Jörgen Karlsson, Branden Ghena, Tim Landscheidt, Matt Porritt suggested ways to make the connection more robust.

• Merlijn van Deen, Frederic Sureau, Marcus Cobden, Drew Hutchison, wuurrd, Adam Kecer, Alex Monk, Vishal P R, John Vandenberg, Thomas Grainger proposed changes that make the library more friendly and practical for you!

0.6.4

• Fixed support for Python 3

• Fixed thread cleanup

0.6.3

• Upgraded to socket.io protocol 1.x for websocket transport

• Added locks to fix concurrency issues with polling transport

• Fixed SSL support

0.6.1

• Upgraded to socket.io protocol 1.x thanks to Sean Arietta and Joe Palmer

0.5.6

• Backported to support requests 0.8.2

0.5.5

• Fixed reconnection in the event of server restart

• Fixed calling on_reconnect() so that it is actually called

• Set default Namespace=None

• Added support for Python 3.4

0.5.3

• Updated wait loop to exit if the client wants to disconnect

• Fixed calling on_connect() so that it is called only once

• Set heartbeat_interval to be half of the heartbeat_timeout

0.5.2

• Replaced secure=True with host=’https://example.com’

• Fixed sending heartbeats thanks to Travis Odom

0.5.1

• Added error handling in the event of websocket timeout

• Fixed sending acknowledgments in custom namespaces thanks to Travis Odom

0.5

• Rewrote library to use coroutines instead of threads to save memory

• Improved connection resilience

• Added support for xhr-polling thanks to Francis Bull

• Added support for jsonp-polling thanks to Bernard Pratz

• Added support for query params and cookies

0.4

• Added support for custom headers and proxies thanks to Rui and Sajal

• Added support for server-side callbacks thanks to Zac Lee

• Added low-level _SocketIO to remove cyclic references

• Merged Channel functionality into BaseNamespace thanks to Alexandre Bourget

0.3

• Added support for secure connections

• Added socketIO.wait()

• Improved exception handling in _RhythmicThread and _ListenerThread

0.2

• Added support for callbacks and channels thanks to Paul Kienzle

• Incorporated suggestions from Josh VanderLinden and Ian Fitzpatrick

0.1

• Wrapped code from StackOverflow

• Added exception handling to destructor in case of connection failure