Wirepas Mesh Messaging

This Python wheel contains the generated code to interact with Wirepas Mesh Network through the Gateway to Backend API. It offers an easy way to use the API in Python without the need to build the protobuf files yourself

Installation

Install from PyPi

This package is available from PyPi.

    pip install wirepas-mesh-messaging

From the source

This wheel can be built from source directly. You need to have protobuf compiler installed.

First, .proto files should be compiled

protoc -I backend-apis/gateway_to_backend/protocol_buffers_files/ \
    --python_out=./wirepas_mesh_messaging/proto \
     backend-apis/gateway_to_backend/protocol_buffers_files/*.proto

After that, the wheel can be built using build.

python3 -m build .

Note: When installing the package, protobuf is installed automatically as a dependency. On some environments (such as Alpine) the recommended UPB backend might not available as a binary and the system might use the slower python implementation. To get the UBP backend, you can configure pip to use the source version of protobuf. This way the UPB backend would be built when installing protobuf:

pip install . --no-binary protobuf

Usage example

Create a message to be sent to a Gateway in protobuf format

>>> import wirepas_mesh_messaging as wmm

>>> downlink_message = wmm.SendDataRequest(dest_add=1234, src_ep=10, dst_ep=10, qos=0, payload=bytes.fromhex("0102ABCD"))

# downlink_message.payload can be published on right topic (protobuf formatted)
>>> downlink_message.payload
b'\n\x1e2\x1c\n\x0b\x08\x8e\xac\x9c\xbf\xab\x95\xbd\xf6\xfe\x01\x10\xd2\t\x18\n \n(\x002\x04\x01\x02\xab\xcd'

Parse a Wirepas message received from a Gateway in protobuf format

>>> import wirepas_mesh_messaging as wmm

# payload is the payload received from mqtt (protobuf formatted)
# Let's assume it was created like this on Gateway side:
# wmm.ReceivedDataEvent(gw_id="Gw1", sink_id="sink0", rx_time_ms_epoch=1608644981000, src=1234, dst=1, src_ep=10, dst_ep=10, travel_time_ms=128, qos=1).payload

>>> uplink_message = wmm.ReceivedDataEvent.from_payload(payload)

>>> print(uplink_message)
{'gw_id': 'Gw1', 'sink_id': 'sink0', 'event_id': 12527549978202166391, 'rx_time_ms_epoch': 1608644981000, 'source_address': 1234, 'destination_address': 1, 'source_endpoint': 10, 'destination_endpoint': 10, 'travel_time_ms': 128, 'qos': 1, 'data_payload': None, 'data_size': None, 'hop_count': 0}

Services API documentation

Please refer to the backend apis repository for documentation on the Gateway to Backend API.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.