WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
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Autobahn|Python is a subproject of Autobahn and provides open-source implementations of
for Python 3.7+ and running on Twisted and asyncio.
You can use Autobahn|Python to create clients and servers in Python speaking just plain WebSocket or WAMP.
WebSocket allows bidirectional real-time messaging on the Web and beyond, while WAMP adds real-time application communication on top of WebSocket.
WAMP provides asynchronous Remote Procedure Calls and Publish & Subscribe for applications in one protocol running over WebSocket. WAMP is a routed protocol, so you need a WAMP Router to connect your Autobahn|Python based clients. We provide Crossbar.io, but there are other options as well.
Note
Autobahn|Python up to version v19.11.2 supported Python 2 and 3.4+, and up to version v20.7.1 supported Python 3.5+, and up to version v21.2.1 supported Python 3.6+.
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To give you a first impression, here are two examples. We have lot more in the repo.
Here is a simple WebSocket Echo Server that will echo back any WebSocket message received:
from autobahn.twisted.websocket import WebSocketServerProtocol
# or: from autobahn.asyncio.websocket import WebSocketServerProtocol
class MyServerProtocol(WebSocketServerProtocol):
def onConnect(self, request):
print("Client connecting: {}".format(request.peer))
def onOpen(self):
print("WebSocket connection open.")
def onMessage(self, payload, isBinary):
if isBinary:
print("Binary message received: {} bytes".format(len(payload)))
else:
print("Text message received: {}".format(payload.decode('utf8')))
# echo back message verbatim
self.sendMessage(payload, isBinary)
def onClose(self, wasClean, code, reason):
print("WebSocket connection closed: {}".format(reason))
To actually run above server protocol, you need some lines of boilerplate.
WAMP Application ComponentHere is a WAMP Application Component that performs all four types of actions that WAMP provides:
from autobahn.twisted.wamp import ApplicationSession
# or: from autobahn.asyncio.wamp import ApplicationSession
class MyComponent(ApplicationSession):
@inlineCallbacks
def onJoin(self, details):
# 1. subscribe to a topic so we receive events
def onevent(msg):
print("Got event: {}".format(msg))
yield self.subscribe(onevent, 'com.myapp.hello')
# 2. publish an event to a topic
self.publish('com.myapp.hello', 'Hello, world!')
# 3. register a procedure for remote calling
def add2(x, y):
return x + y
self.register(add2, 'com.myapp.add2')
# 4. call a remote procedure
res = yield self.call('com.myapp.add2', 2, 3)
print("Got result: {}".format(res))
Above code will work on Twisted and asyncio by changing a single line (the base class of MyComponent
). To actually run above application component, you need some lines of boilerplate and a WAMP Router.
Autobahn runs on both Twisted and asyncio. To select the respective netoworking framework, install flavor:
asyncio
: Install asyncio (when on Python 2, otherwise it's included in the standard library already) and asyncio support in Autobahntwisted
: Install Twisted and Twisted support in Autobahnaccelerate
: Install WebSocket acceleration - Only use on CPython - not on PyPy (which is faster natively)compress
: Install (non-standard) WebSocket compressors bzip2 and snappy (standard deflate based WebSocket compression is already included in the base install)Autobahn supports running over TLS (for WebSocket and all WAMP transports) as well as WAMP-cryposign authentication.
To install use this flavor:
encryption
: Installs TLS and WAMP-cryptosign dependenciesAutobahn also supports WAMP-SCRAM authentication. To install:
scram
: Installs WAMP-SCRAM dependencies> This is NOT yet complete - ALPHA!
Autobahn contains NVX, a network accelerator library that provides SIMD accelerated native vector code for WebSocket (XOR masking) and UTF-8 validation.
NVX lives in namespace autobahn.nvx and currently requires a x86-86 CPU with at least SSE2 and makes use of SSE4.1 if available. The code is written using vector instrinsics, should compile with both GCC and Clang,and interfaces with Python using CFFI, and hence runs fast on PyPy.
serialization
: To install additional WAMP serializers: CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON and FlatbuffersAbove is for advanced uses. In general we recommend to use CBOR where you can, and JSON (from the standard library) otherwise.
To install Autobahn with all available serializers:
pip install autobahn[serializers]
or (development install)
pip install -e .[serializers]
Further, to speed up JSON on CPython using ujson
, set the environment variable:
Warning
Using ujson
(on both CPython and PyPy) will break the ability of Autobahn to transport and translate binary application payloads in WAMP transparently. This ability depends on features of the regular JSON standard library module not available on ujson
.
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