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REST framework with WebSockets support

Project description

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REST framework with WebSockets support

This library represents as a flexible toolkit for building Web APIs, which based on the Autobahn.ws and asyncio packages. Use the opportunities of WebSockets for communication between clients and servers, build APIs like in popular frameworks (Django REST, Flask, etc.) with enough simplicity, flexibility and transparency. Develop with a pleasure!

Features
-----
- Routing
- Views (function and method-based)
- Authentication (using JSON Web Token)
- Customizing behaviour of your application through settings file
- Compressing messages for minimize of transmitted traffic (if your browser support)
- SSL support

Requirements
-----
- Python >= 3.4.0
- Autobahn.ws >= 0.12.0

License
-----
The aiorest-ws published under BSD license. For more details read [LICENSE](https://github.com/Relrin/aiorest-ws/blob/master/LICENSE) file.

Documentation
-----
The latest documentation for the project is available [there](http://aiorest-ws.readthedocs.org/).

Contributing
-----
Read [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/Relrin/aiorest-ws/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) file for more information.

Roadmap (by priority) to releases:
-----
v1.1:
- Compatible with most common ORMs
- SQLAlchemy ORM [in progress]
- Django ORM
- Filters support over querysets

v1.2:
- Improve scalability of aiorest-ws (balancer instance or HAProxy?)
- Notification support

v1.3:
- Web browsable API (similar on swagger?)

v1.4:
- Classes and functions for testing APIs
- Clients for Python, JavaScript

Getting started
---------------
#### Client (JavaScript)
```javascript
var ws = null;
var isopen = false;

window.onload = function()
{
ws = new WebSocket("ws://127.0.0.1:8080");
ws.onopen = function() {
console.log("Connected!");
isopen = true;
};

ws.onmessage = function(e) {
console.log("Result: " + e.data);
};

ws.onclose = function(e) {
console.log("Connection closed.");
ws = null;
isopen = false;
}
};

function sendOnStaticURL() {
if (isopen) {
ws.send(JSON.stringify({'method': 'GET', 'url': '/hello'}));
} else {
console.log("Connection not opened.")
}
}
```

#### Client (Python)
```python
import asyncio
import json

from autobahn.asyncio.websocket import WebSocketClientProtocol, \
WebSocketClientFactory


class HelloClientProtocol(WebSocketClientProtocol):

def onOpen(self):
request = {'method': 'GET', 'url': '/hello'}
self.sendMessage(json.dumps(request).encode('utf8'))

def onMessage(self, payload, isBinary):
message = payload.decode('utf8')
print(message)


if __name__ == '__main__':
factory = WebSocketClientFactory("ws://localhost:8080", debug=False)
factory.protocol = HelloClientProtocol

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
coro = loop.create_connection(factory, '127.0.0.1', 8080)
loop.run_until_complete(coro)
loop.run_forever()
loop.close()
```

#### Server
```python
from aiorest_ws.app import Application
from aiorest_ws.routers import SimpleRouter
from aiorest_ws.views import MethodBasedView


class HelloWorld(MethodBasedView):
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
return "Hello, world!"


router = SimpleRouter()
router.register('/hello', HelloWorld, 'GET')


if __name__ == '__main__':
app = Application()
app.run(host='127.0.0.1', port=8080, router=router)
```

Also you can look more examples [there](https://github.com/Relrin/aiorest-ws/tree/master/examples).

Running server with SSL
-----

Aiorest-ws framework support running server with SSL. Just append ```certificate``` and ```key``` options to the ```Application``` constructor:

```python
# WebSockets will be available on wss://127.0.0.1:8080/api
app = Application(certificate='path/to/my.crt', key='path/to/my.key')
app.run(host='127.0.0.1', port=8080, path='api', router=router)
```

If you don't have any certificates and keys, but want to run the server with SSL, then generate self-signed certificate via OpenSSL:

```bash
openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
openssl x509 -in server.crt -out server.pem
```

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