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Websocket handler for the gevent pywsgi server, a Python network library

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Download-URL: https://www.gitlab.com/noppo/gevent-websocket
Description: ================
gevent-websocket
================

`gevent-websocket`_ is a WebSocket library for the gevent_ networking library.

Features include:

- Integration on both socket level or using an abstract interface.
- RPC and PubSub framework using `WAMP`_ (WebSocket Application
Messaging Protocol).
- Easily extendible using a simple WebSocket protocol plugin API


::

from geventwebsocket import WebSocketServer, WebSocketApplication, Resource

class EchoApplication(WebSocketApplication):
def on_open(self):
print "Connection opened"

def on_message(self, message):
self.ws.send(message)

def on_close(self, reason):
print reason

WebSocketServer(
('', 8000),
Resource({'/': EchoApplication})
).serve_forever()

or a low level implementation::

from gevent import pywsgi
from geventwebsocket.handler import WebSocketHandler

def websocket_app(environ, start_response):
if environ["PATH_INFO"] == '/echo':
ws = environ["wsgi.websocket"]
message = ws.receive()
ws.send(message)

server = pywsgi.WSGIServer(("", 8000), websocket_app,
handler_class=WebSocketHandler)
server.serve_forever()

More examples can be found in the ``examples`` directory. Hopefully more
documentation will be available soon.

Installation
------------

The easiest way to install gevent-websocket is directly from PyPi_ using pip or
setuptools by running the commands below::

$ pip install gevent-websocket


Gunicorn Worker
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Using Gunicorn it is even more easy to start a server. Only the
`websocket_app` from the previous example is required to start the server.
Start Gunicorn using the following command and worker class to enable WebSocket
funtionality for the application.

::

gunicorn -k "geventwebsocket.gunicorn.workers.GeventWebSocketWorker" wsgi:websocket_app

Performance
^^^^^^^^^^^

`gevent-websocket`_ is pretty fast, but can be accelerated further by
installing `wsaccel <https://github.com/methane/wsaccel>`_ and `ujson` or `simplejson`::

$ pip install wsaccel ujson

`gevent-websocket`_ automatically detects ``wsaccell`` and uses the Cython
implementation for UTF8 validation and later also frame masking and
demasking.

Get in touch
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Get in touch on IRC #gevent on Freenode or on the Gevent `mailinglist
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gevent>`_. Issues can be created
on `Bitbucket <https://bitbucket.org/Jeffrey/gevent-websocket/issues?status=new&status=open>`_.

.. _WAMP: http://www.wamp.ws
.. _gevent-websocket: http://www.bitbucket.org/Jeffrey/gevent-websocket/
.. _gevent: http://www.gevent.org/
.. _Jeffrey Gelens: http://www.gelens.org/
.. _PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gevent-websocket/
.. _repository: http://www.bitbucket.org/Jeffrey/gevent-websocket/
.. _RFC6455: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6455/?include_text=1

Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
Classifier: Topic :: Internet
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

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