Added class-based namespaces.

socketio/__init__.py

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 from .middleware import Middleware
+from .namespace import Namespace
 from .base_manager import BaseManager
 from .pubsub_manager import PubSubManager
 from .kombu_manager import KombuManager
 from .redis_manager import RedisManager
 from .server import Server
 
-__all__ = [Middleware, Server, BaseManager, PubSubManager, KombuManager,
-           RedisManager]
+__all__ = [Middleware, Namespace, Server, BaseManager, PubSubManager,
+           KombuManager, RedisManager]

socketio/namespace.py

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import types
+
+
+class Namespace(object):
+    """A container for a set of event handlers for a specific namespace.
+
+    A method of this class named ``on_xxx`` is considered as the event handler
+    for the event ``'xxx'`` in the namespace this class is registered to.
+
+    There are also the following methods available that insert the current
+    namespace automatically when none is given before they call their matching
+    method of the ``Server`` instance:
+    ``emit``, ``send``, ``enter_room``, ``leave_room``, ``close_room``,
+    ``rooms``, ``disconnect``
+
+    Example:
+
+        from socketio import Namespace, Server
+        class ChatNamespace(Namespace):
+            def on_msg(self, sid, msg):
+                # self.server references to the socketio.Server object
+                data = "[%s]: %s" \
+                       % (self.server.environ[sid].get("REMOTE_ADDR"), msg)
+                # Note that we don't pass namespace="/chat" to the emit method.
+                # It is done automatically for us.
+                self.emit("msg", data, skip_sid=sid)
+                return "received your message: %s" % msg
+        sio = socketio.Server()
+        sio.register_namespace("/chat", ChatNamespace)
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, name, server):
+        self.name = name
+        self.server = server
+
+        # wrap methods of Server object
+        def get_wrapped_method(func_name):
+            def wrapped_func(self, *args, **kwargs):
+                """If namespace is None, it is automatically set to this
+                object's one before the original method is called.
+                """
+                if kwargs.get('namespace') is None:
+                    kwargs['namespace'] = self.name
+                return getattr(self.server, func_name)(*args, **kwargs)
+            return types.MethodType(wrapped_func, self)
+        for func_name in ('emit', 'send', 'enter_room', 'leave_room',
+                          'close_room', 'rooms', 'disconnect'):
+            setattr(self, func_name, get_wrapped_method(func_name))
+
+    def _get_handlers(self):
+      """Returns a dict of event names and handlers this namespace provides."""
+      handlers = {}
+      for attr_name in dir(self):
+        if attr_name.startswith('on_'):
+          handlers[attr_name[3:]] = getattr(self, attr_name)
+      return handlers

socketio/server.py

@@ -150,6 +150,20 @@ class Server(object):
             return set_handler
         set_handler(handler)
 
+    def register_namespace(self, name, namespace_class):
+        """Register all handlers of the given ``namespace_class`` under the
+        namespace named by ``name``.
+
+        :param name: The namespace's name. It can be any string.
+        :param namespace_class: The sub class of ``Namespace`` to register
+                                handlers of. Don't pass an instance instead.
+
+        See documentation of ``Namespace`` class for an example.
+        """
+        namespace = namespace_class(name, self)
+        for event, handler in six.iteritems(namespace._get_handlers()):
+            self.on(event, handler=handler, namespace=name)
+
     def emit(self, event, data=None, room=None, skip_sid=None, namespace=None,
              callback=None):
         """Emit a custom event to one or more connected clients.

tests/test_server.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ if six.PY3:
 else:
     import mock
 
+from socketio import namespace
 from socketio import packet
 from socketio import server
 
@@ -45,6 +46,16 @@ class TestServer(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(s.handlers['/']['disconnect'], bar)
         self.assertEqual(s.handlers['/foo']['disconnect'], bar)
 
+    def test_register_namespace(self, eio):
+        class NS(namespace.Namespace):
+            def on_foo(self):
+                self.emit("bar")
+
+        s = server.Server()
+        s.register_namespace('/ns', NS)
+
+        self.assertIsNotNone(s.handlers['/ns'].get('foo'))
+
     def test_on_bad_event_name(self, eio):
         s = server.Server()
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, s.on, 'two-words')