python-socketio
===============

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Python implementation of the `Socket.IO <https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io>`_
realtime server.

Features
--------

- Fully compatible with the 
  `Javascript <https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io-client>`_,
  `Swift <https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client-swift>`_,
  `C++ <https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client-cpp>`_ and
  `Java <https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client-java>`_ official
  Socket.IO clients, plus any third party clients that comply with the
  Socket.IO specification.
- Compatible with Python 2.7 and Python 3.3+.
- Supports large number of clients even on modest hardware when used with an
  asynchronous server based on `asyncio <https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html>`_
  (`sanic <http://sanic.readthedocs.io/>`_ and `aiohttp <http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/>`_),
  `eventlet <http://eventlet.net/>`_ or `gevent <http://gevent.org/>`_. For
  development and testing, any WSGI compliant multi-threaded server can also be
  used.
- Includes a WSGI middleware that integrates Socket.IO traffic with standard
  WSGI applications.
- Broadcasting of messages to all connected clients, or to subsets of them
  assigned to "rooms".
- Optional support for multiple servers, connected through a messaging queue
  such as Redis or RabbitMQ.
- Send messages to clients from external processes, such as Celery workers or
  auxiliary scripts.
- Event-based architecture implemented with decorators that hides the details
  of the protocol.
- Support for HTTP long-polling and WebSocket transports.
- Support for XHR2 and XHR browsers.
- Support for text and binary messages.
- Support for gzip and deflate HTTP compression.
- Configurable CORS responses, to avoid cross-origin problems with browsers.

Example
-------

The following example application uses the `aiohttp <http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/>`_
framework for asyncio:

.. code:: python

    from aiohttp import web
    import socketio

    sio = socketio.AsyncServer()
    app = web.Application()
    sio.attach(app)

    async def index(request):
        """Serve the client-side application."""
        with open('index.html') as f:
            return web.Response(text=f.read(), content_type='text/html')

    @sio.on('connect', namespace='/chat')
    def connect(sid, environ):
        print("connect ", sid)

    @sio.on('chat message', namespace='/chat')
    async def message(sid, data):
        print("message ", data)
        await sio.emit('reply', room=sid)

    @sio.on('disconnect', namespace='/chat')
    def disconnect(sid):
        print('disconnect ', sid)

    app.router.add_static('/static', 'static')
    app.router.add_get('/', index)

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        web.run_app(app)

And below is a similar example, using Flask to serve the client application.
This example is compatible with Python 2.7 and Python 3.3+:

.. code:: python

    import socketio
    import eventlet
    import eventlet.wsgi
    from flask import Flask, render_template

    sio = socketio.Server()
    app = Flask(__name__)

    @app.route('/')
    def index():
        """Serve the client-side application."""
        return render_template('index.html')

    @sio.on('connect', namespace='/chat')
    def connect(sid, environ):
        print("connect ", sid)

    @sio.on('chat message', namespace='/chat')
    def message(sid, data):
        print("message ", data)
        sio.emit('reply', room=sid)

    @sio.on('disconnect', namespace='/chat')
    def disconnect(sid):
        print('disconnect ', sid)

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        # wrap Flask application with engineio's middleware
        app = socketio.Middleware(sio, app)

        # deploy as an eventlet WSGI server
        eventlet.wsgi.server(eventlet.listen(('', 8000)), app)

Resources
---------

-  `Documentation`_
-  `PyPI`_

.. _Documentation: http://pythonhosted.org/python-socketio
.. _PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-socketio