Welcome to wsrpc-aiohttp’s documentation!

wsrpc-aiohttp it’s library for writing live web applications with websockets.

Table Of Contents

• Quick start
  • Browser client
  • Python client
    • How it works
• Introduction
  • Overview
  • Socket instance
  • Routes
    • Function based routes
    • Class based routes
  • Client to server calls
  • Server to client calls
• Signals
• API Reference

Features

• Two-way RPC

  • Initiating call client function from server side.

  • Calling the server method from the client.

  • Asynchronous connection protocol. Server or client can calls multiple methods with unpredictable ordering of answers.

• Transparent transferring any exceptions from a client side to the server side and vise versa.

• The JS frontend-library are well done for usage without any modification.

• Multiple executors:

  • Fully asynchronous server-side functions.

  • Thread-based websocket handler for writing synchronous code (for synchronous database drivers etc.)

• Protected server-side methods (starts with underline never will be call from clients-side directly)

• If ujson is installed messages will be serialize/deserialize with it.

• Introspection with signals

Installation

Installation with pip:

pip install wsrpc-aiohttp

Installation from git:

# via pip
pip install https://github.com/wsrpc/wsrpc-aiohttp/archive/master.zip

# manually
git clone https://github.com/wsrpc/wsrpc-aiohttp.git
cd wsrpc-aiohttp
python setup.py install

Development

Clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/wsrpc/wsrpc-aiohttp.git
cd wsrpc-aiohttp

Create a new virtualenv for wsrpc-aiohttp:

virtualenv -p python3.5 env

Install all requirements for wsrpc-aiohttp:

env/bin/pip install -e '.[develop]'

Thanks for contributing

• @mosquito (author)