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Python websocket server command stream (lua client)?

After seeing a video about a youtuber who uses a websocket server to interacte with an entity in a video game (minecraft) video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwKRbsDbxqc&t=25s&ab_channel=Ottomated
I wanted to recreate the same idea, but with some little tweaks:
I wanted the websocket server to be host in python
I wanted to be able to interact without any html or javascript
So I built the websocket server:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import asyncio
import websockets
async def server(websocket, path):
data = await websocket.recv()
while True:
msg = input('type the command: ')
await websocket.send(msg)
start_server = websockets.serve(server, "localhost", 8765)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(start_server)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()
(really simple)
and the client side (in lua):
print('connecting')
local ws, err = http.websocket("ws://localhost:8765")
if not ws then
return printError(err)
ws.close()
end
ws.send("message")
repeat
command = ws.receive()
load(command)()
until command == "stop"
ws.close()
The only thing is that after the first message gets executed by the lua programm, it stops processing the other messages.
I don't know what I did wrong!
Am I doing it the wrong way? or maybe there is a better way?

well i am still learning sockets and improving my server-side skill but it is easy you just need to make it a loop 'while true:' or i prefer a controllable variable 'kim = True
while kim :' then you can make false or true to close or open the loop under certian conditions and i think you need somthing like threads to not block the other clients input
well i didnt study web-server but the problem is as i think its that you only receive one message because its not in a loop so it will excute the code and then close

How to send websocket updates to any connected clients while running a while-True loop?

I have a Python3 program that runs a "while True"-loop until stopped, which occasionally saves data to a MySQL database. I am creating an administrative website, separate from the Python program, where I will be able to observe this data.
I now want to be able to be notified, on the website, when changes have been made to the database. My thought was to set up a websocket connection, so that the Python program can send a message through the socket to all connected clients, i.e. all open browsers, if there has been any changes to the database table.
I have done something similar before, but in that case I had to wait for a websocket connection before the "while True"-loop would start. In the new scenario I want to be able to have multiple website clients at once, and let them connect at any time, as well as disconnect without interrupting the Python programs loop.
This is a simplified version of my previous code, which I now want to update to be able to run both with & without websocket clients.
import asyncio
import websockets
socket_server = websockets.serve(run, "127.0.0.1", 5055)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(socket_server)
console_log("Waiting for socket connection...")
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()
async def run(ws):
while True:
db_has_updated = do_stuff()
if db_has_updated:
await ws.send(data)
I just can't seem to be able to come up with the right search terms to find a solution, so I'm asking here instead.

I figured it out, finally! Here is my solution with a websocket server running in a separate thread from the other logic. I'm probably changing some things to make it neater, but this does everything I need. Feel free to ask any questions.
Be aware that this blocks when messaging all the connected clients. That is the way I needed it to work, but you could always thread/subprocess the logic/data-gen part of the program if you want it to run completely asynchronously.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import asyncio
import websockets
import threading
import time
import random
def gen_data():
print("Generating data...")
time.sleep(3)
data = random.randint(1, 10)
return data
async def send(client, data):
await client.send(data)
async def handler(client, path):
# Register.
print("Websocket Client Connected.", client)
clients.append(client)
while True:
try:
print("ping", client)
pong_waiter = await client.ping()
await pong_waiter
print("pong", client)
time.sleep(3)
except Exception as e:
clients.remove(client)
print("Websocket Client Disconnected", client)
break
clients = []
start_server = websockets.serve(handler, "localhost", 5555)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(start_server)
threading.Thread(target = asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever).start()
print("Socket Server Running. Starting main loop.")
while True:
data = str(gen_data())
message_clients = clients.copy()
for client in message_clients:
print("Sending", data, "to", client)
try:
asyncio.run(send(client, data))
except:
# Clients might have disconnected during the messaging process,
# just ignore that, they will have been removed already.
pass

Asyncronously manage connected clients while continously sending data in Python

I have a server built in Python that uses Sanic and websockets to routinely broadcast data to clients:
#app.websocket("/")
async def websocket(request, ws):
app.ws_clients.add(ws)
await ws.send(json.dumps("hello from climate server!"))
while True:
try:
data = dict()
time_of_reading = time.ctime(time.time())
data['climateData'] = sensor.read_data()
data['systemData'] = get_system_data()
data['timestamp'] = time_of_reading
await broadcast(json.dumps(data))
time.sleep(10) # changing this to asyncio.sleep() causes the msgs to send sporatically
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sensor.clear()
pass
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080, workers=1, debug=False)
and my broadcast function which attempts to send a message, or removes a client from app.ws_clients if there is a ConnectionClosed error:
async def broadcast(message):
for ws in app.ws_clients:
try:
await ws.send(message)
print('attempting data send') # this line runs, but the clients don't receive the messages
except websockets.ConnectionClosed:
clients_to_remove.add(ws)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sensor.clear()
pass
if (len(clients_to_remove) > 0):
await remove_dead_clients(clients_to_remove)
async def remove_dead_clients(clients_to_remove):
for client in clients_to_remove:
app.ws_clients.remove(client)
clients_to_remove.clear()
The client is able to connect just fine, and the server prints that it is trying to broadcast, but no message is ever received by the client.
I am using this broadcast function from another server that I wrote, and it works perfectly there. The difference with that one is that it only sends data when a client requests it. I feel the issue here is that the async cannot handle both continually broadcasting and removing clients simultaneously. I tried changing time.sleep() to asyncio.sleep(), but that only succeeded in successfully sending the messages dozens at a time, and then nothing at all for awhile.
Is there a pattern I could implement that would meet my needs, where I can send messages in an endless loop and also asynchronously manage connected clients?

For anyone that happens to stumble across this in the future - I had forgotten to use the await keyword prior to asyncio.sleep().

Python multiplayer game with websockets: Handling multiple clients

I'm trying to build a multiplayer game (to be precise a Card game) in Python via websockets, but I'm currently failing in the very early steps.
What I'm trying to do:
Clients connect to the websocket, until a certain number is reached
The client sends an input to the server
The server responds to each client separately and simultaneously
What works:
Letting the client connect and storing a websocket per client works as expected, but then I'm a bit stuck.
What I've tried:
client.py
import asyncio
import websockets
import random
def random_name():
return "".join([random.choice("abcdefghijkl") for _ in range(5)])
async def main():
uri = "ws://localhost:1235"
print("Starting...")
async with websockets.connect(uri) as ws:
client_name = random_name()
await ws.send(client_name)
print(await ws.recv()) # server sends :client_name registered
print(await ws.recv()) # server sends: 3 people registered
print(await ws.recv()) # server sends: Waiting for input
inp = input()
await ws.send(inp)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(main())
server.py (very naive approach)
import websockets
import asyncio
clients = []
async def main(ws, *args, **kwargs):
while True:
print(f"Waiting for new connection! {ws}")
client_name = await ws.recv()
clients.append((client_name, ws, ws.remote_address))
await ws.send(f"{client_name} registered on {ws.remote_address}")
if len(clients) >= 3:
registered_clients = ', '.join([c[0] for c in clients])
print(f"3 clients ({registered_clients}) registered")
break
for name, ws_, _ in clients:
await ws_.send(f"3 clients registered ({registered_clients})")
await ws_.send(f"Waiting for input")
for _ in clients:
inp = await ws_.recv()
print(ws_.remote_address, inp)
start_server = websockets.serve(main, "localhost", "1235")
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(start_server)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()
This fails with RuntimeError: cannot call recv while another coroutine is already waiting for the next message. It seems that I cannot wait for the answer of each connected clients individually. Even though not perfect, I thought I can distinguish each client by looking at their remote addresses. For doing so, I modified the main function to
server.py, main function (naive approach)
async def main(ws, *args, **kwargs):
while True:
print(f"Waiting for new connection! {ws}")
client_name = await ws.recv()
clients.append((client_name, ws, ws.remote_address))
await ws.send(f"{client_name} registered on {ws.remote_address}")
if len(clients) >= 3:
registered_clients = ', '.join([c[0] for c in clients])
print(f"3 clients ({registered_clients}) registered")
break
for name, ws_ in clients:
await ws_.send(f"3 clients registered ({registered_clients})")
await ws_.send(f"Waiting for input")
for _ in range(len(clients)):
inp = await ws.recv()
print(ws.remote_address, inp)
This doesn't work neither, cause the loop doesn't break for all connected clients.
My questions:
How can my examples be repaired?
Is the websockets package the right framework for me? Two things let me think of that:
In case of sockets, I can bind one client to the socket instance and directly read from one instance (which it seems I cannot easily do here).
Even though I'm pretty sure, that one can achieve what I want, it seems that there's a lot code involved for doing that (!?)
But somehow I'd like to stick to websockets in general (because of also having the possibility to connect to communicate wit a browser). And sticking to the websockets package in particular, would have the advantage for me to get to know the asyncio module better. But if someone says, that I should rather switch to aiohttp, flask-sockets, tornado etc. I'd like to do so as well.

Sending and receiving frames over the same websocket connection without blocking

Sorry for the long post but I've been poking at this for over a week so I've tried a lot of different stuff. I know Python well enough but I don't have any experience with asyncio or non-blocking functions in Python.
I'm writing an API library/module/package/whatever for a web service that requires a websocket connection. There are many incoming messages to act on, and some control-related (web app level, not websocket control messages) that I need to send on occasion. I can easily receive messages over the connection and act on them. I can send messages, but only in response to received messages because the receive loop is always blocking waiting for messages. I don't want to wait for an incoming messages to process an outgoing one so the script doesn't have to hang on input until a new messages is received. In my struggles to get two-way communication working as desired I discovered I need to use something like Twisted, Tornado, or asyncio but so far every implementation I've tried has failed. Note that the sending has to happen over the same connection. Opening a short-lived connection outside of the receive loop will not work. Here's what I've done so far:
The first iteration of the websocket code was using the websocket-client package. It was very close to the example from the docs:
import websocket
try:
import thread
except ImportError:
import _thread as thread
import time
def on_message(ws, message):
# Send message frames to respective functions
# for sorting, objectification, and processing
def on_error(ws, error):
print(error)
def on_close(ws):
print("### closed ###")
def on_open(ws):
def run(*args):
# Send initial frames required for server to send the desired frames
thread.start_new_thread(run, ())
if __name__ == "__main__":
websocket.enableTrace(True)
ws = websocket.WebSocketApp(buildWebsocketURL()),
on_message = on_message,
on_error = on_error,
on_close = on_close)
ws.on_open = on_open
ws.run_forever()
This blocks any further execution outside of the loop. I tried learning up on the _thread module but I couldn't find any indication that I could "communicate" with the websocket thread from outside. I tried setting up a pub/sub listener function that would forward data to ws.send() from another sender function but it didn't work. No errors or anything, just no indication of any sent messages.
Next I tried the Websockets module. This one seems to be built from the ground up to utilize asyncio. Again, I got a client build that would send initial messages and act on received messages but the progress stopped there:
async def wsconnection():
async with websockets.connect(getWebsocketURL()) as websocket:
while True:
message = await websocket.recv()
if message == '{"type":"broadcaster.ready"}':
subscriptions = getSubscriptions() # Get subscriptions from ident data
logging.info('Sending bookmarks to server as subscription keys')
subscriptionupdate = '{{"type": "subscribe","subscription_keys": ["{0}"],"subscription_scope": "update"}}'.format(
'","'.join(subscriptions))
subscriptioncontent = '{{"subscription_keys": ["{0}"],"subscription_scope": "content","type": "subscribe"}}'.format(
'","'.join(subscriptions))
logging.debug(subscriptioncontent)
await websocket.send(subscriptionupdate)
await websocket.send(subscriptioncontent)
await websocket.send(
'{"type":"message_lobby.read","lobby_id":"1","message_id:"16256829"}')
sortframe(message)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(wsconnection())
I tried the aforementioned pub/sub listener applied here to no avail. Upon reading the docs for this module more thoroughly I tried getting the websocket protocol object (that contains the send() and recv() methods) outside of the loop then creating two coroutines(?), one listening for incoming messages and one listening for and sending outgoing messages. So far I've been completely unable to get the websocket protocol object without running the async with websockets.connect(getWebsocketURL()) as websocket: line within the scope of the wsconnection() function. I tried using websocket = websockets.client.connect() which according to the docs I thought would set the protocol object I need but it doesn't. All of the examples I can find don't seem to reveal any apparent way to structure the websockets sender and receiver in the way I require without extensive knowledge of asyncio.
I also poked around with autobahn with similar code structures as above using both asyncio and Twisted but I came up with all the same problems as above.
So far the closest I've gotten was with the Websockets package above. The docs have an example snippet for a send/recv connection but I can't really read what's going on there as it's all very specific to asyncio. I'm really having trouble wrapping my head around asyncio in general and I think a big problem is it seems to have very rapidly evolved recently so there is a ton of very version-specific information floating around that conflicts. Not good for learning, unfortunately. ~~~~This is what I tried using that example and it connects, receives initial messages, then the connection is lost/closed:
async def producer(message):
print('Sending message')
async def consumer_handler(websocket, path):
while True:
message = await websocket.recv()
await print(message)
await pub.sendMessage('sender', message)
async def producer_handler(websocket, path):
while True:
message = await producer()
await websocket.send(message)
async def wsconnect():
async with websockets.connect(getWebsocketURL()) as websocket:
path = "443"
async def handler(websocket, path):
consumer_task = asyncio.ensure_future(
consumer_handler(websocket, path))
producer_task = asyncio.ensure_future(
producer_handler(websocket, path))
done, pending = await asyncio.wait(
[consumer_task, producer_task],
return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED,
)
for task in pending:
task.cancel()
pub.subscribe(producer, 'sender')
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(wsconnect())
So how do I structure this code to get sending and receiving over the same websocket connection? I also have various API calls to make in the same script while the websocket connection is open which further complicates things.
I'm using Python 3.6.6 and this script is intended to be imported as a module into other scripts so the websocket functionality will need to be wrapped up in a function or class for external calls.

I am in the exact same situation as u. I know that this is a very inelegant solution
because it still isn't full-duplex but i can't seem to find any example on the internet or stackoverflow involving asyncio and the websockets module which i used.
I don't think i completely understand your websockets example (is that server-side or client-side code?) but i'm going to explain my situation and "solution" and maybe that would be usable for you too.
So i have a server main function that has a websocket listening for messages in a loop with recv(). When i send "start" it will start a function that will send data every second to the javascript client in the browser. But while the function is sending data i sometimes want to pause or stop the stream of data from my client be sending a stop message. The problem is that when i use recv() while the data sending has already begun the server stops sending data and only waits for a message. I tried threads,multiprocessing and some other stuff but eventually i came to the hopefully temporarily solution of sending a "pong" message to the server immediately after the client receives a piece of data so that the server continues sending data at the next loop iteration or stop sending data if the "pong" message is "stop" instead for example but yeah this is not real duplex just fast half-duplex...
code on my python "server"
async def start_server(self,websocket,webserver_path):
self.websocket = websocket
self.webserver_path = webserver_path
while True:
command = await self.websocket.recv()
print("received command")
if command == "start":
await self.analyze()
asyncio.sleep(1)
in my analyze function:
for i,row in enumerate(data)
await self.websocket.send(json.dumps(row))
msg = await self.websocket.recv()
if msg == "stop":
self.stopFlag = True
return
await asyncio.sleep(1)
main
start_server = websockets.serve(t.start_server, "127.0.0.1", 5678)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(start_server)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()
code on the javascript client
var ws = new WebSocket("ws://127.0.0.1:5678/");
ws.onmessage = function (event) {
var datapoint = JSON.parse(event.data);
console.log(counter);
counter++;
data.push(datapoint);
if (data.length > 40){
var element = data.shift();
render(data);
}
ws.send("pong");//sending dummy message to let server continue
};
I know it is not THE solution and i hope somebody else provides a better one but since i have the same or very similar problem and there are no other answers i decided to post and i hope it helps.