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# author: oskar.blom@gmail.com
#
# Make sure your gevent version is >= 1.0
import gevent
from gevent.wsgi import WSGIServer
from gevent.queue import Queue
from flask import Flask, Response
import time
# SSE "protocol" is described here: http://mzl.la/UPFyxY
class ServerSentEvent(object):
def __init__(self, data):
self.data = data
self.event = None
self.id = None
self.desc_map = {
self.data : "data",
self.event : "event",
self.id : "id"
}
def encode(self):
if not self.data:
return ""
lines = ["%s: %s" % (v, k)
for k, v in self.desc_map.iteritems() if k]
return "%s\n\n" % "\n".join(lines)
app = Flask(__name__)
subscriptions = []
# Client code consumes like this.
@app.route("/")
def index():
debug_template = """
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Server sent events</h1>
<div id="event"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var eventOutputContainer = document.getElementById("event");
var evtSrc = new EventSource("/subscribe");
evtSrc.onmessage = function(e) {
console.log(e.data);
eventOutputContainer.innerHTML = e.data;
};
</script>
</body>
</html>
"""
return(debug_template)
@app.route("/debug")
def debug():
return "Currently %d subscriptions" % len(subscriptions)
@app.route("/publish")
def publish():
#Dummy data - pick up from request for real data
def notify():
msg = str(time.time())
for sub in subscriptions[:]:
sub.put(msg)
gevent.spawn(notify)
return "OK"
@app.route("/subscribe")
def subscribe():
def gen():
q = Queue()
subscriptions.append(q)
try:
while True:
result = q.get()
ev = ServerSentEvent(str(result))
yield ev.encode()
except GeneratorExit: # Or maybe use flask signals
subscriptions.remove(q)
return Response(gen(), mimetype="text/event-stream")
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.debug = True
server = WSGIServer(("", 5000), app)
server.serve_forever()
# Then visit http://localhost:5000 to subscribe
# and send messages by visiting http://localhost:5000/publish
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