sockpot

This is a tcp based multithreaded standalone socket server (with client) intended to be used by higher level packages.

The server also comes with a time-based authentication system to authenticate client and server.

• Download and install the package from git source

    pip install git+https://github.com/aviksama/sockpot.git
  

• Run the server by invoking the following command

    $ sockpot_serve [--host=0.0.0.0] [--port=9900] [--therads=5]
  

• Your client can communicate with the server like following

    >>> from sockpot.client import Connection
    >>> server = Connection(host='localhost', port=9900)
    >>> server.send('Hello', wait_for_reply=True)
    'received: Hello'
  

In order to use your own shared authentication secret use a file named settings.py on your current path and define a variable SECRET_KEY inside the file.

Note that the current handler in the server returns the original message to the client prepended by received:

• the default handler can be overriden by passing args with sockpot_serve like following

    $ sockpot_serve [--path="/home/<my_handler_path>"] [--calee==<my_handler>]
  

The --path variable is set to the PYTHONPATH environment variable. The --callee can be a function or a class method or static method in the form of dotted import path