STMP : Sitty Talky Messaging Protocol

⚠️ Work In Progress

STMP: Sitty Talky Messaging Protocol : A primitive zero-configuration local network protocol purely written in python, originally intended for tinkering with my office mates over LAN! Created as part of my side project Sitty Talky (hence the name).

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Features

• Yet another zero-configuraion protocol
• A unique peer discovery mechanism (not thaat special though!)
• Message broadcasting facility over UDP
• An end-to-end encrypted peer to peer messaging facility over TCP (I mean real end-to-end encryption)
• Support middlewares and message routing
• Support automated peer discovery
• Single threaded, the system can be clubbed with other asyncio eventloops
• STMP uses multicasting for message broadcasting and peer discovery, reducing network traffic.. (me being a responsible citizen)

Requirements

• Python>=3.11 (As it currently uses loop.sock_recvfrom in asyncio the minimum python version requirement is 3.11, Otherwise should go with the loop.run_in_executor based implementation, which I'm not interested in (anyway it will reduce the requirement to py3.7))

• Internally uses Pycryptodome for rsa cryptography.

• Unix (probably) as the system is tested only on Unix (GNU/Linux to be specific)

Installation

STMP package can be installed from PyPi using

pip install stmp-server

Or directly from github using

pip install 'stmp-server @ git+https://github.com/bRuttaZz/stmp.git'

Usage

An example use case is demonstrated bellow. (see example)

Start a listener process

from stmp import STMPServer
from stmp.interfaces import Packet, Peer

app = STMPServer()

@app.route("/test-route")
def test_route_func(packet:Packet):
    print(f"Message got from {packet.headers.user}@{packet.sender} : {packet.data}")

# bind events
@app.on_peer_list_update
def peer_list_change(new_peer:Peer, removed_peers:list[Peer]):
    print(f"Peer list changed : new peer -> {new_peer.user}@{new_peer.ip}" +
                f" : removed peers -> {len(removed_peers)}")
    
if __name__=="__main__":
    print(f"starting server ...")
    app.run()

Send messages to it using another client over a LAN network

from stmp import STMPServer

app = STMPServer()
    
if __name__=="__main__":
    app.broadcast("/test-route", "hi dear")
    # app.send_to_peer() # work only if peers are discovered (uses TCP)

The module architecture