'''
Handlers for the Streaming API:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Using-the-API/Streaming-API.md
'''
import json
import logging
import six
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class MalformedEventError(Exception):
'''Raised when the server-sent event stream is malformed.'''
pass
class StreamListener(object):
'''Callbacks for the streaming API. Create a subclass, override the on_xxx
methods for the kinds of events you're interested in, then pass an instance
of your subclass to Mastodon.user_stream(), Mastodon.public_stream(), or
Mastodon.hashtag_stream().'''
def on_update(self, status):
'''A new status has appeared! 'status' is the parsed JSON dictionary
describing the status.'''
pass
def on_notification(self, notification):
'''A new notification. 'notification' is the parsed JSON dictionary
describing the notification.'''
pass
def on_delete(self, status_id):
'''A status has been deleted. status_id is the status' integer ID.'''
pass
def handle_heartbeat(self):
'''The server has sent us a keep-alive message. This callback may be
useful to carry out periodic housekeeping tasks, or just to confirm
that the connection is still open.'''
def handle_stream(self, lines):
'''
Handles a stream of events from the Mastodon server. When each event
is received, the corresponding .on_[name]() method is called.
lines: an iterable of lines of bytes sent by the Mastodon server, as
returned by requests.Response.iter_lines().
'''
event = {}
for raw_line in lines:
try:
line = raw_line.decode('utf-8')
except UnicodeDecodeError as err:
six.raise_from(
MalformedEventError("Malformed UTF-8", line),
err
)
if line.startswith(':'):
self.handle_heartbeat()
elif line == '':
# end of event
self._despatch(event)
event = {}
else:
key, value = line.split(': ', 1)
# According to the MDN spec, repeating the 'data' key
# represents a newline(!)
if key in event:
event[key] += '\n' + value
else:
event[key] = value
# end of stream
if event:
log.warn("outstanding partial event at end of stream: %s", event)
def _despatch(self, event):
try:
name = event['event']
data = event['data']
payload = json.loads(data)
except KeyError as err:
six.raise_from(
MalformedEventError('Missing field', err.args[0], event),
err
)
except ValueError as err:
# py2: plain ValueError
# py3: json.JSONDecodeError, a subclass of ValueError
six.raise_from(
MalformedEventError('Bad JSON', data),
err
)
handler_name = 'on_' + name
try:
handler = getattr(self, handler_name)
except AttributeError:
log.warn("Unhandled event '%s'", name)
else:
# TODO: allow handlers to return/raise to stop streaming cleanly
handler(payload)