Merge pull request #30 from wjt/streaming

Support streaming API

3 files changed, 157 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mastodon/Mastodon.py b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
index f3861c2..ee11496 100644
--- a/mastodon/Mastodon.py
+++ b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
@@ -9,10 +9,9 @@ import time
 import random
 import string
 import datetime
-import dateutil.parser
-
-import pytz
 import dateutil
+import dateutil.parser
+from contextlib import closing
 import requests
 
 class Mastodon:
@@ -658,6 +657,37 @@ class Mastodon:
         media_file_description = (file_name, media_file, mime_type)
         return self.__api_request('POST', '/api/v1/media', files = {'file': media_file_description})
 
+    def user_stream(self, listener):
+        """
+        Streams events that are relevant to the authorized user, i.e. home
+        timeline and notifications. 'listener' should be a subclass of
+        StreamListener.
+
+        This method blocks forever, calling callbacks on 'listener' for
+        incoming events.
+        """
+        return self.__stream('/api/v1/streaming/user', listener)
+
+    def public_stream(self, listener):
+        """
+        Streams public events. 'listener' should be a subclass of
+        StreamListener.
+
+        This method blocks forever, calling callbacks on 'listener' for
+        incoming events.
+        """
+        return self.__stream('/api/v1/streaming/public', listener)
+
+    def hashtag_stream(self, tag, listener):
+        """
+        Returns all public statuses for the hashtag 'tag'. 'listener' should be
+        a subclass of StreamListener.
+
+        This method blocks forever, calling callbacks on 'listener' for
+        incoming events.
+        """
+        return self.__stream('/api/v1/streaming/hashtag', listener, params={'tag': tag})
+
     ###
     # Internal helpers, dragons probably
     ###
@@ -790,6 +820,20 @@ class Mastodon:
 
         return response
 
+    def __stream(self, endpoint, listener, params = {}):
+        """
+        Internal streaming API helper.
+        """
+
+        headers = {}
+        if self.access_token != None:
+            headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + self.access_token}
+
+        url = self.api_base_url + endpoint
+        with closing(requests.get(url, headers = headers, data = params, stream = True)) as r:
+            listener.handle_stream(r.iter_lines())
+
+
     def __generate_params(self, params, exclude = []):
         """
         Internal named-parameters-to-dict helper.
diff --git a/mastodon/__init__.py b/mastodon/__init__.py
index 17f63e6..9c8e39b 100644
--- a/mastodon/__init__.py
+++ b/mastodon/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 from mastodon.Mastodon import Mastodon
-__all__ = ['Mastodon']
+from mastodon.streaming import StreamListener, MalformedEventError
+
+__all__ = ['Mastodon', 'StreamListener', 'MalformedEventError']
diff --git a/mastodon/streaming.py b/mastodon/streaming.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3212848
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mastodon/streaming.py
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+'''
+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)
+