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SignalR core python client: A simple Chat Hub Client

Andrés Baamonde Lozano on February 24, 2019

Intro To end this Sunday I decided to publish a library where I have been working both at work and at home. As soon as i can. I will inc...

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Gustavo Adolfo Morales • Feb 10 '20

i have the following error, when I try to send a msg
DEBUG:SignalRCoreClient:Sending message InvocationMessage: invocation_id 3d582dd3-13c6-45a4-a43e-a67067ca409d, target SendMessage, arguments ['ola']
DEBUG:root:{"type": 1, "headers": {}, "target": "SendMessage", "arguments": ["ola"], "invocationId": "3d582dd3-13c6-45a4-a43e-a67067ca409d", "streamIds": null}

DEBUG:SignalRCoreClient:Message received{"type":7,"error":"Connection closed with an error.","allowReconnect":true}
any ideas? thanks

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Feb 11 '20

have you the same args on your .NET methods?. Same number of agruments and type? 'SendMessage(string message)'

Gustavo Adolfo Morales • Feb 11 '20

yes, even I used the same example here docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/co... with your example chat without auth but I get the same result, so I don't know what could be, the web socket python always close

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Feb 11 '20

If you are using that example you need sending 2 parameters ["user", "message"]. Did you try this?¿

Gustavo Adolfo Morales • Feb 11 '20

yes of course, I did

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Feb 11 '20

Can you show SendMessage declaration and the call for hubconnection.send ¿?. That will be helpful

Gustavo Adolfo Morales • Feb 11 '20

this is the repo github.com/arthas1888/TestSignalRP..., please check it, thanks
attacth image of the error

Gustavo Adolfo Morales • Feb 11 '20 • Edited

I found the error is the next:

Error when processing requests.
System.IO.InvalidDataException: Expected 'streamIds' to be of type Array.
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Protocol.JsonHubProtocol.ParseMessage(ReadOnlySequence`1 input, IInvocationBinder binder)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Protocol.JsonHubProtocol.TryParseMessage(ReadOnlySequence`1& input, IInvocationBinder binder, HubMessage& message)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.HubConnectionHandler`1.DispatchMessagesAsync(HubConnectionContext connection)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.HubConnectionHandler`1.RunHubAsync(HubConnectionContext connection)

and only occurs when I send some msg from signalr client python

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Feb 11 '20

yes, i just fixed it on version 0.8.1 >.< you can download it! my bad :(

Gustavo Adolfo Morales • Feb 11 '20

Ohhh thanks so much, on other hand I found another error, when I use reconnect option, and I shut the web app the python script become crazy, open and close the connection and when run the app again is worst

 dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.HttpConnectionManager[2]
      Removing connection Dzkn8DxPR9X12-Tnvpt3Rg from the list of connections.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.Transports.WebSocketsTransport[4]
      Waiting for the application to finish sending data.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.Transports.WebSocketsTransport[4]
      Waiting for the application to finish sending data.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.Transports.WebSocketsTransport[2]
      Socket closed.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.Transports.WebSocketsTransport[2]
      Socket closed.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.HttpConnectionManager[2]
      Removing connection n9ouQEgkR-s8-GGeAOqsxQ from the list of connections.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.HttpConnectionManager[2]
      Removing connection jk8OfY3v9fcpQnVqfTUKcA from the list of connections.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.Transports.WebSocketsTransport[4]
      Waiting for the application to finish sending data.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.Transports.WebSocketsTransport[2]
      Socket closed.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.HttpConnectionManager[2]
      Removing connection RM207tkuWjX4QRsFNYJhDQ from the list of connections.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.Transports.WebSocketsTransport[4]
      Waiting for the application to finish sending data.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.Transports.WebSocketsTransport[2]
      Socket closed.
dbug: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Connections.Internal.HttpConnectionManager[2]
      Removing connection S28Oe86KWmo_2O4KvmJf7A from the list of connections.

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Feb 11 '20

hmm, I'll check it later. I have a lot of issues/features pending related to the reconnection. I will code them on the following days.

Gustavo Adolfo Morales • Feb 11 '20

ok thanks so much

Gustavo Adolfo Morales • Feb 11 '20

I uploaded a new version of this signalR client including improves in re-connections, please check it and if you look everything good you can update your library, thanks
the link github.com/arthas1888/TestSignalRP...

Samer Abbas • Mar 18 '19

Great work!
One question, if I want to store the json data coming in through hub_connection.on("ReceiveMessage", print), in a txt file, how would I do that?

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Mar 19 '19

Yes, you can, 'print' is only the callback function. If you create a function like this:

import uuid
import json
def save_message(msg):
    with open(f"{uuid.uuid4()}.json",'w+') as fh:
        fh.write(json.dumps(msg))

Then you only need to replace 'print' on the callback register function:

hub_connection.on("ReceiveMessage", save_message)

This changes will save data passed trhoung signalr

ddua123 • Mar 22 '23

Getting this error- raise TypeError(f'Object of type {o.class.name} '
f'is not JSON serializable')
E TypeError: Object of type WebSocketService is not JSON serializable
Please let me know how to correct it?

Samer Abbas • Mar 19 '19

Thank you so much!

a-kanaan • Nov 12 '19

any idea why I am receving handshake error

DEBUG:SignalRCoreClient:-- web socket error --
Handshake status 400 Bad Request
ERROR:SignalRCoreClient:Handshake status 400 Bad Request

server_url = input_with_default('Enter your server url(default: {0}): ', "ws://mypc.domin.com:4500/faces")

'faces' is the hub name
endpoints.MapHub("faces");

without 'faces' it returns OK

thank you

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Nov 12 '19

Hi,

When you connect to a websocket. Previously, you negotiated the connection at mypc.domin.com:4500/faces/negotiate with a POST request. The response of that request will result a connection id that is passed on querystring of the ws://mypc.domin.com:4500/faces request.

If you are not sure that you are connecting to your hub. Try to override on your hub the following method:

public override async Task OnConnectedAsync ()

a-kanaan • Nov 14 '19

all the time I was testing using IIS hosted hub, but I tested now running from Visual Studio, and I got my python code working fetching the info from the hub. the issue seems related to IIS. when testing again using IIS hub, I am getting again the handshake error

a-kanaan • Nov 14 '19

thank you Andrés Baamonde Lozano for your reply

curl -XPOST mypc.domain.com:4500/faces/negotiate -H 'Content-Length:0'
{"connectionId":"4Qwmg1Q1jsGN-5-gGpmbPw","availableTransports":[{"transport":"ServerSentEvents","transferFormats":["Text"]},{"transport":"LongPolling","transferFormats":["Text","Binary"]}]}

but I am when using the sample code to have python code connected to the Hub I am getting the following error:
DEBUG:SignalRCoreClient:Handler registered started broadcast
DEBUG:SignalRCoreClient:Connection started
DEBUG:root:start url:ws://mypc.domain.com:4500/faces
DEBUG:SignalRCoreClient:-- web socket error --
Handshake status 400 Bad Request
ERROR:SignalRCoreClient:Handshake status 400 Bad Request
DEBUG:SignalRCoreClient:-- web socket close --

any idea please if I have missed something?

Dhwani Choubisa • Jan 27 '20

Hi Team,

I am using python client for websocket connection in my test.
when I try to make websocket connection on my local Kubernetes environment it works fine but the same thing is not working on QA environment, throws handshakeError

Only difference I can see in Developer(asp .Net) code is as below

.withURL(url),
{skipNegotiation: True,
Transport: HttpTransportType. webSocket}

Can you please help me, how can I pass the same parameter in my python code

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Feb 16 '20

hi!, now at version 0.8.4 you can skip negotiation (included at options dictionary). Take a look to "skip negotiation" section mandrewcito.github.io/signalrcore/

Dhwani Choubisa • Feb 18 '20

Thank you so much!! I really appreciate your effort.
let me test this and will keep you posted.

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Feb 9 '20

Negotiate at this moment is not skippable, i will think on that option thank you! ( i will ad it to my task list)

Samer Abbas • May 1 '19

I am trying to make a service of this chat example, which will run at boot up using systemd but it fails with import: not found on all the imports in the program.

How can I make it execute as a service?

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • May 17 '19

Have you venv? if answer is yes try to execute with full path to your python venv´s interpreter.

Sebastian Eberl • Apr 6 '21

Hello! I have the following problem:
On the server side I have defined a hub method -> Subscribe(long[] ids)
I wanted to call this method with hub_connection.send("Subscribe", [2312, 12312])
But json transforming the decimal value automatically into strings, so I defined a new method with Subscribe1(string[] ids) and calling it with hub_connection.send("Subscribe", ["2312", "12312"]) but again the it says: InvalidDataException: Error binding arguments. Make sure that the types of the provided values match the types of the hub method being invoked
Do you have any Ideas?

Samer Abbas • May 9 '19

How would I go about reconnecting in case of websocket disconnect?

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • May 17 '19

On disconnect event is only logged, but HubConnection inherits from websocket.WebSocketApp you can search a solution for you problem in this library. Now i have free time to work in library again, so asap i try to fix this issue. Here is an issue related github.com/websocket-client/websoc...

Samer Abbas • May 31 '19

I have looked at the link. The only thing I see is to add run_forever, but you already have that in base_hub_connection.

run_forever seems to work when network cable is disconnected but it only tries to reconnect for approx 1 minute, and it also gives a websocket error after 1 min.

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Jun 3 '19

This weekend i was working on it, during this week. I will update library with "ondisconnected" method to configure reconnection. I tried to do that simplest way. I will explain the implementation on a post, to see if someone gives me feedback and improve that feature.

a-kanaan • Nov 8 '19

thank you very much for your effort you put on this.

is it ok to use it for commercial apps?
I noticed that the package does not support https?

Andrés Baamonde Lozano • Nov 12 '19

I supports https on the latest version(github.com/mandrewcito/signalrcore...) and yes you can use it! any colaboration is welcomed :D

a-kanaan • Nov 14 '19

thank you Andrés Baamonde Lozano.