it may surprise you but there are other languages than python and in these, things like this aren't that simple...
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Alex Monk <[email protected]> wrote: > I've fiddled around with this a bit: > > On my Ubuntu system, I simply got a library: sudo pip install > socketio-client > Then made this Python script: > > --- > from socketIO_client import SocketIO, BaseNamespace > class RecentChangeNamespace(BaseNamespace): > def on_connect(self): > self.emit('subscribe', ['enwiki']) > def on_change(self, data): > print(data) > > socketIO = SocketIO('rcstream.wmflabs.org') # This host seems to be sending > the same example entries at the moment, obviously we should get an actual > RC stream from it or a production host later > socketIO.define(RecentChangeNamespace, '/rc') > socketIO.wait() > --- > And it prints entries to console like this (Python just prints out objects > in a way that kind of looks like JSON): > {u'comment': u'', u'wiki': u'enwiki', u'type': 0, u'title': u'Main Page', > u'timestamp': 1398993841, u'server_script_path': u'/w', u'namespace': 0, > u'server_url': u'http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org', u'length': {u'new': > 585, u'old': 580}, u'user': u'Alice', u'patrolled': True, u'bot': False, > u'id': 9, u'minor': True, u'revision': {u'new': 9, u'old': 8}} > > It's so much nicer. Sorry Petr, I think this is much more suitable than the > mess that is connecting to IRC and parsing everything. I definitely want to > see this replace the IRC feed entirely (with the obvious reasonably long > deprecation period). > > > Alex > > > On 5 May 2014 10:29, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Given the current specifications I can only support this change as >> long as current IRC feed is preserved as IRC is IMHO, as much as evil >> it looks, more suitable for this than WebSockets. >> >> I am not saying that IRC is suitable for this and I know that people >> really wanted to get rid of it or replace it with something better, >> but I just can't see how is this better. >> >> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Am 05.05.2014 07:20, schrieb Jeremy Baron: >> >> On May 4, 2014 10:24 PM, "Ori Livneh" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> an implementation for a recent changes >> >>> stream broadcast via socket.io, an abstraction layer over WebSockets >> that >> >>> also provides long polling as a fallback for older browsers. >> > >> > [...] >> > >> >> How could this work overlap with adding pubsubhubbub support to existing >> >> web RC feeds? (i.e. atom/rss. or for that matter even individual page >> >> history feeds or related changes feeds) >> >> >> >> The only pubsubhubbub bugs I see atm are >> >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=38970%2C30245 >> > >> > There is a Pubsubhubbub implementation in the pipeline, see >> > <https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FPubSubHubbub>. >> It's >> > pretty simple and painless. We plan to have this deployed experimentally >> for >> > wikidata soon, but there is no reason not to roll it out globally. >> > >> > This implementation uses the job queue - which in production means >> redis, but >> > it's pretty generic. >> > >> > As to an RC *stream*: Pubsubhubbub is not really suitable for this, >> since it >> > requires the subscriber to run a public web server. It's really a >> > server-to-server protocol. I'm not too sure about web sockets for this >> either, >> > because the intended recipient is usually not a web browser. But if it >> works, >> > I'd be happy anyway, the UDP+IRC solution sucks. >> > >> > Some years ago, I started to implement an XMPP based RC stream, see >> > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XMLRC>. Have a look and steal >> some >> > ideas :) >> > >> > -- daniel >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
