WebSocket Server sending messages periodically in python

Question

I have a tornado web server in python:

import tornado.httpserver
import tornado.websocket
import tornado.ioloop
from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
import tor         


        

Answer 1

You are calling the function in stead of starting a timer. Do this:

threading.Timer(10, self.msg, args =('in timer',)).start()

Answer 2

could those examples help you

Tornado example

also this too Documentation tornado WS

Answer 3

Here's a minimal example using the PeriodicCallback.

import tornado.httpserver
import tornado.websocket
import tornado.ioloop
from tornado.ioloop import PeriodicCallback
import tornado.web

class WSHandler(tornado.websocket.WebSocketHandler):
    def open(self):
        self.callback = PeriodicCallback(self.send_hello, 120)
        self.callback.start()

    def send_hello(self):
        self.write_message('hello')

    def on_message(self, message):
        pass

    def on_close(self):
        self.callback.stop()

application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r'/', WSHandler),
])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    http_server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer(application)
    http_server.listen(8888)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()