A modern and efficient OSC Client/Server implementation
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OSCPy
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A modern implementation of OSC for python2/3.
What is OSC.
OpenSoundControl is an UDP based network protocol, that is designed for fast dispatching of time-sensitive messages, as the name suggests, it was designed as a replacement for MIDI, but applies well to other situations. The protocol is simple to use, OSC addresses look like http URLs, and accept various basic types, such as string, float, int, etc. You can think of it basically as an http POST, with less overhead.
You can learn more about OSC on OpenSoundControl.org
Goals
- python2.7/3.6+ compatibility (can be relaxed more on the python3 side if needed, but nothing before 2.7 will be supported)
- fast
- easy to use
- robust (returns meaningful errors in case of malformed messages, always do the right thing on correct messages, and by default intercept+log the exceptions raised by callbacks)
- separation of concerns (message parsing vs communication)
- sync and async compatibility (threads, asyncio, trio…)
- clean and easy to read code
Features
- serialize and parse OSC data types/Messages/Bundles
- a thread based udp server to open sockets (INET or UNIX) and bind callbacks on osc addresses on them
- a simple client
Install
pip install oscpy
Usage
Server (thread)
from oscpy.server import OSCThreadServer
from time import sleep
def callback(*values):
print("got values: {}".format(values))
osc = OSCThreadServer() # See sources for all the arguments
# You can also use an \*nix socket path here
sock = osc.listen(address='0.0.0.0', port=8000, default=True)
osc.bind(b'/address', callback)
sleep(1000)
osc.stop() # Stop the default socket
osc.stop_all() # Stop all sockets
# Here the server is still alive, one might call osc.listen() again
osc.terminate_server() # Request the handler thread to stop looping
osc.join_server() # Wait for the handler thread to finish pending tasks and exit
or you can use the decorator API.
Server (thread)
from oscpy.server import OSCThreadServer
from time import sleep
osc = OSCThreadServer()
sock = osc.listen(address='0.0.0.0', port=8000, default=True)
@osc.address(b'/address')
def callback(*values):
print("got values: {}".format(values))
sleep(1000)
osc.stop()
Servers are also client, in the sense they can send messages and answer to messages from other servers
from oscpy.server import OSCThreadServer
from time import sleep
osc_1 = OSCThreadServer()
osc_1.listen(default=True)
@osc_1.address(b'/ping')
def ping(*values):
print("ping called")
if True in values:
cont.append(True)
else:
osc_1.answer(b'/pong')
osc_2 = OSCThreadServer()
osc_2.listen(default=True)
@osc_2.address(b'/pong')
def pong(*values):
print("pong called")
osc_2.answer(b'/ping', [True])
osc_2.send_message(b'/ping', [], *osc_1.getaddress())
timeout = time() + 1
while not cont:
if time() > timeout:
raise OSError('timeout while waiting for success message.')
Server (async) (TODO!)
from oscpy.server import OSCThreadServer
with OSCAsyncServer(port=8000) as OSC:
for address, values in OSC.listen():
if address == b'/example':
print("got {} on /example".format(values))
else:
print("unknown address {}".format(address))
Client
from oscpy.client import OSCClient
address = "127.0.0.1"
port = 8000
osc = OSCClient(address, port)
for i in range(10):
osc.send_message(b'/ping', [i])
Unicode
By default, the server and client take bytes (encoded strings), not unicode
strings, for osc addresses as well as osc strings. However, you can pass an
encoding
parameter to have your strings automatically encoded and decoded by
them, so your callbacks will get unicode strings (unicode in python2, str in
python3).
osc = OSCThreadServer(encoding='utf8')
osc.listen(default=True)
values = []
@osc.address(u'/encoded')
def encoded(*val):
for v in val:
assert not isinstance(v, bytes)
values.append(val)
send_message(
u'/encoded',
[u'hello world', u'ééééé ààààà'],
*osc.getaddress(), encoding='utf8')
(u
literals added here for clarity).
CLI
OSCPy provides an "oscli" util, to help with debugging:
oscli dump
to listen for messages and dump themoscli send
to send messages or bundles to a server
See oscli -h
for more information.
GOTCHAS
None
values are not allowed in serialization- Unix-type sockets must not already exist when you listen() on them
TODO
- real support for timetag (currently only supports optionally dropping late bundles, not delaying those with timetags in the future)
- support for additional argument types
- an asyncio-oriented server implementation
- examples & documentation
Contributing
Check out our contribution guide and feel free to improve OSCPy.
License
OSCPy is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please see the LICENSE.txt file.
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