Python client for lightstreamer

[femi]

Thanks a lot Gialunca. I found out the issue was a bug in my own code that generated the tokens for the request. really appreciate your help.

[gianluca.finocchiaro]

Hi femi,

thank you for this feedback.

[femi]

Hi Gialunca,

I had an application running this morning, and i noticed that occasionally, the lightstreamer server "Freezes" i.e stops sending back messages, causing a TimeoutError. I can attempt to automatically reconnect back to the server in such cases, but i wanted to get your thoughts, if there is already a way to do this?

Thanks,
Femi

[gianluca.finocchiaro]

Hi Femi,

I confirm that the demo currently does not provide any reconnection mechanism. Therefore, for the moment you should extend the demo with automatic retries.

Regards,
Gianluca

[newguy]

I wonder if someone can answer a very simple and very early question for me, before I start re-learning my forgotten coding skills. I can see that people are somehow using python to connect to IG. I notice that lightstreamer doesn't seem to have a linux version, so I'm wondering if the python is running on linux. I really can't face windows.

[giuseppe.corti]

Server-side Lightstreamer can work on both Linux and Windows systems, and in any other system for which a jvm implementation is available.

On the client-side, we have several client libraries specific to various systems and technologies.
While for Python I confirm that it is available for different OS, including Linux.

[newguy]

On the client-side, we have several client libraries specific to various systems and technologies.
While for Python I confirm that it is available for different OS, including Linux.

Oh? I'm confused, I must have missed it. If there is a .deb that I can install, or if it's in a repository, could you please post a link? My intention is to use python on a linux mint system to connect to IG, who seem to require lightstreamer for streaming data.

[giuseppe.corti]

For the Python language, we do not have an official client library, but you can refer to this project on GitHub, as a starting point for your client-side developments:
https://github.com/Lightstreamer/Lig...-client-python

Hope that helps.
Giuseppe

[newguy]

Yes, thank you. But this implies that you have an official client library for, perhaps, C/C++? Where's that?

[giuseppe.corti]

There are several client libraries available for various technologies: Javascript (Web and NodeJS), JVM (Java Se, Android), Apple (iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS), .NET (.NET PCL, Unity).
You can find them by looking inside our distribution (https://lightstreamer.com/download/#ls71).
But to find out which of these and which versions are supported by IG, you should check their streaming API page.