Emit/Broadcast Messages on REST Call in Python With Flask and Socket.IO - python-2.7

Question

Background
The purpose of this project is to create a SMS based kill switch for a program I have running locally. The plan is to create web socket connection between the local program and an app hosted on Heroku. Using Twilio, receiving and SMS will trigger a POST request to this app. If it comes from a number on my whitelist, the application should send a command to the local program to shut down.
Problem
What can I do to find a reference to the namespace so that I can broadcast a message to all connected clients from a POST request?
Right now I am simply creating a new web socket client, connecting it and sending the message, because I can't seem to figure out how to get access to the namespace object in a way that I can call an emit or broadcast.
Server Code
from gevent import monkey
from flask import Flask, Response, render_template, request
from socketio import socketio_manage
from socketio.namespace import BaseNamespace
from socketio.mixins import BroadcastMixin
from time import time
import twilio.twiml
from socketIO_client import SocketIO #only necessary because of the hack solution
import socketIO_client
monkey.patch_all()
application = Flask(__name__)
application.debug = True
application.config['PORT'] = 5000
# White list
callers = {
"[phone]": "John Smith"
}
# Part of 'hack' solution
stop_namespace = None
socketIO = None
# Part of 'hack' solution
def on_connect(*args):
global stop_namespace
stop_namespace = socketIO.define(StopNamespace, '/chat')
# Part of 'hack' solution
class StopNamespace(socketIO_client.BaseNamespace):
def on_connect(self):
self.emit("join", 'server#email.com')
print '[Connected]'
class ChatNamespace(BaseNamespace, BroadcastMixin):
stats = {
"people" : []
}
def initialize(self):
self.logger = application.logger
self.log("Socketio session started")
def log(self, message):
self.logger.info("[{0}] {1}".format(self.socket.sessid, message))
def report_stats(self):
self.broadcast_event("stats",self.stats)
def recv_connect(self):
self.log("New connection")
def recv_disconnect(self):
self.log("Client disconnected")
if self.session.has_key("email"):
email = self.session['email']
self.broadcast_event_not_me("debug", "%s left" % email)
self.stats["people"] = filter(lambda e : e != email, self.stats["people"])
self.report_stats()
def on_join(self, email):
self.log("%s joined chat" % email)
self.session['email'] = email
if not email in self.stats["people"]:
self.stats["people"].append(email)
self.report_stats()
return True, email
def on_message(self, message):
message_data = {
"sender" : self.session["email"],
"content" : message,
"sent" : time()*1000 #ms
}
self.broadcast_event_not_me("message",{ "sender" : self.session["email"], "content" : message})
return True, message_data
#application.route('/stop', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def stop():
'''Right here SHOULD simply be Namespace.broadcast("stop") or something.'''
global socketIO
if socketIO == None or not socketIO.connected:
socketIO = SocketIO('http://0.0.0.0:5000')
socketIO.on('connect', on_connect)
global stop_namespace
if stop_namespace == None:
stop_namespace = socketIO.define(StopNamespace, '/chat')
stop_namespace.emit("join", 'server#bayhill.com')
stop_namespace.emit('message', 'STOP')
return "Stop being processed."
#application.route('/', methods=['GET'])
def landing():
return "This is Stop App"
#application.route('/socket.io/<path:remaining>')
def socketio(remaining):
try:
socketio_manage(request.environ, {'/chat': ChatNamespace}, request)
except:
application.logger.error("Exception while handling socketio connection",
exc_info=True)
return Response()
I borrowed code heavily from this project chatzilla which is admittedly pretty different because I am not really working with a browser.
Perhaps Socketio was a bad choice for web sockets and I should have used Tornado, but this seemed like it would work well and this set up helped me easily separate the REST and web socket pieces

Answer 1

I just use Flask-SocketIO for that.
from gevent import monkey
monkey.patch_all()
from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.socketio import SocketIO
app = Flask(__name__)
socketio = SocketIO(app)
#app.route('/trigger')
def trigger():
socketio.emit('response',
{'data': 'someone triggered me'},
namespace='/global')
return 'message sent via websocket'
if __name__ == '__main__':
socketio.run(app)