CoAPthon

CoAPthon is a python library to the CoAP protocol compliant with the RFC. Branch is available for the Twisted framework.

Citation

If you use CoAPthon software in your research, please cite:

G.Tanganelli, C. Vallati, E.Mingozzi, "CoAPthon: Easy Development of CoAP-based IoT Applications with Python", IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2015)

Software available at https://github.com/Tanganelli/CoAPthon

What is implemented

• CoAP server
• CoAP client
• CoAP to CoAP Forwarding proxy
• CoAP to CoAP Reverse Proxy
• HTTP to CoAP Proxy
• Observe feature
• CoRE Link Format parsing
• Multicast server discovery
• Blockwise feature

TODO

• CoAP to HTTP Proxy
• DTLS support

Install instructions

To install the library you need the pip program:

Debian/Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip

Fedora/CentOS

$ sudo yum install python-pip

Archlinux

$ sudo pacman -S python-pip

Once you have the pip program issue the following commands:

$ cd CoAPthon
$ python setup.py sdist
$ sudo pip install dist/CoAPthon-4.0.0.tar.gz -r requirements.txt

The library is installed in the default path as well as the bins that you can use and customize. In order to start the example CoAP server issue:

$ coapserver.py

To uninstall:

$ sudo pip uninstall CoAPthon

Install instructions on Arduino Yun

Log through ssh to the Yun and issue the following:

# opkg update #updates the available packages list
# opkg install distribute #it contains the easy_install command line tool
# opkg install python-openssl #adds ssl support to python
# easy_install pip #installs pip

Then you need to modify the setup.py and comment the line conditionalExtensions=getExtensions(). Then :

# python setup.py build_py build_scripts install --skip-build

User Guide

CoAP server

In order to implements a CoAP server the basic class must be extended. Moreover the server must add some resources.

from coapthon.server.coap import CoAP
from exampleresources import BasicResource

class CoAPServer(CoAP):
    def __init__(self, host, port):
        CoAP.__init__(self, (host, port))
        self.add_resource('basic/', BasicResource())

def main():
    server = CoAPServer("127.0.0.1", 5683)
    try:
        server.listen(10)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print "Server Shutdown"
        server.close()
        print "Exiting..."

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Resources are extended from the class resource.Resource. Simple examples can be found in example_resource.py.

from coapthon.resources.resource import Resource

class BasicResource(Resource):
    def __init__(self, name="BasicResource", coap_server=None):
        super(BasicResource, self).__init__(name, coap_server, visible=True,
                                            observable=True, allow_children=True)
        self.payload = "Basic Resource"

    def render_GET(self, request):
        return self

    def render_PUT(self, request):
        self.payload = request.payload
        return self

    def render_POST(self, request):
        res = BasicResource()
        res.location_query = request.uri_query
        res.payload = request.payload
        return res

    def render_DELETE(self, request):
        return True

Build the documentation

The documentation is based on the Sphinx framework. In order to build the documentation issue the following:

$ pip install Sphinx
$ cd CoAPthon/docs
$ make html

The documentation will be build in CoAPthon/docs/build/html. Let's start from index.html to have an overview of the library.