NMOS Node API

An implementation of an AMWA NMOS IS-04 Node API.

Introduction

Package providing a basic NMOS Node API implementation. It takes the form of a "Node Facade" which accepts data from private back-end data providers.

Installation

Requirements

Linux (untested on Windows and Mac)
Python 2.7 (also Python 3.6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04)
Python Pip
NMOS Common

Steps

# Install Python setuptools
$ pip install setuptools

# Install the service
$ sudo python setup.py install

Configuration

The Node API makes use of a configuration file provided by the NMOS Common Library. Please see that repository for configuration details.

Usage

The following code snippet demonstrates registering a service and its resources with the Node API.

from nmosnode.facade import Facade

# Initialise service name to use for Node API interactions
nodeapi = Facade("myservice/v1.0")

# Register the service with the Node API including its own API endpoint
nodeapi.register_service("http://127.0.0.1", "myservice/v1.0")

# Heartbeat with the Node API - You'll need to call this every 5 seconds from another thread
nodeapi.heartbeat_service()

# Register your resources with the Node API
nodeapi.addResource("device", "my-device-uuid", "my-device-json-here")

Non-blocking

Run the following script to start the Node Facade in a non-blocking manner, and then stop it again at a later point:

    from nmosnode.nodefacadeservice import NodeFacadeService

    service = NodeFacadeService()
    service.start()

    # Do something else until ready to stop

    service.stop()

Blocking

It is also possible to run Node Facade in a blocking manner:

    from nmosnode.nodefacadeservice import NodeFacadeService

    service = NodeFacadeService()
    service.run() # Runs forever

Development

Testing

# Run the tests
$ make test

Packaging

Packaging files are provided for internal BBC R&D use. These packages depend on packages only available from BBC R&D internal mirrors, and may not work in other environments. For use outside the BBC please use python installation method.

# Debian packaging
$ make deb

# RPM packaging
$ make rpm

Versioning

We use Semantic Versioning for this repository

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Please ensure you have run the test suite before submitting a Pull Request, and include a version bump in line with our Versioning policy.

License

See LICENSE.md

bbc/nmos-node