Echo Test example

Table of Contents

  1. Download
  2. Getting Started
    1. Server
    2. Client
  3. Options
    1. Server Type
    2. Port
    3. Host

The echo test example allows you to echo data from the Flash Player to a Python webserver, and verify in the client if the returned data is valid and the same as the original data.

Download

  1. The EchoTest example for PyAMF (browse online): 
    svn co http://svn.pyamf.org/examples/trunk/echo echotest
  1. Compiled SWF in the Red5 trunk:
  1. (optional) SWF Source (AS3/MXML) in the Red5 trunk:

Getting Started

Server

  1. Open a console/command prompt and start the echo test server: 
    cd echotest/python
python server.py
  1. It should print a startup text: 
    Started Echo Test - WSGI server on http://localhost:8000

Client

  1. Open the compiled SWF (in a browser) and change the HTTP field from http://localhost:5080/echo/gateway to http://localhost:8000
  2. Press the HTTP AMF0, HTTP AMF3 or mx:RemoteObject button to start one or more of the selected tests.
  1. Check the test results in the output log of the SWF: 
    Connecting through HTTP using AMF0 encoding...
Testing null: OK (in 0.118 sec). Result: (null)
Testing undefined: OK (in 0.025 sec). Result: (null)
Testing true: OK (in 0.049 sec). Result: (true)
Testing false: OK (in 0.05 sec). Result: (false)
Testing : OK (in 0.05 sec). Result: (String with 0 chars)
Testing Hello world!: OK (in 0.052 sec). Result: (Hello world!)
Testing test1,test2,test3,test4: OK (in 0.051 sec). Result: (test1,test2,test3,test4)
Testing String with 40000 chars: OK (in 0.048 sec). Result: (String with 40000 chars)
Testing String with 70000 chars: OK (in 0.063 sec). Result: (String with 70000 chars)
Testing String with 1000000 chars: OK (in 0.2 sec). Result: (String with 1000000 chars)
Testing 0: OK (in 0.031 sec). Result: (0)
Testing 1: OK (in 0.042 sec). Result: (1)
Testing -1: OK (in 0.042 sec). Result: (-1)
Testing 256: OK (in 0.053 sec). Result: (256)
Testing -256: OK (in 0.045 sec). Result: (-256)
Testing 65536: OK (in 0.052 sec). Result: (65536)
Testing -65536: OK (in 0.05 sec). Result: (-65536)
etc....

Options

Server Type

PyAMF currently has support for WSGI, Twisted and Django.
The default action is to use the WSGI framework as a base to serve the gateway. There is a commandline switch --type which you can use to change the server type.
The values wsgi, twisted and django are supported in this example. 

python server.py --type=twisted

It should print a startup text: 

Started Echo Test - Twisted server on http://localhost:8000

Port

You can change the port that the gateway is served on. The default is 8000. 

python server.py --port=4444

It should print a startup text: 

Started Echo Test - WSGI server on http://localhost:4444

Host

You can change the host address that the gateway is served on with the --host switch. The default is localhost. 

python server.py --host=192.168.1.100

It should print a startup text: 

Started Echo Test - WSGI server on http://192.168.1.100:8000