CoAP tools

As opposed to the Usage Examples, programs listed here are not tuned to show the use of aiocoap, but are tools for everyday work with CoAP implemented in aiocoap. Still, they can serve as examples of how to deal with user-provided addresses (as opposed to the fixed addresses in the examples), or of integration in a bigger project in general.

Those utilities are installed by setup.py at the usual executable locations; during development or when working from a git checkout of the project, wrapper scripts are available in the root directory. In some instances, it might be practical to access their functionality from within Python; see the aiocoap.cli module documentation for details.

All tools provide details on their invocation and arguments when called with the --help option.

contrib

Tools in the contrib/ folder are somewhere inbetween Usage Examples and the tools above; the rough idea is that they should be generally useful but not necessarily production tools, and simple enough to be useful as an inspiration for writing other tools; none of this is set in stone, though, so that area can serve as a noncommittal playground.

These tools are currently present:

  • aiocoap-widgets: Graphical software implementations of example CoAP devices as servers (eg. light bulb, switch). They should become an example of how CoRE interfaces and dynlinks can be used to discover and connect servers, and additionally serve as a playground for a more suitable Resource implementation.

    The GUI is implemented in Gtk3 using the gbulb asyncio loop.

  • aiocoap-kivy-widget: A similar (and smaller) widget implemented in Kivy.

    As asyncio support is not merged in Kivy yet, be sure to build the library from the asyncio pull request.

  • oscore-plugtest: Server and client for the interoperability tests conducted during the development of OSCORE.

    The programs in there are also used as part of the test suite.

  • rd-relay: An experiment of how much a host must implement if it is to be discovered during a Resource Directory discovery process, but does not serve as the full resource directory itself and redirects the client there.