Too much of a pain in the ass to handle, too many format options to
think of, too many combinations of pipelines to support, and if I don't
think of those beforehand then I'll have to offload all of that
complexity on the user.
It was just too painful to find a combination of versions of gunicorn,
gevent, eventlet, pyuwsgi etc. that could work on all of my systems.
On the other hand, Tornado works out of the box with no headaches.
Also in this commit:
- Updated a bunch of outdated/required integration dependencies.
- Black'd and LINTed a couple of old plugins.
The eventlet API has way too many dependency issues with gunicorn.
Still TODO: Fix or at least mitigate the WSGI workers timeout issue when
they handle websocket connections.
The websocket service is no longer provided by a different service,
controlled by a different thread running on another port.
Instead, it's now exposed directly over Flask routes, using
WSGI+eventlet+simple_websocket.
Also, the SSL context options have been removed from `backend.http`, for
sake of simplicity. If you want to enable SSL, you can serve Platypush
through a reverse proxy like nginx.
Added `waitress` dependency. For performance and security reasons, it's
better to always run the Flask application inside of a uWSGI server.
`waitress` also makes things easier by avoiding to ask the user to
manually provide the external executable arguments, as it was the case
with `uwsgi` and `gunicorn`.
- Out `gattlib` + `pybluez`, in `bleak`. It's not platform-dependent, it doesn't
require libboost and other heavy build dependencies, and it doesn't require the
user that runs the service from having special privileges to access raw
Bluetooth sockets.
- Better integration with Platypush native entities. The devices are now mapped
to write-only `EnumSwitch` entities, and the status returns the serialized
representation of those entities instead of the previous intermediate
representation.
The relevant clipboard monitoring logic has been moved to the
`clipboard` plugin. Thus, enabling the plugin should provide all the
feature, with no need for an additional backend.
- Added ability to listen for signals
- Improved introspection output
- `dbus` plugin and backend have now been merged
- Migrated from `dbus` to `pydbus`