How to generate continous event stream

[HR-KSSK]

I am trying to generate a continous event stream with this library.

I get this to work by using an endpoint which has to be called by the client which looks like:

@app.route('/api/get/statusupdate')
def status_update():
    controller = TestController()
    while True:
        sse.publish(controller.get_status(), type='greeting')
        time.sleep(5)

I am configuring the plugin with this:

app.config["REDIS_URL"] = "redis://localhost"
app.register_blueprint(sse, url_prefix='/stream')

Now I can call /stream in the client to listen to events, but I need to call /api/get/statusupdate first which is a workaround. Is it possible to do this withiout calling /api/get/statusupdate and directly output some data on the event endpoint?

[prathmeshpatel]

@HR-KSSK Why not just have threads or a background scheduler that calls your method in your flask app periodically?

[nilskretschmer]

@HR-KSSK Why not just have threads or a background scheduler that calls your method in your flask app periodically?

Thanks for your reply - that's exactly what I'm doing right now. I think the use-case of this library does not match with what I needed to achieve.