First steps with VumiΒΆ

The simplest Vumi system consists of a transport worker and an application worker.

A transport worker is responsible for sending messages to and receiving messages from users in the big wide world. For this example we’ll be using a very simple transport that interacts with a user over telnet. Other transport mechanisms Vumi supports include SMPP, XMPP, Twitter, IRC, HTTP and a variety of mobile network aggregator specific messaging protocols.

The application worker processes messages from a transport and sends replies – it holds the application logic. Our application worker will simply echo messages it receives back to the user than sent them. More complicated demonstration application workers are available in vumi.demos.

It is also possible for application logic to be kept external to Vumi and to communicate with Vumi via its HTTP relay application (see vumi.application.http_relay).

Bigger systems will include multiple transport workers and application workers and also failure workers and dispatchers but we will ignore these for the moment.

Vumi workers communicate over RabbitMQ so first ensure that the RabbitMQ server is installed and running. Next setup RabbitMQ for Vumi using:

sudo ./utils/rabbitmq.setup.sh

from your clone of the Vumi repository. You should now be ready to start the Vumi workers.

Open a terminal window and start the transport worker by running:

twistd -n --pidfile=telnettransport.pid start_worker --worker-class vumi.transports.telnet.TelnetServerTransport --set-option=transport_name:telnet --set-option=telnet_port:9010

If all is well, open a second terminal window and start the application worker:

twistd -n --pidfile=echoworker.pid start_worker --worker-class vumi.demos.words.EchoWorker --set-option=transport_name:telnet

Your first Vumi setup should now be running. You can test it by opening a third window and connecting with a telnet client:

telnet localhost 9010

Lines you type should be echoed back to you.

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