I wrote this small script to help make room management a little easier with Flask-SocketIO. As some of you who have worked with Miguel Grinberg's Flask-SocketIO , a large amount of the emitting is done through something called rooms. Hotelier tries to give a decent API for creating and joining rooms, maintaining owners and also maintaining rooms for each user that joins the socket to enable emitting to a specific user which was mentioned here

from hotelier import RoomManager

hotelier = RoomManager()

The create_room function will create a room using a request-sid and a room name as arguments:

from flask import request

# Create Room:

hotelier.create_room(request.sid, 'This is a Room')

# Destroy Room:

hotelier.destroy_room(request.sid)

This will create a room and register the current request.sid as the owner of said room. The destroy_room function takes the request.sid as an argument and destroys the room that the user was an owner to.

The join_room function takes the three arguments: the request.sid, Name of the room and the desired alias of the user inside of said room respectively. This will successfully join an already created room. The leave_room function leaves the current room the user is joined to.

from flask import request

# Join Room:

hotelier.join_room(request.sid, 'This is a Room', 'IAMUSER')

# Leave Room:

hotelier.leave_room(request.sid)

The following methods are some helper functions made:

get_participant_name

If the user is part of a room, this method will get the name of the participant using their request.sid as a parameter:

hotelier.get_participant_name(request.sid)

get_participant_sid_from_name

If the user is part of a room, this method will get the request.sid of the participant using their name as a parameter:

hotelier.get_participant_sid_from_name("IAMUSER")

get_room_from_participant

If the user is part of a room, this method will get the room name that they are part of using their request.sid as a parameter:

hotelier.get_room_from_participant(request.sid)

get_owner

Will get the owner of the room that the user is a participant of using their request.sid:

hotelier.get_owner(request.sid)

# returns owner's request.sid

I have only been using this in development for an application I am busy with. There is some more functionality I plan to add and some better API feel for the messaging part of it. This is also my first github repo so be nice please :). Any suggestions are always welcome.