I'm trying to serve a video file as response when certain request hits the server (server running on a mobile app). eg: someone goes to http://mylocalip:8080/video, and I want to serve him with a video.
This video file can be stored locally, or can be external. I started trying to serve a file located on a SMB server, so I tried using this code to get the file from the server and returning it (I know it's waiting for the whole file to read instead of reading and sending chunks, but should work right?):
webServer.addDefaultHandlerForMethod("GET", requestClass: GCDWebServerRequest.self, processBlock: {request in
print("########\n########Request: \(request)")
let webrequested:GCDWebServerRequest = request;
let urlcita:String = String(webrequested.URL)
print("URL of requests\(urlcita)")
if urlcita.rangeOfString("videosmb") != nil{
print("It's a video SMB request")
//Test fake SMB file predefined. Read File using KxSMB
let route:String = "smb://192.168.1.205/ServidorAH/video.avi";
let extensFile:NSString = (route as NSString).pathExtension
let contentype = GCDWebServerGetMimeTypeForExtension(extensFile as String);
print("Content type MIME \(contentype)")
//Open SMB file using KxSMB
let authcredentials = KxSMBAuth.smbAuthWorkgroup("", username: "Guest", password: "");
let provider = KxSMBProvider.sharedSmbProvider()!
let archivoes = provider.fetchAtPath(route, auth: authcredentials)
//Switch to manually end the reading when switched to true. In the future will send chunks of data until the end, instead of reading the whole file first.
var interruptor:Bool = false
//Response Stream block
let responseStream: GCDWebServerStreamedResponse = GCDWebServerStreamedResponse(contentType: contentype, asyncStreamBlock: { completionBlock in
if (interruptor == true)
{
print("Test: End of reading")
completionBlock(NSData(), nil);
}
if archivoes!.isKindOfClass(NSError){
//It can not find the file, SMB error, so empty NSDATA to completion block
let errorcito:NSError = archivoes as! NSError
print("Error obteniendo archivo SMB: \(errorcito.localizedDescription)");
completionBlock(NSData(), nil);
}else{
print("Archivo SMB adecuado \(archivoes)")
let datos:NSData = archivoes!.readDataToEndOfFile()
//Print lenght of data (to check the size of the file)
print("Data lenght \(datos.length)")
//Set switch to true, so the next call will send an empty daya completion block
interruptor = true
//Send data chunk (in this case everything)
completionBlock(datos, nil);
}
})
return responseStream
}else{
//Default response
return GCDWebServerDataResponse(HTML:"<html><body><p>Hello World<br></p></body></html>")
}
However, I can't make it work. I always get a broken pipe error, and the web player accessing the web server (browsing from the mac and iOS too) doesn't play anything. I've also tried using an embeded iOS player to log the response (KxMovie). I get something like this:
[DEBUG] Did open connection on socket 19
[DEBUG] Connection received 177 bytes on socket 19
[DEBUG] Connection on socket 19 preflighting request "GET /videosmb" with 177 bytes body
[DEBUG] Connection on socket 19 processing request "GET /videosmb" with 177 bytes body
[DEBUG] Did connect
[DEBUG] Did start background task
[DEBUG] Connection sent 175 bytes on socket 19
...
Using a local player (KxMovie) from inside the App, here appears to be reading the file headers and it gets the right file size and dimensions of the video. However it doesn't play and it ends saying it reached the end of the video (without playing it). Just after that, WebServer shows an error:
...
[ERROR] Error while writing to socket 19: Broken pipe (32)
[DEBUG] Did close connection on socket 19
[VERBOSE] [fe80::cd0:28cd:3a37:b871%en1:8080] fe80::cd0:28cd:3a37:b871%en1:50109 200 "GET /videosmb" (177 | 175)
[DEBUG] Did disconnect
[DEBUG] Did end background task
Given the fact this is the first time I'm dealing with SMB servers, I though that maybe I was doing something wrong with the SMB part, so I decided to go for a simplified method just for testing. This time I tried to serve a simple mp4 file stored on a remote webserver (not SMB). It didn't work either. Finally I tried to serve a local file included in the main Bundle of the App, and the same happened: nothing. Here is the code:
webServer.addDefaultHandlerForMethod("GET", requestClass: GCDWebServerRequest.self, processBlock: {request in
print("########\n########Request: \(request)")
let webrequested:GCDWebServerRequest = request;
let url:String = String(webrequested.URL)
print("URL of request: \(url)")
if url.rangeOfString("video") != nil{
print("It's a video request")
let rutalocalita = (NSBundle.mainBundle()).pathForResource("video", ofType: "avi")
let datos = NSData(contentsOfFile: rutalocalita!)!
print("video size: \(datos.length)")
return GCDWebServerDataResponse(data: datos, contentType: "video/avi")
}else{
//Default Response: Simple web
return GCDWebServerDataResponse(HTML:"<html><body><p>Hello World<br></p></body></html>")
}
})
This is what the log looks like:
[DEBUG] Did open connection on socket 19
[DEBUG] Connection received 177 bytes on socket 19
[DEBUG] Connection on socket 19 preflighting request "GET /video" with 177 bytes body
[DEBUG] Connection on socket 19 processing request "GET /video" with 177 bytes body
[DEBUG] Did connect
[DEBUG] Did start background task
[myCUSTOMDebug] Read 13584902 b. I'm going to send the response back to the request.
[DEBUG] Connection sent 173 bytes on socket 19
...
Here the local Playing I'm using inside the app to track the response, is able to read things like:
header='HTTP/1.1 200 OK'
2015-10-17 17:51:41.571 videotvtest[262:14252] http_code=200
2015-10-17 17:51:41.571 videotvtest[262:14252] header='Cache-Control: no-cache'
2015-10-17 17:51:41.571 videotvtest[262:14252] header='Content-Length: 13584902'
2015-10-17 17:51:41.572 videotvtest[262:14252] header='Content-Type: video/avi'
2015-10-17 17:51:41.572 videotvtest[262:14252] header='Connection: Close'
2015-10-17 17:51:41.573 videotvtest[262:14252] header='Server: GCDWebServer'
...
[ERROR] Error while writing to socket 19: Broken pipe (32)
[DEBUG] Did close connection on socket 19
[VERBOSE] [fe80::cd0:28cd:3a37:b871%en1:8080] fe80::cd0:28cd:3a37:b871%en1:50155 200 "GET /video" (177 | 173)
netbios_ns_send_name_query, name query sent for '*'.
[DEBUG] Did disconnect
[DEBUG] Did end background task
I'm playing around with tvOS and Xcode 7 for this, but I guess it should be ok if I'm able to show a regular HTML response... so I'm sure I'm missing something, or maybe I missed some framework when installing WebServer (I'm not using pods)? Thanks in advance
