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• How to expose new API methods in the HTTP Reporting API – Introducing the Piwik Platform

  26 février 2015, par Thomas Steur — Development

  This is the next post of our blog series where we introduce the capabilities of the Piwik platform (our previous post was How to write UI tests for your plugin). This time you’ll learn how to extend our Reporting API. For this tutorial you will need to have basic knowledge of PHP.

  What is Piwik’s Reporting API ?

  It allows third party applications to access analytics data and manipulate miscellaneous data (such as users or websites) through HTTP requests.

  What is it good for ?

  The Reporting API is used by the Piwik UI to render reports, to manage users, and more. If you want to add a feature to the Piwik UI, you might have to expose a method in the API to access this data. As the API is called via HTTP it allows you to fetch or manipulate any Piwik related data from anywhere. In these exposed API methods you can do pretty much anything you want, for example :

  • Enhance existing reports with additional data
  • Filter existing reports based on custom rules
  • Access the database and generate custom reports
  • Persist and read any data
  • Request server information

  Getting started

  In this series of posts, we assume that you have already set up your development environment. If not, visit the Piwik Developer Zone where you’ll find the tutorial Setting up Piwik.

  To summarize the things you have to do to get setup :

  • Install Piwik (for instance via git).
  • Activate the developer mode : ./console development:enable.
  • Generate a plugin : ./console generate:plugin --name="MyApiPlugin". There should now be a folder plugins/MyApiPlugin.
  • And activate the created plugin : ./console plugin:activate "MyApiPlugin"

  Let’s start creating an API

  We start by using the Piwik Console to create a new API :

  ./console generate:api

  The command will ask you to enter the name of the plugin the created API should belong to. I will simply use the above chosen plugin name “MyApiPlugin”. There should now be a file plugins/MyApiPlugin/API.php which contains already an example to get you started easily :

  class API extends \Piwik\Plugin\API
  {
      public function getAnswerToLife($truth = true)
      {
          if ($truth) {
              return 42;
          }
   
          return 24;
      }
   
      public function getExampleReport($idSite, $period, $date, $wonderful = false)
      {
          $table = DataTable::makeFromSimpleArray(array(
              array('label' => 'My Label 1', 'nb_visits' => '1'),
              array('label' => 'My Label 2', 'nb_visits' => '5'),
          ));
   
          return $table;
      }
  }
  Télécharger

  Any public method in that file will be available via the Reporting API. For example the method getAnswerToLife can be called via this URL : index.php?module=API&method=MyApiPlugin.getAnswerToLife. The URL parameter method is a combination of your plugin name and the method name within this class.

  Passing parameters to your method

  Both example methods define some parameters. To pass any value to a parameter of your method simply specify them by name in the URL. For example ...&method=MyApiPlugin.getExampleReport&idSite=1&period=week&date=today&wonderful=1 to pass values to the parameters of the method getExampleReport.

  Returning a value

  In an API method you can return any boolean, number, string or array value. A resource or an object cannot be returned unless it implements the DataTableInterface such as DataTable (the primary data structure used to store analytics data in Piwik), DataTable\Map (stores a set of DataTables) and DataTable\Simple (a DataTable where every row has two columns : label and value).

  Did you know ? You can choose the response format of your API request by appending a parameter &format=JSON|XML|CSV|... to the URL. Check out the Reporting API Reference for more information.

  Best practices

  Check user permissions

  Do not forget to check whether a user actually has permissions to access data or to perform an action. If you’re not familiar with Piwik’s permissions and how to check them read our User Permission guide.

  Keep API methods small

  At Piwik we aim to write clean code. Therefore, we recommend to keep API methods small (separation of concerns). An API pretty much acts like a Controller :

  public function createLdapUser($idSite, $login, $password)
  {
      Piwik::checkUserHasAdminAccess($idSite);
      $this->checkLogin($login);
      $this->checkPassword($password);
      
      $myModel = new LdapModel();
      $success = $myModel->createUser($idSite, $login, $password);
      
      return $success;
  }
  Télécharger

  This is not only easy to read, it will also allow you to create simple tests for LdapModel (without having to bootstrap the whole Piwik layer) and you will be able to reuse it in other places if needed.

  Calling APIs of other plugins

  For example if you want to fetch an existing report from another plugin, say a list of all Page URLs, do not request this report by calling that method directly :

  \Piwik\Plugins\Actions\API::getInstance()->getPageUrls($idSite, $period, $date);

  . Instead, issue a new API request :

  $report = \Piwik\API\Request::processRequest('Actions.getPageUrls', array(
  
      'idSite' => $idSite,
  
      'period' => $period,
  
      'date'   => $date,
  
  ));

  This has several advantages :

  • It avoids a fatal error if the requested plugin is not available on a Piwik installation
  • Other plugins can extend the called API method via events (adding additional report data to a report, doing additional permission checks) but those events will be only triggered when requesting the report as suggested
  • If the method parameters change, your request will most likely still work

  Publishing your Plugin on the Marketplace

  In case you want to share your API with other Piwik users you can do this by pushing your plugin to a public GitHub repository and creating a tag. Easy as that. Read more about how to distribute a plugin and best practices when publishing a plugin.

  Isn’t it easy to create a API ? We never even created a file ! If you have any feedback regarding our APIs or our guides in the Developer Zone feel free to send it to us.

• bigbluebutton ...

  7 mars 2015, par signo

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  Hello i have a BigBlueButton (0.9.0-beta (622)) installation on Debian Wheezy (7.8) all is ok except archiving recordings...

  in the log (/var/log/bigbluebutton/archive-488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675.log) i have always same message :

  I, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.320704 #4550]  INFO -- : Archiving events for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675.
  
  W, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.851280 #4550]  WARN -- : Failed to archive events for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675. Permission denied - /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675/events.xml (complete error below...)

  but all directory are writable by right user (tomcat7).

  More Info :

  bbb packages installed

  ii  bbb-apps                              0.9.0-1ubuntu88               amd64        BigBlueButton applications for Red5
  
  ii  bbb-apps-deskshare                    0.9.0-1ubuntu25               amd64        BigBlueButton deskshare module for Red5
  
  ii  bbb-apps-sip                          0.9.0-1ubuntu19               amd64        BigBlueButton SIP module for Red5
  
  ii  bbb-apps-video                        0.9.0-1ubuntu18               amd64        BigBlueButton video module for Red5
  
  ii  bbb-client                            0.9.0-1ubuntu235              all          BigBlueButton Flash client
  
  ii  bbb-config                            0.9.0-1ubuntu42               all          BigBlueButton configuration
  
  rc  bbb-demo                              0.9.0-1ubuntu8                amd64        BigBlueButton API demos
  
  ii  bbb-freeswitch                        0.9.0-1ubuntu38               amd64        BigBlueButton build of FreeSWITCH 1.5.x
  
  ii  bbb-mkclean                           0.8.7-1                       amd64        tool to clean and optimize Matroska and WebM files
  
  ii  bbb-office                            0.9.0-1ubuntu6                amd64        BigBlueButton wrapper for LibreOffice
  
  ii  bbb-playback-presentation             0.9.0-1ubuntu11               amd64        BigBluebutton playback of presentation
  
  ii  bbb-record-core                       0.9.0-1ubuntu37               amd64        BigBlueButton record and playback
  
  ii  bbb-red5                              0.9.0-1ubuntu25               amd64        The Red5 server for bbb
  
  ii  bbb-swftools                          0.9.2-1ubuntu14               amd64        The swftools files for bbb
  
  ii  bbb-web                               0.9.0-1ubuntu54               all          BigBlueButton API
  
  ii  bigbluebutton                         0.9.0-1ubuntu2                amd64        Open source web conferencing platform (bbb)

  ---

  bbb-conf —check

  BigBlueButton Server 0.9.0-beta (622)
  
                      Kernel version: 3.16.0-4-amd64(64-bit)
  
                              Memory: 12044 MB
  
  
  
  /var/www/bigbluebutton/client/conf/config.xml (bbb-client)
  
          Port test (tunnel): 2xx.xxx.xxx.xx
  
                                Red5: 2xx.xxx.xxx.xx
  
                useWebrtcIfAvailable: true
  
  
  
  /opt/freeswitch/conf/sip_profiles/external.xml (FreeSWITCH)
  
                      websocket port: 5066
  
                      WebRTC enabled: true
  
  
  
  /etc/nginx/sites-available/bigbluebutton (nginx)
  
                         server name: 2xx.xxx.xxx.xx
  
                                port: 80
  
                      bbb-client dir: /var/www/bigbluebutton
  
  
  
  /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/bigbluebutton/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties (bbb-web)
  
                        bbb-web host: 2xx.xxx.xxx.xx
  
  
  
  /usr/share/red5/webapps/bigbluebutton/WEB-INF/red5-web.xml (red5)
  
                    voice conference: FreeSWITCH
  
                       capture video: true
  
                     capture desktop: true
  
  
  
  /usr/local/bigbluebutton/core/scripts/bigbluebutton.yml (record and playback)
  
                       playback host: 2xx.xxx.xxx.xx
  
  
  
  
  
  * Potential problems described below **
  
      # IP does not match:
  
      #                           IP from ifconfig: 172.xx.xxx.xx
  
      #   /etc/nginx/sites-available/bigbluebutton: 2xx.xxx.xxx.xx
  
      # Error: Unable to connect to port 1935 (RTMP) 2xx.xxx.xxx.xx
  
  
  
      # Error: Unable to connect to port 9123 (desktop sharing) on 212.xxx.xxx.xx

  ---

  ls -l /var/freeswitch/meetings/

  -rw-r--r-- 1 freeswitch daemon 5139984 Mar  6 11:44 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675-81976383.wav

  ---

  ls -l /usr/share/red5/webapps/video/streams/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675/

  -rw-rw-r-- 1 red5 red5 438342 Mar  6 11:44 320x240-cztd6nyzasaz_1-1425642114164.flv

  ---

  ls -l /usr/share/red5/webapps/video/streams/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675/

  -rw-rw-r-- 1 red5 red5 438342 Mar  6 11:44 320x240-cztd6nyzasaz_1-1425642114164.flv

  ---

  cat /usr/share/red5/webapps/video/WEB-INF/red5-web.xml

  <bean class="org.bigbluebutton.app.video.VideoApplication">
  
          <property value="true"></property>
  
          <property ref="redisRecorder"></property>
  
  </bean>

  ---

  cat /usr/share/red5/webapps/deskshare/WEB-INF/red5-web.xml

   <bean class="org.bigbluebutton.deskshare.server.stream.StreamManager">
  
      
  
      
  
   </bean>

  ---

  bbb-record —watch

  Every 2.0s: bbb-record --list20                                                                                                                                   Fri Mar  6 11:53:58 2015
  
  
  
  Internal MeetingID                                               Time                APVD APVDE RAS Slides Processed            Published           External MeetingID
  
  ------------------------------------------------------  ---------------------------- ---- ----- --- ------ -------------------- ------------------  -------------------
  
  57d9849193299cebe9409d1c98d175958331d34a-1425642748807  Fri 6 Mar 11:52:28 GMT 2015   X                  5
  
  488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675  Fri 6 Mar 11:42:46 GMT 2015  XXX         X       6

  ---

  bbb-record —debug

  E, [2015-03-06T11:48:20.335578 #4548] ERROR -- : Sanity check failed on 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675

  ---

  cat /var/log/bigbluebutton/archive-488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675.log

  # Logfile created on 2015-03-06 11:48:19 +0000 by logger.rb/31641
  
  I, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.320704 #4550]  INFO -- : Archiving events for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675.
  
  W, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.851280 #4550]  WARN -- : Failed to archive events for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675. Permission denied - /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675/events.xml
  
  I, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.851428 #4550]  INFO -- : Fetching the recording marks for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675.
  
  I, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.851501 #4550]  INFO -- : Getting record status events
  
  W, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.851585 #4550]  WARN -- : Failed to fetch the recording marks for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675. Permission denied - /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675/events.xml
  
  I, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.851645 #4550]  INFO -- : Archiving audio /var/freeswitch/meetings/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675*.wav.
  
  W, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.851920 #4550]  WARN -- : Failed to archive audio for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675. Permission denied - /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675/audio
  
  I, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.851981 #4550]  INFO -- : Archiving presentation for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675.
  
  W, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.852257 #4550]  WARN -- : Failed to archive presentations for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675. Permission denied - /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675/presentation
  
  I, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.852322 #4550]  INFO -- : Archiving deskshare for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675.
  
  W, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.852561 #4550]  WARN -- : Failed to archive deskshare for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675. Permission denied - /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675/deskshare
  
  I, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.852620 #4550]  INFO -- : Archiving video for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675.
  
  W, [2015-03-06T11:48:19.852834 #4550]  WARN -- : Failed to archive video for 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675. Permission denied - /var/bigbluebutton/recording/raw/488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675/video

  ---

  all folder under /var/bigbluebutton/ have same rights (drwxrwxrwx tomcat7 tomcat7)

  ls -l /var/bigbluebutton/

  total 40
  
  drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Mar  6 11:42 488052dc7c095c74bf8992ec51a66298db04b765-1425642166675
  
  drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Mar  6 11:52 57d9849193299cebe9409d1c98d175958331d34a-1425642748807
  
  drwxrwxrwx 2 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Mar  3 15:52 blank
  
  drwxrwxrwx 2 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Feb 17 17:17 configs
  
  drwxrwxrwx 2 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Mar  3 15:57 deskshare
  
  drwxrwxrwx 2 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Mar  3 15:57 meetings
  
  drwxrwxrwx 3 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Mar  3 15:52 playback
  
  drwxrwxrwx 3 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Mar  3 15:57 published
  
  drwxrwxrwx 6 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Mar  3 15:57 recording
  
  drwxrwxrwx 2 tomcat7 tomcat7 4096 Mar  3 15:57 unpublished

  ---

• Android Video Compression [on hold]

  10 mars 2015, par Arif Gencosmanoglu

  I am planning to build a small Android JAVA application that compresses images and videos. I did the image compression part and my .apk size is 1.5MB. However when I do the video compression part by using ffmpeg the application size goes up to 20.0MB. This library has tons of features that I am not using. I only need a simple video compression module to add.

  Is there any other video compression methods or functions that will be useful ?

  Thanks.