Adding/Deleting/Modifying Startup Streams and Stream Files from the JAVA API

Wowza Developer Dojo
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Hello,

I have been using Wowza to interface with RTSP sources. One of the features I have made use of is startup streams and stream files. The stream files have the rtsp information in them, and they’re automatically connected to Wowza when the server boots up.

I am calling the Wowza REST API from another server to set up these files and startup streams, however I now have a need to dynamically modify these stream files and start up streams within our Java code in the Wowza server itself. Specifically if an rtsp source is detected no longer valid, I want to automatically delete it from our server using the Java server API, but I am not able to find an appropriate method to do so.

I was able to find the methods getStartupStreams and addStartupStream on page 2787 of this document: https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaStreamingEngine_ServerSideAPI.pdf, but I don’t see a corresponding modify or delete API. https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaStreamingEngine_ServerSideAPI.pdf

I was also not able to find any APIs to deal with stream files directly.

Are there any JAVA Server APIs to add/edit/delete the entries in [Wowza install dir]/conf/StartupStreams.xml as well as add/edit/delete the stream files in [Wowza install dir]/content?

Thanks very much,

Allan

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I’ve done some work with this and use java.io to write .stream files to the appropriate content directory for an application. I haven’t worked with auto-start APIs, though.

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Hi Allan,

StartupStream objects that are added through the addStartupStream() method are only held in memory for the duration of the Wowza Server’s running time (wiped on restart). There is a stopStartupStreams() method, but this would stop all startup stream objects. It may be best to use the MediaCaster API to start and stop these streams in your code.

Michelle