how to stop streaming using Wowza RestAPIs?

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hello there,

I am trying to build a live stream application using WOWZA, but I am facing a problem in finishing/ending/stopping/ deleting the stream.

using the RestAPI’s described in the REST API Documentation I am able for example to retrieve publishers list using the following API:

Note: following APIs written in python-flask application.

URL_RETRIEVE_PUBLISHERS_LIST = "http://{}:{}/v2/servers/{}/vhosts/{}/applications/{}/publishers".format(settings.WSE_IP, settings.WSE_SERVER_PORT, settings.WSE_SERVER_NAME, settings.WSE_VHOST_NAME, settings.WSE_LIVE_APP_NAME)
response = requests.get(URL_RETRIEVE_PUBLISHERS_LIST,auth=(settings.WOWZA_USERNAME, settings.WOWZA_PASSWORD))

I used disconnect stream API to disconnect the stream, as follows:

URL_DISCONNECT_STREAM_WITH_STREAM_KEY = "http://{}:{}/v2/servers/{}/vhosts/{}/applications/{}/instances/{}/incomingstreams/{}/actions/0".format(
    settings.WSE_IP, settings.WSE_SERVER_PORT, settings.WSE_SERVER_NAME, settings.WSE_VHOST_NAME,
    settings.WSE_LIVE_APP_NAME, instanceName, stream_key)

and got the following response:

<response[200]>: content: b'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>\n<wmsResponse>\n  <success>false</success>\n  <message>Unknown action: 0</message>\n</wmsResponse>'

when I change the action in the API to disconnectStream except of “0”: I get <response[404]>

I’ve used as well the http stream control plugin, following is it’s link: how-to-control-stream-class-streams-dynamically-httpstreamcontrol

following is the API used to call the stop_stream action:

URL_DISCONNECT_STREAM_WITH_STREAM_KEY = "http://{}:8086/streamcontrol?appName={}&action=stopStream&streamName={}".format(settings.WSE_IP, settings.WSE_LIVE_APP_NAME, stream_key)
response = requests.get(URL_DISCONNECT_STREAM_WITH_STREAM_KEY, auth=(settings.WOWZA_USERNAME,settings.WOWZA_PASSWORD))

it returns

<response[200]>: content: b'<html><head><title>Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Developer Edition (Expires: Dec 17, 2020) 4.8.5 build20200616153358</title></head><body>Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Developer Edition (Expires: Dec 17, 2020) 4.8.5 build20200616153358</body></html>'

but without ending the specified stream.

my question is : how can I end/finish/stop the stream using an API, so that I can activate the onStreamDestroy/onDisconnect event in my WowzaJavaModule?

All what I need to do is to end the stream so that the events in my WowzaJavaModule start!

any suggestion would be highly appriciated.

thanks in advanced

othman

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Try running your query on port 8087 instead of 8086. I get the same behavior on 8086, 200 with my Engine build configuration, which appears to be expected behavior (1935 does the same thing).

I would also recommend using curl or Postman to test your queries to make sure your Python code is behaving as you expect it.

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Please see this post for additional information.

http://community.wowza.com/community/questions/49449/is-there-any-way-to-stop-stream-using-wowza-engine.html

You can submit a support ticket if you still need help with stopping the stream when the viewer clicks ‘Finish’.