There is a line that reads:

Copyright (C) 2008-2010 python-messaging developers

Typically, you would use that format for a formal legal entity, such as a company or some other group that has legal status.

I recommend you update that line to individually name the developers who have contributed code.

Thanks.

Although is not a very used feature, it would be nice for completeness sake to have it implemented

In MMS Read-Reply header is boolean_value, but in messaging/mms/mms_pdu.py not has a method encode_boolean_value. And MMSMessage.to_file(filename) not works.

Hello,

#!/usr/bin/env python

-- coding: utf-8 --

import os
import messaging
from messaging import sms
from messaging.sms import gsm0338
from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit

file = open('/var/spool/asterisk/sms_temp/gsm_sms_out/m_body.txt')
m_body = file.read()
file.close()

file = open('/var/spool/asterisk/sms_temp/gsm_sms_out/m_to.txt')
m_to = file.read()
file.close()

sms = SmsSubmit(m_to, m_body.decode('UTF-8'))

for pdu in sms.to_pdu():
pdu_out = str(pdu.pdu)
send_pdu_cmd="asterisk -rx " + "'dongle pdu COSMOTE " + pdu_out + "'"
os.system(send_pdu_cmd)

exit()

The above code is for sending sms messages with Asterisk and chan_dongle. It works well in general, but i found that if the message includes smiles it ends with : "ValueError: chr() arg not in range(256)"!

For example if the m_body.txt is "Δοκιμή!" the script runs without error.

If the m_body.txt is "Δοκιμή!Smile" it gives :

":~# /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/PDU_out.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/PDU_out.py", line 25, in
for pdu in sms.to_pdu():
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/messaging/sms/submit.py", line 83, in to_pdu
sms_msg_pdu = self._get_msg_pdu()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/messaging/sms/submit.py", line 258, in _get_msg_pdu
message_pdu = [pack_8bits_to_ucs2(self.text)]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/messaging/utils.py", line 166, in pack_8bits_to_ucs2
nmesg += chr(ord(n) >> 8) + chr(ord(n) & 0xFF)
ValueError: chr() arg not in range(256)"

How can i solve this?
Thank u!

Hi

I am getting this error when decoding a PDU:

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/python_messaging-0.5.10-py2.5.egg/messaging/utils.py", line 55, in to_array
return array('B', [int(pdu[i:i + 2], 16) for i in range(0, len(pdu), 2)])

Any ideas?

Cheers

When you try calling add_text on an MMSMessagePage instance with the argument as unicode, it rejects! Below are the lines of concern in mms/message.py :

         if not isinstance(text, str):
             raise TypeError("Text must be a string")

Do you see any reason why this PDU generated by python-messaging:

079144872090025311000C914417325476980000FF0FF37219947FD7416937280603E101

Would give the error:

CMS ERROR: 304 (Invalid PDU mode parameter)

While this PDU generated by another program:

079144872090025311000C914417325476980000FF10F37219947FD7416937280603E141

Would succeed?

Both PDUs are the same length and appear to contain the same message according to various online decoders, but the working PDU has a UDL that is 1 longer and the last octet is different.

I am unsure whether this is a bug in SmsSubmit or in the device.

Create a new branch with python 3 support

See the PDU used in test_decoding_datetime_gmtplusone. It has leading whitespace, but by the time it reaches the test suite, those have been lost.

Hallo,
I can successfully decode greek-english PDU streams, but i can't encode greek text - all cups, to a readable PDU .

Can someone please show me a way to encode greek text to GSM and then to PDU?

Thank u!

Hello,

It was pointed out to me that there are several email addresses in test_sms.py, such as the @tomslot.com address.

I don't think the tests send email, so there shouldn't be danger of that person suddenly receiving lots of spam. However, does that address need to be valid? Would it be ok to introduce a fake address in there?

I ask because I'm in the process of packaging python-messaging for debian, and I have enabled the tests to run during package build time. Last thing we want is for debian to be spamming innocent people. :)

Thanks.

I ask how send MMS from this devices. I have Huawei E173 and Huawei E3131-s2. I use this devices with Raspberry Pi and PC with Linux. Please help me.

Thanks!

Caused when trying to run python setup.py install or pip install -e git+<gh clone url>. Seems to be caused by distribute_setup.py trying to reinstall the setuptools egg for some reason, simply commenting out the first two lines of setup.py fixed it for me.

This area was slightly broken until recently due to our lack of unittests in this area. Having some unittests that explicitly target 7bit decoding (and not the rest of the PDU toolchain) would be very nice.

Hello, I try to use python-messaging. I try your example for the encoding of a MMS text + photo, but here is the error message:

pi@raspberrypi:~/PycharmProjects/mms $ python3 mms.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mms.py", line 13, in
payload = mms.encode()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/python_messaging-0.5.12-py3.4.egg/messaging/mms/message.py", line 223, in encode
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/python_messaging-0.5.12-py3.4.egg/messaging/mms/mms_pdu.py", line 607, in encode
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/python_messaging-0.5.12-py3.4.egg/messaging/mms/mms_pdu.py", line 802, in encode_message_body
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/python_messaging-0.5.12-py3.4.egg/messaging/mms/message.py", line 552, in data
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 313, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

You could explain me how to take out there.
Thank you for your help
best regards
christophe

It seems there's another project called python-messaging and it's now available in Fedora 17!
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/messaging/
How should this be handled as we have that name in Debian / Ubuntu?

It would be nice if it also support own UDH on sms-submit

It would be nice to support encoding 16bit concatenated sms references in SmsSubmit.

Hello,

First I want to thank you for the awesome lib! I try to get PDUs for a long message and send them to my phone to test, and I discovered that a phone doesn't concatenate them back into one SMS.

I just do SmsSubmit('123456', 'some ... very ... long .... text').to_pdu() and send these parts to my GSM gateway.

What could be wrong?

TIA,
Philipp

We should be able to decode generic WAP pushes so that we can test the content type properly. Currently we assume that all WAP pushes are MMS notifications, which obviously isn't true.

How can I achieve this goal?
I'm able to decode single pdu parts but how to put together?

Many thanks in advice and best regards.

Since the MMS headers are stored in a dictionary, you cannot have multiple 'To' headers to specify multiple recipients

Hi everyone,

I failed to send a multipart SMS. Is that a still supported feature ?
I did :

import serial
from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit

sms = SmsSubmit("+44123231231", "hey " * 50)
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB1', timeout=1)
for pdu in sms.to_pdu():
    ser.write('AT+CMGS=%d\r' % pdu.length)
    ser.write('%s\x1a' % pdu.pdu)

It'd be useful to have this package available on Pypi for easier installation with pip and to make it less reliant on this repository being available on GitHub on this URL.

Hi,

I downloaded the latest version of python-messaging with sudo apt-get install python-messaging
I also built the documentation using the pmarti git-hub repository and tried the sample code. However, I get an error.
Below is the complete trace. I am on Ubuntu 12.04

Any ideas?

amil@amil-ubuntu:~$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 20 2012, 22:39:59) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from datetime import timedelta
>>> from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit
>>> 
>>> sms = SmsSubmit("+44123231231", "this SMS will auto-destroy in 5 hours")
>>> sms.validity = timedelta(hours=5)
>>> pdu = sms.to_pdu()[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_messaging-0.5.10-py2.7.egg/messaging/sms/submit.py", line 83, in to_pdu
    sms_msg_pdu = self._get_msg_pdu()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_messaging-0.5.10-py2.7.egg/messaging/sms/submit.py", line 235, in _get_msg_pdu
    msgvp_pdu = encode_str(chr(msgvp))
TypeError: integer argument expected, got float
>>> 

How can to encode an MMS without smil and just img/txt dataparts?

decode_pdu fails with

ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found

I think is just one bit that's missing and we should not read it

Hello,

I'm trying to create an MMS Smile using the providing example but i have the followings errors

Python 2.7 :
File "test_mms.py", line 9, in
slide1.add_image('/home/nickilo/image1.jpg')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/messaging/mms/message.py", line 341, in add_image
self.image = (DataPart(filename), time_begin, time_end)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/messaging/mms/message.py", line 452, in init
super(DataPart, self).init()
TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not classobj

Python 3.5
File "test_mms.py", line 14, in
payload = mms.encode()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/messaging/mms/message.py", line 223, in encode
return encoder.encode(self)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/messaging/mms/mms_pdu.py", line 607, in encode
msg_data.extend(self.encode_message_body())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/messaging/mms/mms_pdu.py", line 801, in encode_message_body
for char in part.data:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/messaging/mms/message.py", line 552, in data
self._data = f.read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

Do you have any clue ? Installation was made using pip or pip3.

Thank you,

Regards

The fix for 7bit decoding broke py3k support:

 test_encoding_multipart_7bit (messaging.test.test_encoding.TestEncodingFunctions) ... Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/pablo/devel/git/python-messaging/build/lib.linux-i686-3.1/messaging/gsm0338.py", line 395, in is_valid_gsm_text
      text.encode("gsm0338")
 TypeError: encoder did not return a bytes object (type=str)

I have noticed that sometimes my GSM modem send me a PDU which length is odd.

This causes the library to crash, with following message:

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_messaging-0.3.0-py2.6.egg/messaging/pdu.py", line 169, in decode_pdu
d = StringIO(bytes_to_str(unhexlify(pdu)))
TypeError: Odd-length string

Is it something related to my hardware or is it a bug? Hardware's technical support said PDU length can be odd and actually I can't find out anything on the internet saying that.

How may I resolve?

At the moment we only support relative validity defaulting to 0xAA (170 - 4 days). It would be nice if we could provide absolute validity or not validity period at all.

decode I send MMS to others .mms file
in headers.
From is always <not inserted> And Date is null

Hi,

Your library isn't properly converting Polish characters like ą, ś, ę, ć etc. from UTF-8 to UCS2. The resulting data in the PDU gets malformed and after sending it through a GSM modem, the text becomes just a bunch of random characters.
To fix that, you need to change your pack_8bits_to_ucs2 function in messaging/utils.py. Here's how it should look like in order for it to work properly with Polish chars:

def pack_8bits_to_ucs2(message, udh=None):
    # XXX: This does not control the size respect to UDH
    text = message
    nmesg = ''

    if udh is not None:
        text = udh.encode('utf-8', 'ignore') + text

    for n in unicode(text, "utf-8"):
        nmesg += chr(ord(n) >> 8) + chr(ord(n) & 0xFF)
    mlen = len(text.decode("utf-8")) * 2
    message = chr(mlen) + nmesg
    return encode_str(message)

mismatch in decoding pdu sms delivery time
example:
text mode:
at+cmgr=5
+CMGR: "REC READ","+917618799612",,"17/10/05,11:54:04+22"
hg

pdu mode:
at+cmgr=5
+CMGR: 1,,21
0791198954800710040C9119678197692100007101501145402202E833

output:

pdu = "0791198954800710040C9119678197692100007101501145402202E833"
sms = SmsDeliver(pdu)
print sms.date
2017-10-05 06:24:04

How can I send an empty SMS with python-messaging?

I was trying to use your returned PDU and locate and set the TP-PID octet using this guide on SMS data format, but was not able to parse the output PDU.
SmsSubmit("125", "hello") yields 001100038121F50000FF05E8329BFD06

What are the first 6 octets, 001100 for?
Also, if I ignore those and I am understanding correctly:
03 = length of to address (3 octets)
81 = unknown phone number type
21F5 = 125 phone number
00 = TP-PID??
00 = TP-DCS??
FF 05 E8 32 9B FD 06 = time stamp??

At this point, I think I am doing something wrong. I don't think this is following the same format as that guide.

Any ideas?

According to SMIL, src attribute value should contain attachment name not the text itself. Please fix. :)

There is no method to encode the expiry header of an MMS

Hi, the content of the tutorials folder isnt enough to successfully retrieve a mms message from the mmsc, I will glad if you describe how do it.

Hello Pablo,

I am looking at packaging this software for inclusion into debian and ubuntu.

One thing that comes to mind is that "messaging" is a very generic term, and doesn't really help users determine whether they would want this package installed on their systems or not.

Is there any chance you'd consider a different name that gives an indication that this module is to be used for SMS/MMS type things? As an example, here are the names of other python packages that already exist in debian/ubuntu:

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/628062/

If you want to keep this name, that is fine, and it will not hinder inclusion by debian; but it is something to think about.

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks!
/ac

Currently we only support the default alphabet, but TS23.038 also defines TURKISH, SPANISH and PORTUGUESE

SMS_ALPHABET_DEFAULT = 0,
SMS_ALPHABET_TURKISH,
SMS_ALPHABET_SPANISH,
SMS_ALPHABET_PORTUGUESE,

I get this error when I follow the encode and send an MMS. My exact code is below.

PROXY RESPONSE HTTP/1.0 200 OK
content-type: application/vnd.wap.mms-message
content-length: 59
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:36:44 GMT
Server: Mavenir Web Application Server

���1234�����,�Failed to handle HTTP request in Mm1Server

Code used to encode and send:

from messaging.mms.message import MMSMessage, MMSMessagePage

mms = MMSMessage()
mms.headers['To'] = '+212XXXXXXX/TYPE=PLMN'
mms.headers['Message-Type'] = 'm-send-req'
mms.headers['Subject'] = 'Test python-messaging.mms'

slide1 = MMSMessagePage()
slide1.add_image('/home/richard/screensaver/TolleConscQte.jpg')
slide1.add_text('This first slide, is a step towards enlightenment.')

slide2 = MMSMessagePage()
slide2.set_duration(4500)
slide2.add_image('/home/richard/screensaver/TollePastALL.jpg', 1500)
slide2.add_text('This second slide is a second step towards enlightenment.', 500, 3500)

mms.add_page(slide1)
mms.add_page(slide2)

payload = mms.encode()

sending the MMS

from cStringIO import StringIO
import socket

gw_host, gw_port = "10.188.239.143", 80 #ting

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((gw_host, gw_port))
s.send("POST %s HTTP/1.0\r\n" % "http://wholesale.mmsmvno.com/mms/wapenc")
s.send("Content-Type: application/vnd.wap.mms-message\r\n")
s.send("Content-Length: %d\r\n\r\n" % len(payload))

s.sendall(payload)

buf = StringIO()

while True:
data = s.recv(4096)
if not data:
break

buf.write(data)

s.close()
data = buf.getvalue()
buf.close()

print "PROXY RESPONSE", data

i would like to use your library inside my code.
how should i install it?

Hi,

Giving sms.data i'm taking the results.
same with sms.text and sms.number
But sms.cnt or sms.seq gives error.
How can i put in variables the cnt and seq values?

Thank u!

Hi

I tried the example, but it doesn't work, it says "invalid syntax"
Of course on my pc I used my phone number

from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit

sms = SmsSubmit("+44123231231", "hey how's it going?")
sms.class = 0
pdu = sms.to_pdu()[0]

print pdu.length, pdu.pdu

result:
File "send_sms.py", line 6
sms.class = 0
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax