blpapi.Topic¶

class blpapi.Topic¶

Used to identify the stream on which a message is published.

Topic objects are obtained from createTopics() on ProviderSession. They are used when adding a message to an Event for publishing using appendMessage() on EventFormatter.

destroy()¶: Destroy this Topic object.

isActive()¶

Returns: True if this topic was elected by the platform to become the primary publisher.
Return type: bool

isValid()¶

Returns: True if this Topic is valid and can be used to publish a message on.
Return type: bool

service()¶

Returns: The service for which this topic was created.
Return type: Service