blpapi.Topic

class blpapi.Topic(handle=None, sessions=None)

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 the handle using stored dtor

Return type:: None

isActive()

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

isValid()

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

service()

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