'''
Simple and functional REST server for Python (2.7) using no dependencies beyond the Python standard library.
Features:
* Map URI patterns using regular expressions
* Map any/all the HTTP VERBS (GET, PUT, DELETE, POST)
* All responses and payloads are converted to/from JSON for you
* Easily serve static files: a URI can be mapped to a file, in which case just GET is supported
* You decide the media type (text/html, application/json, etc.)
* Correct HTTP response codes and basic error messages
* Simple REST client included! use the rest_call_json() method
As an example, let's support a simple key/value store. To test from the command line using curl:
curl "http://localhost:8080/records"
curl -X PUT -d '{"name": "Tal"}' "http://localhost:8080/record/1"
curl -X PUT -d '{"name": "Shiri"}' "http://localhost:8080/record/2"
curl "http://localhost:8080/records"
curl -X DELETE "http://localhost:8080/record/2"
curl "http://localhost:8080/records"
Create the file web/index.html if you'd like to test serving static files. It will be served from the root URI.
@author: Tal Liron (tliron @ github.com)
'''
import sys, os, re, shutil, json, urllib, urllib2, BaseHTTPServer
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
here = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
records = {}
def get_records(handler):
return records
def get_record(handler):
key = urllib.unquote(handler.path[8:])
return records[key] if key in records else None
def set_record(handler):
key = urllib.unquote(handler.path[8:])
payload = handler.get_payload()
records[key] = payload
return records[key]
def delete_record(handler):
key = urllib.unquote(handler.path[8:])
del records[key]
return True
def rest_call_json(url, payload=None, with_payload_method='PUT'):
'REST call with JSON decoding of the response and JSON payloads'
if payload:
if not isinstance(payload, basestring):
payload = json.dumps(payload)
response = urllib2.urlopen(MethodRequest(url, payload, {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, method=with_payload_method))
else:
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
response = response.read().decode()
return json.loads(response)
class MethodRequest(urllib2.Request):
'See: https://gist.github.com/logic/2715756'
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
if 'method' in kwargs:
self._method = kwargs['method']
del kwargs['method']
else:
self._method = None
return urllib2.Request.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
def get_method(self, *args, **kwargs):
return self._method if self._method is not None else urllib2.Request.get_method(self, *args, **kwargs)
class RESTRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.routes = {
r'^/$': {'file': 'web/index.html', 'media_type': 'text/html'},
r'^/records$': {'GET': get_records, 'media_type': 'application/json'},
r'^/record/': {'GET': get_record, 'PUT': set_record, 'DELETE': delete_record, 'media_type': 'application/json'}}
return BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
def do_HEAD(self):
self.handle_method('HEAD')
def do_GET(self):
self.handle_method('GET')
def do_POST(self):
self.handle_method('POST')
def do_PUT(self):
self.handle_method('PUT')
def do_DELETE(self):
self.handle_method('DELETE')
def get_payload(self):
payload_len = int(self.headers.getheader('content-length', 0))
payload = self.rfile.read(payload_len)
payload = json.loads(payload)
return payload
def handle_method(self, method):
route = self.get_route()
if route is None:
self.send_response(404)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write('Route not found\n')
else:
if method == 'HEAD':
self.send_response(200)
if 'media_type' in route:
self.send_header('Content-type', route['media_type'])
self.end_headers()
else:
if 'file' in route:
if method == 'GET':
try:
f = open(os.path.join(here, route['file']))
try:
self.send_response(200)
if 'media_type' in route:
self.send_header('Content-type', route['media_type'])
self.end_headers()
shutil.copyfileobj(f, self.wfile)
finally:
f.close()
except:
self.send_response(404)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write('File not found\n')
else:
self.send_response(405)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write('Only GET is supported\n')
else:
if method in route:
content = route[method](self)
if content is not None:
self.send_response(200)
if 'media_type' in route:
self.send_header('Content-type', route['media_type'])
self.end_headers()
if method != 'DELETE':
self.wfile.write(json.dumps(content))
else:
self.send_response(404)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write('Not found\n')
else:
self.send_response(405)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(method + ' is not supported\n')
def get_route(self):
for path, route in self.routes.iteritems():
if re.match(path, self.path):
return route
return None
def rest_server(port):
'Starts the REST server'
http_server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', port), RESTRequestHandler)
print 'Starting HTTP server at port %d' % port
try:
http_server.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
pass
print 'Stopping HTTP server'
http_server.server_close()
def main(argv):
rest_server(8080)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main(sys.argv[1:])