Source code for milla.controllers

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'''Stub controller classes

These classes can be used as base classes for controllers. While any
callable can technically be a controller, using a class that inherits
from one or more of these classes can make things significantly easier.

:Created: Mar 27, 2011
:Author: dustin
'''

import datetime
import milla.util
import os
try:
    import pkg_resources
except ImportError:
    pkg_resources = None


[docs]class Controller(object): '''The base controller class This class simply provides empty ``__before__`` and ``__after__`` methods to facilitate cooperative multiple inheritance. ''' def __before__(self, request): pass def __after__(self, request): pass
[docs]class FaviconController(Controller): '''A controller for the "favicon" This controller is specifically suited to serve a site "favicon" or bookmark icon. By default, it will serve the *Milla* icon, but you can pass an alternate filename to the constructor. :param icon: Path to an icon to serve :param content_type: Internet media type describing the type of image used as the favicon, defaults to 'image/x-icon' (Windows ICO format) ''' #: Number of days in the future to set the cache expiration for the icon EXPIRY_DAYS = 365 def __init__(self, icon=None, content_type='image/x-icon'): try: if icon: self.icon = open(icon, 'rb') self.content_type = content_type elif pkg_resources: self.icon = pkg_resources.resource_stream('milla', 'milla.ico') self.content_type = 'image/x-icon' else: icon = os.path.join( os.path.dirname(milla.__file__), 'milla.ico' ) self.icon = open(icon, 'rb') self.content_type = 'image/x-icon' except (IOError, OSError): self.icon = self.content_type = None def __call__(self, request): if not self.icon: raise milla.HTTPNotFound response = milla.Response() response.app_iter = self.icon response.headers['Content-Type'] = self.content_type expires = (datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(days=self.EXPIRY_DAYS)) response.headers['Expires'] = milla.util.http_date(expires) return response
[docs]class HTTPVerbController(Controller): '''A controller that delegates requests based on the HTTP method Subclasses of this controller should have an instance method for every HTTP method they support. For example, to support the ``GET`` and ``POST`` methods, a class might look like this: .. code-block:: python class MyController(HTTPVerbController): def GET(self, request): return 'Hello, world!' HEAD = GET def POST(self, request): return 'Thanks!' This example also allows ``HEAD`` requests, by processing them as ``GET`` requests. *Milla* handles this correctly, as it does not send a response body for ``HEAD`` requests, even if the controller callable returns one. ''' def __call__(self, request, *args, **kwargs): try: func = getattr(self, request.method) except AttributeError: raise milla.HTTPMethodNotAllowed return func(request, *args, **kwargs) @property def allowed_methods(self): for attr in dir(self): if attr.upper() == attr: yield attr