aiohttp 0.18.2

http client/server for asyncio

http client/server for asyncio

Features

• Supports both client and server side of HTTP protocol.

• Supports both client and server Web-Sockets out-of-the-box.

• Web-server has middlewares and pluggable routing.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.4.1

• chardet https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet

Optionally you may install cChardet library: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cchardet/1.0.0

License

aiohttp is offered under the Apache 2 license.

Documentation

http://aiohttp.readthedocs.org/

Source code

The latest developer version is available in a github repository: https://github.com/KeepSafe/aiohttp

Benchmarks

If you are interested in by efficiency, AsyncIO community maintains a list of benchmarks on the official wiki: https://github.com/python/asyncio/wiki/Benchmarks

Getting started

Client

To retrieve something from the web:

import aiohttp
import asyncio

async def get_body(client, url):
    async with client.get(url) as response:
        return await response.read()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    client = aiohttp.ClientSession(loop=loop)
    raw_html = loop.run_until_complete(get_body(client, 'http://python.org'))
    print(raw_html)
    client.close()

If you want to use timeouts for aiohttp client please use standard asyncio approach:

yield from asyncio.wait_for(client.get(url), 10)

Server

This is simple usage example:

import asyncio
from aiohttp import web

async def handle(request):
    name = request.match_info.get('name', "Anonymous")
    text = "Hello, " + name
    return web.Response(body=text.encode('utf-8'))

async def wshandler(request):
    ws = web.WebSocketResponse()
    ws.start(request)

    while True:
        msg = await ws.receive()

        if msg.tp == web.MsgType.text:
            ws.send_str("Hello, {}".format(msg.data))
        elif msg.tp == web.MsgType.binary:
            ws.send_bytes(msg.data)
        elif msg.tp == web.MsgType.close:
            break

    return ws


async def init(loop):
    app = web.Application(loop=loop)
    app.router.add_route('GET', '/echo', wshandler)
    app.router.add_route('GET', '/{name}', handle)

    srv = await loop.create_server(app.make_handler(),
                                        '127.0.0.1', 8080)
    print("Server started at http://127.0.0.1:8080")
    return srv

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(init(loop))
loop.run_forever()

Note: examples are written for Python 3.5+ and utilize PEP-492 aka async/await. If you are using Python 3.4 please replace await with yield from and async def with @coroutine e.g.:

async def coro(...):
    ret = await f()

shoud be replaced by:

@asyncio.coroutine
def coro(...):
    ret = yield from f()

CHANGES

0.18.2 (22-10-2015)

• Fix regression for OpenSSL < 1.0.0 #583

0.18.1 (20-10-2015)

• Relax rule for router names: they may contain dots and columns starting from now

0.18.0 (19-10-2015)

• Use errors.HttpProcessingError.message as HTTP error reason and message #459

• Optimize cythonized multidict a bit

• Change repr’s of multidicts and multidict views

• default headers in ClientSession are now case-insensitive

• Make ‘=’ char and ‘wss://’ schema safe in urls #477

• ClientResponse.close() forces connection closing by default from now #479 N.B. Backward incompatible change: was .close(force=False) Using `force parameter for the method is deprecated: use .release() instead.

• Properly requote URL’s path #480

• add skip_auto_headers parameter for client API #486

• Properly parse URL path in aiohttp.web.Request #489

• Raise RuntimeError when chunked enabled and HTTP is 1.0 #488

• Fix a bug with processing io.BytesIO as data parameter for client API #500

• Skip auto-generation of Content-Type header #507

• Use sendfile facility for static file handling #503

• Default response_factory in app.router.add_static now is StreamResponse, not None. The functionality is not changed if default is not specified.

• Drop ClientResponse.message attribute, it was always implementation detail.

• Streams are optimized for speed and mostly memory in case of a big HTTP message sizes #496

• Fix a bug for server-side cookies for dropping cookie and setting it again without Max-Age parameter.

• Don’t trim redirect URL in client API #499

• Extend precision of access log “D” to milliseconds #527

• Deprecate StreamResponse.start() method in favor of StreamResponse.prepare() coroutine #525

  .start() is still supported but responses begun with .start() doesn’t call signal for response preparing to be sent.

• Add StreamReader.__repr__

• Drop Python 3.3 support, from now minimal required version is Python 3.4.1 #541

• Add async with support for ClientSession.request() and family #536

• Ignore message body on 204 and 304 responses #505

• TCPConnector processed both IPv4 and IPv6 by default #559

• Add .routes() view for urldispatcher #519

• Route name should be a valid identifier name from now #567

• Implement server signals #562

• Drop an year-old deprecated files parameter from client API.

• Added async for support for aiohttp stream #542