cherrypy_utils 1.4.0

Collection of utility functions and modules for cherrypy web servers

Overview

This is a generic utility library full of helper functions relating to cherrypy webservice routines. Included are handlers for:

• authentication (authentication.py)
• sqlalchemy with cherrypy (cherrypy_sqlalchemy_utils.py & database.py)
• json parsing and constructing orm entities from json (json_utils.py)
• timestamp (ISO and posix epoch) parsing (timestamp.py)
• url construction and parsing from parts (similar to os.path.join) (url_utils.py)
• ldap login utilities (login/ldap_auth.py & login/models.py)

Usage

To use this package in your project, simply install it with pip install cherrypy_utils

Development

This package is developed using Pipenv for package management, which makes dealing with pip packages easier. Check out more here: https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/latest/install/#using-installed-packages

It also uses pyenv to manage multiple different installed versions of python. Currently, this package targets python 3.6.8.

The package uses the black formatter and enforces a strict formatting policy, automatic formatting on save is required.