hotfn 0.0.5

Library to provide HTTP over STDIN/STDOUT

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HTTP over STDIN/STDOUT lib parser
=================================

Purpose of this library to provide simple interface to parse HTTP 1.1 requests represented as string

Raw HTTP request
----------------

Parses raw HTTP request that contains:
- method
- route + query
- headers
- protocol version
Optionally:
- data

Raw HTTP request may have next look:

GET /v1/apps?something=something&etc=etc HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Content-Length: 5
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent: curl/7.51.0

hello

Each new line define by set of special characters:

\n
\r

and combination is:

\r\n

This type of class stands for HTTP request parsing to a sane structure of:

- HTTP request method
- HTTP request URL
- HTTP request query string represented as map
- HTTP request headers represented as map
- HTTP protocol version represented as tuple of major and minor versions
- HTTP request body

```python
import os
import sys

from hotfn.http import request

with os.fdopen(sys.stdin.fileno(), 'rb') as stdin:
req = request.RawRequest(stdin)
method, url, query_parameters, headers, (major, minor), body = req.parse_raw_request()
```

Raw HTTP response
-----------------

This type of class stands for transforming HTTP request object into valid string representation

```python
import sys
import os

from hotfn.http import request
from hotfn.http import response

with os.fdopen(sys.stdin.fileno(), 'rb') as stdin:
req = request.RawRequest(stdin)
method, url, query_parameters, headers, (major, minor), body = req.parse_raw_request()
resp = response.RawResponse((major, minor), 200, "OK", response_data=body)
with os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(), 'wb') as stdout:
resp.dump(stdout)
```

Example
-------

Assume we have HTTP 1.1 request:
```bash
GET /v1/apps?something=something&etc=etc HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Content-Length: 11
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent: curl/7.51.0

hello:hello

```
This request can be transformed into data structure described above.
Using code snippet mentioned above request data can be used to assemble a response object of the following view:
```bash
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 11
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

hello:hello

```
This is totally valid HTTP response object.

Notes
-----

Please be aware that response object by default sets content type as `text/plain; charset=utf-8`. If you need to change it use following code:
```python
import os
import sys

from hotfn.http import request
from hotfn.http import response

with os.fdopen(sys.stdin.fileno(), 'rb') as stdin:
req = request.RawRequest(stdin)
method, url, query_parameters, headers, (major, minor), body = req.parse_raw_request()
resp = response.RawResponse((major, minor), 200, "OK", response_data=body)
resp.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
with os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(), 'wb') as stdout:
resp.dump(stdout)

```

Handling Hot Functions
----------------------

A main loop is supplied that can repeatedly call a user function with a series of HTTP requests.
(TODO: should this use the WSGI API?)

In order to utilise this, you can write your `app.py` as follows:

```python
from hotfn.http import main
from hotfn.http import response


def app(method, url, query_params, headers, proto, body_stream):
return response.RawResponse(proto, 200, "OK", body_stream.readall())


if __name__ == "__main__":
main.main(app)

```

Automatic input coercions
-------------------------

Decorators are provided that will attempt to coerce input values to Python types.
Some attempt is made to coerce return values from these functions also:

```python
from hotfn.http import main


@main.coerce_input_to_content_type
def app(s):
"""
s is a request body, it's type depends on content type
"""
return s


if __name__ == "__main__":
main.main(app)

```