pyhiapi

The API that just says hi!

A very simple API endpoint, easily deployable for testing purposes.

Installation

sudo pip install pyhiapi

Usage

usage: hi.py [-h] [-b BIND] [-f RESPONSE_FILE] [-p PORT] [-r CODE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -b BIND, --bind-address BIND
                        Address to bind the server to
  -f RESPONSE_FILE, --response-file RESPONSE_FILE
                        A file containing a custom response message
  -p PORT, --port PORT  The port to listen on
  -r CODE, --response_code CODE
                        The response code to send back to requests

hiapi defaults to localhost:4000 and a 200 OK response.

You can override all command line arguments using the following environment variables:

• HIAPI_BIND_ADDR
• HIAPI_RESPONSE_FILE
• HIAPI_PORT
• HIAPI_RESPONSE_CODE

When these variables are present, the corresponding command line arguments will be *completely ignored.

Testing

You can just curl the service, perhaps like this:

$ curl -i http://localhost:4000/

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 4
Server: Werkzeug/0.9.6 Python/2.7.8
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:38:14 GMT

Hi!