sanic_compress 0.1.0

An extension which allows you to easily gzip your Sanic responses.

sanic\_compress
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

sanic\_compress is an extension which allows you to easily gzip your
Sanic responses. It is a port of the
`Flask-Compress <https://github.com/libwilliam/flask-compress>`__
extension.

Installation
------------

Install with ``pip``:

``pip install sanic_compress``

Usage
-----

Usage is simple. Simply pass in the Sanic app object to the ``Compress``
class, and responses will be gzipped.

.. code:: python

from sanic import Sanic
from sanic_compress import Compress

app = Sanic(__name__)
Compress(app)

Alternatively, if you want to initialize the ``Compress`` class later,
you can do so with the ``init_app`` method;

.. code:: python

compress = Compress()
app = Flask(__name__)
compress.init_app(app)

Options
-------

Within the Sanic application config you can provide the following
settings to control the behavior of sanic\_compress. None of the
settings are required.

+---------+--------------+----------+
| Option | Description | Default |
+=========+==============+==========+
| ``COMPR | Set the list | ``[``\ \ |
| ESS_MIM | of mimetypes | ``'text |
| ETYPES` | to compress | /html',` |
| ` | here. | `\ \ ``' |
| | | text/css |
| | | ',``\ \ |
| | | ``'text/ |
| | | xml',``\ |
| | | \ ``'ap |
| | | plicatio |
| | | n/json', |
| | | ``\ \ `` |
| | | 'applica |
| | | tion/jav |
| | | ascript' |
| | | ``\ \ `` |
| | | ]`` |
+---------+--------------+----------+
| ``COMPR | Specifies | ``6`` |
| ESS_LEV | the gzip | |
| EL`` | compression | |
| | level (1-9). | |
+---------+--------------+----------+
| ``COMPR | Specifies | ``500`` |
| ESS_MIN | the minimum | |
| _SIZE`` | file size | |
| | threshold | |
| | for | |
| | compressing | |
| | files. | |
+---------+--------------+----------+

A higher ``COMPRESS_LEVEL`` will result in a gzipped response that is
smaller, but the compression will take longer.

Example of using custom configuration:

::

from sanic import Sanic
from sanic_compress import Compress

app = Sanic(__name__)
app.config['COMPRESS_MIMETYPES'] = set(['text/html', 'application/json'])
app.config['COMPRESS_LEVEL'] = 4
app.config['COMPRESS_MIN_SIZE'] = 300
Compress(app)

Note about gzipping static files:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sanic is not at heart a file server. You should consider serving static
files with nginx or on a separate file server.