talkback 1.5

A responder framework to write responders to http requests

talkback

Respond with your response to requests

Use routes file to map url path to responders

See examples app in https://www.github.com/madhukumarseshadri/talkweb3

Examples of GET / POST / PUT / DELETE

Examples of managing formdata,

In the responder, self.qs is query string.

For GET / POST, form submission html forms,

use

self.processform()

in the responder to get the formdata [ url encoded or multipart or text/plain ]

After using processform, self.formdata.data is,

For GET, self.formdata.data is a dict of field names, value pairs and field name and values are python strings and percent decoded and plus sub-ed. Get the form values as shown below,

type,fieldvalue,filename,content_type=self.formdata.data['fieldname'] #or
type,fieldvalue,filename,content_type=self.formdata['fieldname']
#type - empty or b'f' with f denoting input is file
#fieldvalue -  contents of file as bytes or field value
#filename - name of the file if file
#content_type - content_type of file if file 

For POST, self.formdata.data - dict is byte field name value pairs if post is mutlipart/formdata For url encoding posts, default encoding is utf8 no need to provide, provide python supported encoding or none for bytes in self.processforms(encoding=None). For utf8, values are percent decoded and plus sub-ed

type,fieldvalue,filename,content_type=self.formdata.data['fieldname'] #or
type,fieldvalue,filename,content_type=self.formdata['fieldname']

For multipart/formdata with files,

type,fieldvalue,filename,content_type=self.formdata.data[b'fieldname'] or
type,fieldvalue,filename,content_type=self.formdata[b'file']
for type,fieldvalue,filename,content_type in self.formdata[b'files']:
	#input is multiple files

AJAX formdata GET and POST

GET / POST forms

See examples app

For PUT,

use self.processinput() within a responder

For DELETE

use self.processinput() within a responder

OPTIONS / HEAD / CONNECT AND TRACE for http server to manage

Examples for using session and cookies - see session.py in examples

fskeeper - keeps the sesson as file and pickles the session object to file sqlkeeper - keepes the session in the database in session table