simple-python-web-remote

Using the http.server module to facilitate remote control vie GET requests The aim is to a very simple setup for triggering updates or simply letting a system know that an event has occured, but using only http GET requests.

Instructions

Import and subclass RemoteControlHander:

from remotecontrol import RemoteControlHander

class TestHandler(RemoteControlHander):
    """testing handler"""

    keystring = 'ab:cd'

    def set_urls(self):
        self.urls = [
            ('^/noget/andet/$', self.itester),
        ]
    def itester(self):
        print('running insidetester')
        print(dir(self))

keystring is the auth string for all requests. Auth is not optional.

set_urls is called during init and must set self.urls to a list of two-tuples with a regex pattern first and a function indentifier second.

urls are evaluated from top to bottom with re.fullmatch(). Parsing of get parameters is not implimented, but could be. Inside your own functions you will have access to the entire Handler object as described in the python docs

The response has already been went when your custom code is run, so no rush to get done, but things like redirects and custom responses are not possible.

Now you are ready to run the server like so:

from http.server import HTTPServer

def run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=TestHandler):
    server_address = ('', 8000)
    httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
    httpd.serve_forever()

run()