asgi-lifespan

Modular components for adding lifespan protocol support to ASGI apps and libraries.

Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
  • Adding lifespan to ASGI apps
  • Sending lifespan events
• API Reference
  • Lifespan
  • LifespanManager
  • LifespanMiddleware

Features

• Create a lifespan-capable ASGI app with event handler registration support using Lifespan.
• Add lifespan support to an ASGI app using LifespanMiddleware.
• Send lifespan events to an ASGI app (e.g. for testing) using LifespanManager.
• Support for asyncio, trio and curio (provided by anyio).
• Fully type-annotated.
• 100% test coverage.

Installation

pip install asgi-lifespan

Usage

Adding lifespan to ASGI apps

from asgi_lifespan import Lifespan, LifespanMiddleware


# 'Lifespan' is a standalone ASGI app.
# It implements the lifespan protocol,
# and allows registering lifespan event handlers.

lifespan = Lifespan()


@lifespan.on_event("startup")
async def startup():
    print("Starting up...")


@lifespan.on_event("shutdown")
async def shutdown():
    print("Shutting down...")


# Sync event handlers and an imperative syntax are supported too.


def more_shutdown():
    print("Bye!")


lifespan.add_event_handler("shutdown", more_shutdown)


# Example ASGI app. We're using a "Hello, world" application here,
# but any ASGI-compliant callable will do.

async def app(scope, receive, send):
    assert scope["type"] == "http"
    output = b"Hello, World!"
    headers = [
        (b"content-type", "text/plain"),
        (b"content-length", str(len(output)))
    ]
    await send(
        {"type": "http.response.start", "status": 200, "headers": headers}
    )
    await send({"type": "http.response.body", "body": output})


# 'LifespanMiddleware' returns an ASGI app.
# It forwards lifespan requests to 'lifespan',
# and anything else goes to 'app'.

app = LifespanMiddleware(app, lifespan=lifespan)

Save this script as app.py. You can serve this application with an ASGI server such as uvicorn:

uvicorn app:app

You should get the following output:

INFO: Started server process [2407]
INFO: Waiting for application startup.
Starting up...
INFO: Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Stop the server using Ctrl+C, and you should get the following output:

INFO: Shutting down
INFO: Waiting for application shutdown.
Shutting down...
Bye!
INFO: Finished server process [2407]

Sending lifespan events

To programmatically send ASGI lifespan events to an ASGI app, use LifespanManager. This is particularly useful for testing and/or making requests using an ASGI-capable HTTP client such as HTTPX.

from asgi_lifespan import Lifespan, LifespanManager


# Example lifespan-capable ASGI app.
# (Doesn't need to be a `Lifespan` instance.
# Any ASGI app implementing the lifespan protocol will do.)

app = Lifespan()


@app.on_event("startup")
async def startup():
    print("Starting up...")


@app.on_event("shutdown")
async def shutdown():
    print("Shutting down...")


async def main():
    async with LifespanManager(app):
        print("We're in!")
        # Maybe make some requests to 'app'
        # using an ASGI-capable test client here?

Note: if LifespanManager detects that the lifespan protocol isn't supported, a LifespanNotSupported exception is raised. To silence this exception, use LifespanManager(app, ignore_unsupported=True).

Save this script as main.py. You can run it with any of the supported async libraries:

# Add one of these at the bottom of 'main.py'.

import asyncio
asyncio.run(main())

import trio
trio.run(main)

import curio
curio.run(main)

Run $ python main.py in your terminal, and you should get the following output:

Starting up...
We're in!
Shutting down...

API Reference

Lifespan

def __init__(self, on_startup: Callable = None, on_shutdown: Callable = None)

A standalone ASGI app that implements the lifespan protocol and supports registering event handlers.

Example

lifespan = Lifespan()

Parameters

• on_startup (Callable): an optional initial startup event handler.
• on_shutdown (Callable): an optional initial shutdown event handler.

add_event_handler

def add_event_handler(self, event_type: str, func: Callable[[], None]) -> None

Register a callback to be called when the application starts up or shuts down.

Imperative version of .on_event().

Example

async def on_startup():
    ...

lifespan.add_event_handler("startup", on_startup)

Parameters

• event_type (str): one of "startup" or "shutdown".
• func (Callable): a callback. Can be sync or async.

on_event

def on_event(self, event_type: str) -> Callable[[], None]

Register a callback to be called when the application starts up or shuts down.

Decorator version of .add_event_handler().

Example

@lifespan.on_event("startup")
async def on_startup():
    ...

Parameters

• event_type (str): one of "startup" or "shutdown".

__call__

async def __call__(self, scope: dict, receive: Callable, send: Callable) -> None

ASGI 3 implementation.

LifespanManager

def __init__(
    self,
    app: Callable,
    startup_timeout: Optional[float] = 5,
    shutdown_timeout: Optional[float] = 5,
)

An asynchronous context manager that starts up an ASGI app on enter and shuts it down on exit.

More precisely:

• On enter, start a lifespan request to app in the background, then send the lifespan.startup event and wait for the application to send lifespan.startup.complete.
• On exit, send lifespan.shutdown event and wait for the application to send lifespan.shutdown.complete.
• If an exception occurs during startup or in the body of the async with block, it bubbles up and no shutdown is performed.

Example

async with LifespanManager(app):
    # 'app' was started up.
    ...

# 'app' was shut down.

Parameters

• app (Callable): an ASGI application.
• startup_timeout (Optional[float], defaults to 5): maximum number of seconds to wait for the application to startup. Use None for no timeout.
• shutdown_timeout (Optional[float], defaults to 5): maximum number of seconds to wait for the application to shutdown. Use None for no timeout.

Raises

• LifespanNotSupported: if the application does not seem to support the lifespan protocol. This is detected by the application raising an exception during startup without having called receive() yet. For example, this may be because the application failed on a statement such as assert scope["type"] == "http". (Rationale: if the app supported the lifespan protocol, it should have received the lifespan.startup ASGI message without failing.)
• TimeoutError: if startup or shutdown timed out.
• Exception: any exception raised by the application (during startup, shutdown, or within the async with body) that does not indicate it does not support the lifespan protocol.

LifespanMiddleware

def __init__(self, app: Callable, lifespan: Callable)

An ASGI middleware that forwards "lifespan" requests to lifespan and anything else to app.

Example

app = LifespanMiddleware(app, lifespan=lifespan)

This is roughly equivalent to:

default = app

async def app(scope, receive, send):
    if scope["type"] == "lifespan":
        await lifespan(scope, receive, send)
    else:
        await default(scope, receive, send)

Parameters

• app (Callable): an ASGI application to be wrapped by the middleware.
• lifespan (Callable): an ASGI application.
  • Can be a Lifespan instance, but that is not mandatory.
  • This will only be given "lifespan" ASGI scope types, so it is safe (and recommended) to use assert scope["type"] == "lifespan" in custom implementations.

__call__

async def __call__(self, scope: dict, receive: Callable, send: Callable) -> None

ASGI 3 implementation.

License

MIT

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

Unreleased

0.3.1 (September 29, 2019)

Added

• Add configurable timeouts to LifespanManager. (Pull #10)

0.3.0 (September 29, 2019)

Added

• Add LifespanManager for sending lifespan events into an ASGI app. (Pull #5)

0.2.0 (September 28, 2019)

Added

• Add LifespanMiddleware, an ASGI middleware to add lifespan support to an ASGI app. (Pull #9)

0.1.0 (September 28, 2019)

Added

• Add Lifespan, an ASGI app implementing the lifespan protocol with event handler registration support. (Pull #7)

0.0.2 (September 28, 2019)

Fixed

• Installation from PyPI used to fail due to missing MANIFEST.in.

0.0.1 (September 28, 2019)

Added

• Empty package.