servir

an extensible async background server for python

table of contents

• installation
• usage
• license

installation

pip install servir

usage

import pathlib

import requests
from servir import Provider

# create a provider
provider = Provider()


### File (supports range requests)

path = pathlib.Path("hello.txt")
path.write_text("hello, world")

file_resource = provider.create(path)
response = requests.get(file_resource.url)
assert response.text == "hello, world"
assert "text/plain" in response.headers["Content-Type"] 

### Directory (supports range requests)

root = pathlib.Path("data_dir")
root.mkdir()
(root / "hello.txt").write_text("hello, world")

dir_resource = provider.create(root)
response = requests.get(file_resource.url + "/hello.txt")
assert response.text == "hello, world"
assert "text/plain" in response.headers["Content-Type"]


### In-memory

data = "a,b,c,\n1,2,3,\n4,5,6"

content_resource = provider.create(data, extension=".csv")
response = requests.get(content_resource.url)
assert response.text == data
assert "text/csv" in response.headers["Content-Type"]

license

servir is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.