from inspect import ismethod import warnings from webob import exc import six from .core import abort from .decorators import expose from .routing import lookup_controller, handle_lookup_traversal from .util import iscontroller, getargspec class RestController(object): ''' A base class for ``REST`` based controllers. Inherit from this class to implement a REST controller. ``RestController`` implements a set of routing functions which override the default pecan routing with behavior consistent with RESTful routing. This functionality covers navigation to the requested resource controllers, and the appropriate handling of both the common (``GET``, ``POST``, ``PUT``, ``DELETE``) as well as custom-defined REST action methods. For more on developing **RESTful** web applications with Pecan, see :ref:`rest`. ''' _custom_actions = {} def _get_args_for_controller(self, controller): """ Retrieve the arguments we actually care about. For Pecan applications that utilize thread locals, we should truncate the first argument, `self`. For applications that explicitly pass request/response references as the first controller arguments, we should truncate the first three arguments, `self, req, resp`. """ argspec = getargspec(controller) from pecan import request try: request.path except AttributeError: return argspec.args[3:] return argspec.args[1:] def _handle_bad_rest_arguments(self, controller, remainder, request): """ Ensure that the argspec for a discovered controller actually matched the positional arguments in the request path. If not, raise a webob.exc.HTTPBadRequest. """ argspec = self._get_args_for_controller(controller) fixed_args = len(argspec) - len( request.pecan.get('routing_args', []) ) if len(remainder) < fixed_args: # For controllers that are missing intermediate IDs # (e.g., /authors/books vs /authors/1/books), return a 404 for an # invalid path. abort(404) def _lookup_child(self, remainder): """ Lookup a child controller with a named path (handling Unicode paths properly for Python 2). """ try: controller = getattr(self, remainder, None) except UnicodeEncodeError: return None return controller @expose() def _route(self, args, request=None): ''' Routes a request to the appropriate controller and returns its result. Performs a bit of validation - refuses to route delete and put actions via a GET request). ''' if request is None: from pecan import request # convention uses "_method" to handle browser-unsupported methods method = request.params.get('_method', request.method).lower() # make sure DELETE/PUT requests don't use GET if request.method == 'GET' and method in ('delete', 'put'): abort(405) # check for nested controllers result = self._find_sub_controllers(args, request) if result: return result # handle the request handler = getattr( self, '_handle_%s' % method, self._handle_unknown_method ) try: if len(getargspec(handler).args) == 3: result = handler(method, args) else: result = handler(method, args, request) # # If the signature of the handler does not match the number # of remaining positional arguments, attempt to handle # a _lookup method (if it exists) # argspec = self._get_args_for_controller(result[0]) num_args = len(argspec) if num_args < len(args): _lookup_result = self._handle_lookup(args, request) if _lookup_result: return _lookup_result except (exc.HTTPClientError, exc.HTTPNotFound, exc.HTTPMethodNotAllowed) as e: # # If the matching handler results in a 400, 404, or 405, attempt to # handle a _lookup method (if it exists) # _lookup_result = self._handle_lookup(args, request) if _lookup_result: return _lookup_result # Build a correct Allow: header if isinstance(e, exc.HTTPMethodNotAllowed): def method_iter(): for func in ('get', 'get_one', 'get_all', 'new', 'edit', 'get_delete'): if self._find_controller(func): yield 'GET' break for method in ('HEAD', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'TRACE', 'PATCH'): func = method.lower() if self._find_controller(func): yield method e.allow = sorted(method_iter()) raise # return the result return result def _handle_lookup(self, args, request=None): if request is None: self._raise_method_deprecation_warning(self.handle_lookup) # filter empty strings from the arg list args = list(six.moves.filter(bool, args)) # check for lookup controllers lookup = getattr(self, '_lookup', None) if args and iscontroller(lookup): result = handle_lookup_traversal(lookup, args) if result: obj, remainder = result return lookup_controller(obj, remainder, request) def _find_controller(self, *args): ''' Returns the appropriate controller for routing a custom action. ''' for name in args: obj = self._lookup_child(name) if obj and iscontroller(obj): return obj return None def _find_sub_controllers(self, remainder, request): ''' Identifies the correct controller to route to by analyzing the request URI. ''' # need either a get_one or get to parse args method = None for name in ('get_one', 'get'): if hasattr(self, name): method = name break if not method: return # get the args to figure out how much to chop off args = self._get_args_for_controller(getattr(self, method)) fixed_args = len(args) - len( request.pecan.get('routing_args', []) ) var_args = getargspec(getattr(self, method)).varargs # attempt to locate a sub-controller if var_args: for i, item in enumerate(remainder): controller = self._lookup_child(item) if controller and not ismethod(controller): self._set_routing_args(request, remainder[:i]) return lookup_controller(controller, remainder[i + 1:], request) elif fixed_args < len(remainder) and hasattr( self, remainder[fixed_args] ): controller = self._lookup_child(remainder[fixed_args]) if not ismethod(controller): self._set_routing_args(request, remainder[:fixed_args]) return lookup_controller( controller, remainder[fixed_args + 1:], request ) def _handle_unknown_method(self, method, remainder, request=None): ''' Routes undefined actions (like RESET) to the appropriate controller. ''' if request is None: self._raise_method_deprecation_warning(self._handle_unknown_method) # try finding a post_{custom} or {custom} method first controller = self._find_controller('post_%s' % method, method) if controller: return controller, remainder # if no controller exists, try routing to a sub-controller; note that # since this isn't a safe GET verb, any local exposes are 405'd if remainder: if self._find_controller(remainder[0]): abort(405) sub_controller = self._lookup_child(remainder[0]) if sub_controller: return lookup_controller(sub_controller, remainder[1:], request) abort(405) def _handle_get(self, method, remainder, request=None): ''' Routes ``GET`` actions to the appropriate controller. ''' if request is None: self._raise_method_deprecation_warning(self._handle_get) # route to a get_all or get if no additional parts are available if not remainder or remainder == ['']: remainder = list(six.moves.filter(bool, remainder)) controller = self._find_controller('get_all', 'get') if controller: self._handle_bad_rest_arguments(controller, remainder, request) return controller, [] abort(405) method_name = remainder[-1] # check for new/edit/delete GET requests if method_name in ('new', 'edit', 'delete'): if method_name == 'delete': method_name = 'get_delete' controller = self._find_controller(method_name) if controller: return controller, remainder[:-1] match = self._handle_custom_action(method, remainder, request) if match: return match controller = self._lookup_child(remainder[0]) if controller and not ismethod(controller): return lookup_controller(controller, remainder[1:], request) # finally, check for the regular get_one/get requests controller = self._find_controller('get_one', 'get') if controller: self._handle_bad_rest_arguments(controller, remainder, request) return controller, remainder abort(405) def _handle_delete(self, method, remainder, request=None): ''' Routes ``DELETE`` actions to the appropriate controller. ''' if request is None: self._raise_method_deprecation_warning(self._handle_delete) if remainder: match = self._handle_custom_action(method, remainder, request) if match: return match controller = self._lookup_child(remainder[0]) if controller and not ismethod(controller): return lookup_controller(controller, remainder[1:], request) # check for post_delete/delete requests first controller = self._find_controller('post_delete', 'delete') if controller: return controller, remainder # if no controller exists, try routing to a sub-controller; note that # since this is a DELETE verb, any local exposes are 405'd if remainder: if self._find_controller(remainder[0]): abort(405) sub_controller = self._lookup_child(remainder[0]) if sub_controller: return lookup_controller(sub_controller, remainder[1:], request) abort(405) def _handle_post(self, method, remainder, request=None): ''' Routes ``POST`` requests. ''' if request is None: self._raise_method_deprecation_warning(self._handle_post) # check for custom POST/PUT requests if remainder: match = self._handle_custom_action(method, remainder, request) if match: return match controller = self._lookup_child(remainder[0]) if controller and not ismethod(controller): return lookup_controller(controller, remainder[1:], request) # check for regular POST/PUT requests controller = self._find_controller(method) if controller: return controller, remainder abort(405) def _handle_put(self, method, remainder, request=None): return self._handle_post(method, remainder, request) def _handle_custom_action(self, method, remainder, request=None): if request is None: self._raise_method_deprecation_warning(self._handle_custom_action) remainder = [r for r in remainder if r] if remainder: if method in ('put', 'delete'): # For PUT and DELETE, additional arguments are supplied, e.g., # DELETE /foo/XYZ method_name = remainder[0] remainder = remainder[1:] else: method_name = remainder[-1] remainder = remainder[:-1] if method.upper() in self._custom_actions.get(method_name, []): controller = self._find_controller( '%s_%s' % (method, method_name), method_name ) if controller: return controller, remainder def _set_routing_args(self, request, args): ''' Sets default routing arguments. ''' request.pecan.setdefault('routing_args', []).extend(args) def _raise_method_deprecation_warning(self, handler): warnings.warn( ( "The function signature for %s.%s.%s is changing " "in the next version of pecan.\nPlease update to: " "`%s(self, method, remainder, request)`." % ( self.__class__.__module__, self.__class__.__name__, handler.__name__, handler.__name__ ) ), DeprecationWarning )