mimerender is a Python module for RESTful resource variant selection using the HTTP Accept header
It acts as a decorator that wraps a HTTP request handler to select the correct render function for a given HTTP Accept header. It uses mimeparse to parse the accept string and select the best available representation.
Support for web.py, Flask and Bottle is available out of the box and it's easy to add support for your favourite framework, just extend the MimeRenderBase class.
from flask import Flask
import json
import mimerender
mimerender = mimerender.FlaskMimeRender()
render_xml = lambda message: '<message>%s</message>'%message
render_json = lambda **args: json.dumps(args)
render_html = lambda message: '<html><body>%s</body></html>'%message
render_txt = lambda message: message
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
@app.route('/<name>')
@mimerender(
default = 'html',
html = render_html,
xml = render_xml,
json = render_json,
txt = render_txt
)
def greet(name='world'):
return {'message': 'Hello, ' + name + '!'}
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(port=8080)Then you can do:
$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/html" localhost:8080/x
$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/xml" localhost:8080/x
$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" localhost:8080/x
$ curl -i -H "Accept: text/plain" localhost:8080/xand get results that make sense.
In the examples directory you will find examples for web.py and Bottle as well.
mimerender is in PyPI, so it's as easy as doing:
$ pip install mimerender