t.w.r.Resource : class documentation

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Known subclasses: twisted.web.distrib.ResourceSubscription, twisted.web.distrib.UserDirectory, twisted.web.proxy.ReverseProxyResource, twisted.web.resource.ErrorPage, twisted.web.rewrite.RewriterResource, twisted.web.script.PythonScript, twisted.web.script.ResourceScriptDirectory, twisted.web.script.ResourceScriptWrapper, twisted.web.soap.SOAPPublisher, twisted.web.static.ASISProcessor, twisted.web.static.Data, twisted.web.static.DirectoryLister, twisted.web.static.File, twisted.web.static.Redirect, twisted.web.twcgi.CGIDirectory, twisted.web.twcgi.CGIScript, twisted.web.util.DeferredResource, twisted.web.util.ParentRedirect, twisted.web.util.Redirect, twisted.web.vhost._HostResource, twisted.web.vhost.NameVirtualHost, twisted.web.vhost.VHostMonsterResource, twisted.web.xmlrpc.XMLRPC

Implements interfaces: twisted.web.resource.IResource

I define a web-accessible resource.

I serve 2 main purposes; one is to provide a standard representation for what HTTP specification calls an 'entity', and the other is to provide an abstract directory structure for URL retrieval.

Method __init__ Initialize.
Method listStaticNames Undocumented
Method listStaticEntities Undocumented
Method listNames Undocumented
Method listEntities Undocumented
Method listDynamicNames Undocumented
Method listDynamicEntities Undocumented
Method getStaticEntity Undocumented
Method getDynamicEntity Undocumented
Method delEntity Undocumented
Method reallyPutEntity Undocumented
Method getChild Retrieve a 'child' resource from me.
Method getChildWithDefault Retrieve a static or dynamically generated child resource from me.
Method getChildForRequest Undocumented
Method putChild Register a static child.
Method render Render a given resource. See IResource's render method.
Method render_HEAD Default handling of HEAD method.
def __init__(self): (source)
Initialize.
def listStaticNames(self): (source)
Undocumented
def listStaticEntities(self): (source)
Undocumented
def listNames(self): (source)
Undocumented
def listEntities(self): (source)
Undocumented
def listDynamicNames(self): (source)
Undocumented
def listDynamicEntities(self, request=None): (source)
Undocumented
def getStaticEntity(self, name): (source)
Undocumented
def getDynamicEntity(self, name, request): (source)
Undocumented
def delEntity(self, name): (source)
Undocumented
def reallyPutEntity(self, name, entity): (source)
Undocumented
def getChild(self, path, request): (source)
Retrieve a 'child' resource from me.

Implement this to create dynamic resource generation -- resources which are always available may be registered with self.putChild().

This will not be called if the class-level variable 'isLeaf' is set in your subclass; instead, the 'postpath' attribute of the request will be left as a list of the remaining path elements.

For example, the URL /foo/bar/baz will normally be:

 | site.resource.getChild('foo').getChild('bar').getChild('baz').

However, if the resource returned by 'bar' has isLeaf set to true, then the getChild call will never be made on it.

Parameterspatha string, describing the child
requesta twisted.web.server.Request specifying meta-information about the request that is being made for this child.
def getChildWithDefault(self, path, request): (source)
Retrieve a static or dynamically generated child resource from me.

First checks if a resource was added manually by putChild, and then call getChild to check for dynamic resources. Only override if you want to affect behaviour of all child lookups, rather than just dynamic ones.

This will check to see if I have a pre-registered child resource of the given name, and call getChild if I do not.

def getChildForRequest(self, request): (source)
Undocumented
def putChild(self, path, child): (source)
Register a static child.

You almost certainly don't want '/' in your path. If you intended to have the root of a folder, e.g. /foo/, you want path to be ''.

def render(self, request): (source)
Render a given resource. See IResource's render method.

I delegate to methods of self with the form 'render_METHOD' where METHOD is the HTTP that was used to make the request. Examples: render_GET, render_HEAD, render_POST, and so on. Generally you should implement those methods instead of overriding this one.

render_METHOD methods are expected to return a string which will be the rendered page, unless the return value is twisted.web.server.NOT_DONE_YET, in which case it is this class's responsibility to write the results to request.write(data), then call request.finish().

Old code that overrides render() directly is likewise expected to return a string or NOT_DONE_YET.

def render_HEAD(self, request): (source)
Default handling of HEAD method.

I just return self.render_GET(request). When method is HEAD, the framework will handle this correctly.

API Documentation for Twisted, generated by pydoctor at 2012-06-04 17:20:01.