[Twisted-Python] subclassing twisted.web?

[Bob Ippolito]

One thing of note is that if you install 0.15.0 via 'python setup.py 
install', it doesn't install either forum or metrics.

Maybe he just didn't see it?

-bob

On Monday, February 11, 2002, at 09:34 PM, Sean Riley wrote:

> if you are building a forum-type application, I'd be interested in 
> talking
> about why you think twisted.forum is inappropriate. it was intended 
> that it
> could be used within an existing site, but that extensibility may not be
> apparent (and i know, it has no documentation).
>
> Maybe we could explore ways to make it useful to you - and more useful 
> to
> other people moving forward.
>
> The database interaction layer is extremely separate from the 
> presentation
> layer - it was intended that different presentation formats could 
> access the
> same forum database with the web interface being just the first.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: twisted-python-admin at twistedmatrix.com
> [mailto:twisted-python-admin at twistedmatrix.com]On Behalf Of Kendall
> Clark
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 1:09 PM
> To: twisted-python
> Subject: [Twisted-Python] subclassing twisted.web?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm playing around with some REST ideas[1], and I want to use this
> approach to build a web-forum-like[2] app for one of my busy content
> sites. I want to use a standalone, Python-based http server for this
> app, so I've been looking at the simple http servers in the Python
> lib, Zope's Z3, Medusa, and twisted.web.
>
> For various reasons[3], I'd like to try twisted.web first, but I have a
> few qestions --
>
> (1) Is there a 'servlet' or other programming model to use with
>     twisted.web? If so, is there any example code? How can I get
>     started?
>
>     In other words, how are people building Web apps with twisted.web?
>
> (2) I'm also playing around with the idea of 'ad hoc http servers',
>     i.e., lightweight servers that do one thing and one thing well,
>     which gets integrated into an existing site using something like
>     Apache's mod_rewrite and mod_proxy.
>
>     So if I wanted to build a specialized twisted.web that only did
>     one thing, is there a class I can subclass or methods I can
>     override?
>
>     In other words, I want to specialize the bit(s) of twisted.web
>     which map REQUEST.URI to a local entity; and I want to do so for
>     particular HTTP methods (specifically, GET, POST, DELETE) and
>     return the appropriate non-implemented HTTP response for
>     everything else (i.e., 404 for non-existent URIs and <whatever>
>     for the other HTTP methods).
>
> I looked at the twisted.web source briefly, but nothing leapt out at
> me, alas.
>
> Thanks,
> Kendall Clark
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi
>
> [2]  Yes, I looked at twisted.forum long enough to know that I can't
>      use it; this forum app has to be fairly specialized to fit into
>      an existing site.
>
> [3]  If for no other reason, Z3 doesn't seem to have been busted out
>      of Zope yet (as has ZODB, yay!), and I don't have the time or
>      energy to work on that just to use it cleanly. Plus, I'm looking
>      for reasons to use twisted.
>
>
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