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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2014, 2015 OpenMarket Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+""" This module contains base REST classes for constructing REST servlets. """
+
+from synapse.api.errors import SynapseError
+
+import logging
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class RestServlet(object):
+
+ """ A Synapse REST Servlet.
+
+ An implementing class can either provide its own custom 'register' method,
+ or use the automatic pattern handling provided by the base class.
+
+ To use this latter, the implementing class instead provides a `PATTERN`
+ class attribute containing a pre-compiled regular expression. The automatic
+ register method will then use this method to register any of the following
+ instance methods associated with the corresponding HTTP method:
+
+ on_GET
+ on_PUT
+ on_POST
+ on_DELETE
+ on_OPTIONS
+
+ Automatically handles turning CodeMessageExceptions thrown by these methods
+ into the appropriate HTTP response.
+ """
+
+ def register(self, http_server):
+ """ Register this servlet with the given HTTP server. """
+ if hasattr(self, "PATTERN"):
+ pattern = self.PATTERN
+
+ for method in ("GET", "PUT", "POST", "OPTIONS", "DELETE"):
+ if hasattr(self, "on_%s" % (method)):
+ method_handler = getattr(self, "on_%s" % (method))
+ http_server.register_path(method, pattern, method_handler)
+ else:
+ raise NotImplementedError("RestServlet must register something.")
+
+ @staticmethod
+ def parse_integer(request, name, default=None, required=False):
+ if name in request.args:
+ try:
+ return int(request.args[name][0])
+ except:
+ message = "Query parameter %r must be an integer" % (name,)
+ raise SynapseError(400, message)
+ else:
+ if required:
+ message = "Missing integer query parameter %r" % (name,)
+ raise SynapseError(400, message)
+ else:
+ return default
+
+ @staticmethod
+ def parse_boolean(request, name, default=None, required=False):
+ if name in request.args:
+ try:
+ return {
+ "true": True,
+ "false": False,
+ }[request.args[name][0]]
+ except:
+ message = (
+ "Boolean query parameter %r must be one of"
+ " ['true', 'false']"
+ ) % (name,)
+ raise SynapseError(400, message)
+ else:
+ if required:
+ message = "Missing boolean query parameter %r" % (name,)
+ raise SynapseError(400, message)
+ else:
+ return default
+
+ @staticmethod
+ def parse_string(request, name, default=None, required=False,
+ allowed_values=None, param_type="string"):
+ if name in request.args:
+ value = request.args[name][0]
+ if allowed_values is not None and value not in allowed_values:
+ message = "Query parameter %r must be one of [%s]" % (
+ name, ", ".join(repr(v) for v in allowed_values)
+ )
+ raise SynapseError(message)
+ else:
+ return value
+ else:
+ if required:
+ message = "Missing %s query parameter %r" % (param_type, name)
+ raise SynapseError(400, message)
+ else:
+ return default
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