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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2014 matrix.org
+#
+# 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.
+
+from syutil.jsonutil import (
+ encode_canonical_json, encode_pretty_printed_json
+)
+from synapse.api.errors import cs_exception, CodeMessageException
+
+from twisted.internet import defer, reactor
+from twisted.web import server, resource
+from twisted.web.server import NOT_DONE_YET
+
+import collections
+import logging
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class HttpServer(object):
+ """ Interface for registering callbacks on a HTTP server
+ """
+
+ def register_path(self, method, path_pattern, callback):
+ """ Register a callback that get's fired if we receive a http request
+ with the given method for a path that matches the given regex.
+
+ If the regex contains groups these get's passed to the calback via
+ an unpacked tuple.
+
+ Args:
+ method (str): The method to listen to.
+ path_pattern (str): The regex used to match requests.
+ callback (function): The function to fire if we receive a matched
+ request. The first argument will be the request object and
+ subsequent arguments will be any matched groups from the regex.
+ This should return a tuple of (code, response).
+ """
+ pass
+
+
+# The actual HTTP server impl, using twisted http server
+class TwistedHttpServer(HttpServer, resource.Resource):
+ """ This wraps the twisted HTTP server, and triggers the correct callbacks
+ on the transport_layer.
+
+ Register callbacks via register_path()
+ """
+
+ isLeaf = True
+
+ _PathEntry = collections.namedtuple("_PathEntry", ["pattern", "callback"])
+
+ def __init__(self):
+ resource.Resource.__init__(self)
+
+ self.path_regexs = {}
+
+ def register_path(self, method, path_pattern, callback):
+ self.path_regexs.setdefault(method, []).append(
+ self._PathEntry(path_pattern, callback)
+ )
+
+ def start_listening(self, port):
+ """ Registers the http server with the twisted reactor.
+
+ Args:
+ port (int): The port to listen on.
+
+ """
+ reactor.listenTCP(port, server.Site(self))
+
+ # Gets called by twisted
+ def render(self, request):
+ """ This get's called by twisted every time someone sends us a request.
+ """
+ self._async_render(request)
+ return server.NOT_DONE_YET
+
+ @defer.inlineCallbacks
+ def _async_render(self, request):
+ """ This get's called by twisted every time someone sends us a request.
+ This checks if anyone has registered a callback for that method and
+ path.
+ """
+ try:
+ # Loop through all the registered callbacks to check if the method
+ # and path regex match
+ for path_entry in self.path_regexs.get(request.method, []):
+ m = path_entry.pattern.match(request.path)
+ if m:
+ # We found a match! Trigger callback and then return the
+ # returned response. We pass both the request and any
+ # matched groups from the regex to the callback.
+ code, response = yield path_entry.callback(
+ request,
+ *m.groups()
+ )
+
+ self._send_response(request, code, response)
+ return
+
+ # Huh. No one wanted to handle that? Fiiiiiine. Send 400.
+ self._send_response(
+ request,
+ 400,
+ {"error": "Unrecognized request"}
+ )
+ except CodeMessageException as e:
+ logger.exception(e)
+ self._send_response(
+ request,
+ e.code,
+ cs_exception(e)
+ )
+ except Exception as e:
+ logger.exception(e)
+ self._send_response(
+ request,
+ 500,
+ {"error": "Internal server error"}
+ )
+
+ def _send_response(self, request, code, response_json_object):
+
+ if not self._request_user_agent_is_curl(request):
+ json_bytes = encode_canonical_json(response_json_object)
+ else:
+ json_bytes = encode_pretty_printed_json(response_json_object)
+
+ # TODO: Only enable CORS for the requests that need it.
+ respond_with_json_bytes(request, code, json_bytes, send_cors=True)
+
+ @staticmethod
+ def _request_user_agent_is_curl(request):
+ user_agents = request.requestHeaders.getRawHeaders(
+ "User-Agent", default=[]
+ )
+ for user_agent in user_agents:
+ if "curl" in user_agent:
+ return True
+ return False
+
+
+def respond_with_json_bytes(request, code, json_bytes, send_cors=False):
+ """Sends encoded JSON in response to the given request.
+
+ Args:
+ request (twisted.web.http.Request): The http request to respond to.
+ code (int): The HTTP response code.
+ json_bytes (bytes): The json bytes to use as the response body.
+ send_cors (bool): Whether to send Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers
+ http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
+ Returns:
+ twisted.web.server.NOT_DONE_YET"""
+
+ request.setResponseCode(code)
+ request.setHeader(b"Content-Type", b"application/json")
+
+ if send_cors:
+ request.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
+ request.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods",
+ "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS")
+ request.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers",
+ "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept")
+
+ request.write(json_bytes)
+ request.finish()
+ return NOT_DONE_YET
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