The Evolution of Finger: a web frontend

  1. Introduction

Introduction

This is the sixth part of the Twisted tutorial Twisted from Scratch, or The Evolution of Finger.

In this part, we demonstrate adding a web frontend using simple twisted.web.resource.Resource objects: UserStatusTree, which will produce a listing of all users at the base URL (/) of our site; UserStatus, which gives the status of each user at the locaton /username; and UserStatusXR, which exposes an XMLRPC interface to getUser and getUsers functions at the URL /RPC2.

In this example we construct HTML segments manually. If the web interface was less trivial, we would want to use more sophisticated web templating and design our system so that HTML rendering and logic were clearly separated.

# Do everything properly, and componentize
from twisted.application import internet, service
from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor, defer
from twisted.words.protocols import irc
from twisted.protocols import basic
from twisted.python import components
from twisted.web import resource, server, static, xmlrpc, microdom
from zope.interface import Interface, implements
import cgi

class IFingerService(Interface):

    def getUser(user):
        """Return a deferred returning a string"""

    def getUsers():
        """Return a deferred returning a list of strings"""

class IFingerSetterService(Interface):

    def setUser(user, status):
        """Set the user's status to something"""

def catchError(err):
    return "Internal error in server"

class FingerProtocol(basic.LineReceiver):

    def lineReceived(self, user):
        d = self.factory.getUser(user)
        d.addErrback(catchError)
        def writeValue(value):
            self.transport.write(value+'\r\n')
            self.transport.loseConnection()
        d.addCallback(writeValue)


class IFingerFactory(Interface):

    def getUser(user):
        """Return a deferred returning a string"""

    def buildProtocol(addr):
        """Return a protocol returning a string"""


class FingerFactoryFromService(protocol.ServerFactory):

    implements(IFingerFactory)

    protocol = FingerProtocol

    def __init__(self, service):
        self.service = service

    def getUser(self, user):
        return self.service.getUser(user)

components.registerAdapter(FingerFactoryFromService,
                           IFingerService,
                           IFingerFactory)

class FingerSetterProtocol(basic.LineReceiver):

    def connectionMade(self):
        self.lines = []

    def lineReceived(self, line):
        self.lines.append(line)

    def connectionLost(self, reason):
        if len(self.lines) == 2:
            self.factory.setUser(*self.lines)


class IFingerSetterFactory(Interface):

    def setUser(user, status):
        """Return a deferred returning a string"""

    def buildProtocol(addr):
        """Return a protocol returning a string"""


class FingerSetterFactoryFromService(protocol.ServerFactory):

    implements(IFingerSetterFactory)

    protocol = FingerSetterProtocol

    def __init__(self, service):
        self.service = service

    def setUser(self, user, status):
        self.service.setUser(user, status)


components.registerAdapter(FingerSetterFactoryFromService,
                           IFingerSetterService,
                           IFingerSetterFactory)

class IRCReplyBot(irc.IRCClient):

    def connectionMade(self):
        self.nickname = self.factory.nickname
        irc.IRCClient.connectionMade(self)

    def privmsg(self, user, channel, msg):
        user = user.split('!')[0]
        if self.nickname.lower() == channel.lower():
            d = self.factory.getUser(msg)
            d.addErrback(catchError)
            d.addCallback(lambda m: "Status of %s: %s" % (msg, m))
            d.addCallback(lambda m: self.msg(user, m))


class IIRCClientFactory(Interface):

    """
    @ivar nickname
    """

    def getUser(user):
        """Return a deferred returning a string"""

    def buildProtocol(addr):
        """Return a protocol"""


class IRCClientFactoryFromService(protocol.ClientFactory):

    implements(IIRCClientFactory)

    protocol = IRCReplyBot
    nickname = None

    def __init__(self, service):
        self.service = service

    def getUser(self, user):
        return self.service.getUser(user)

components.registerAdapter(IRCClientFactoryFromService,
                           IFingerService,
                           IIRCClientFactory)

class UserStatusTree(resource.Resource):

    def __init__(self, service):
        resource.Resource.__init__(self)
        self.service=service

        # add a specific child for the path "RPC2"
        self.putChild("RPC2", UserStatusXR(self.service))

        # need to do this for resources at the root of the site
        self.putChild("", self)

    def _cb_render_GET(self, users, request):
        userOutput = ''.join(["<li><a href=\"%s\">%s</a></li>" % (user, user)
                for user in users])
        request.write("""
            <html><head><title>Users</title></head><body>
            <h1>Users</h1>
            <ul>
            %s
            </ul></body></html>""" % userOutput)
        request.finish()

    def render_GET(self, request):
        d = self.service.getUsers()
        d.addCallback(self._cb_render_GET, request)

        # signal that the rendering is not complete
        return server.NOT_DONE_YET

    def getChild(self, path, request):
        return UserStatus(user=path, service=self.service)

components.registerAdapter(UserStatusTree, IFingerService, resource.IResource)

class UserStatus(resource.Resource):

    def __init__(self, user, service):
        resource.Resource.__init__(self)
        self.user = user
        self.service = service

    def _cb_render_GET(self, status, request):
        request.write("""<html><head><title>%s</title></head>
        <body><h1>%s</h1>
        <p>%s</p>
        </body></html>""" % (self.user, self.user, status))
        request.finish()

    def render_GET(self, request):
        d = self.service.getUser(self.user)
        d.addCallback(self._cb_render_GET, request)

        # signal that the rendering is not complete
        return server.NOT_DONE_YET

class UserStatusXR(xmlrpc.XMLRPC):

    def __init__(self, service):
        xmlrpc.XMLRPC.__init__(self)
        self.service = service

    def xmlrpc_getUser(self, user):
        return self.service.getUser(user)

    def xmlrpc_getUsers(self):
        return self.service.getUsers()


class FingerService(service.Service):

    implements(IFingerService)

    def __init__(self, filename):
        self.filename = filename
        self._read()

    def _read(self):
        self.users = {}
        for line in file(self.filename):
            user, status = line.split(':', 1)
            user = user.strip()
            status = status.strip()
            self.users[user] = status
        self.call = reactor.callLater(30, self._read)

    def getUser(self, user):
        return defer.succeed(self.users.get(user, "No such user"))

    def getUsers(self):
        return defer.succeed(self.users.keys())


application = service.Application('finger', uid=1, gid=1)
f = FingerService('/etc/users')
serviceCollection = service.IServiceCollection(application)
internet.TCPServer(79, IFingerFactory(f)
                   ).setServiceParent(serviceCollection)
internet.TCPServer(8000, server.Site(resource.IResource(f))
                   ).setServiceParent(serviceCollection)
i = IIRCClientFactory(f)
i.nickname = 'fingerbot'
internet.TCPClient('irc.freenode.org', 6667, i
                   ).setServiceParent(serviceCollection)

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