Class-based views in aiohttp

Question

What is the right approach to use class-based handlers instead of functions in aiohttp library? I'm used to writing handlers as classes in Django so I am wondering how to do it correctly in aiohttp?

Answer 1

You can use it like this:

from aiohttp import web
from datetime import datetime


class TokenView(web.View):

    async def get(self):
        token = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
        room = self.request.match_info.get("room", None)
        return web.json_response({"room": room, "token": token, "result": "OK"})

    async def post(self):
        room = self.request.match_info.get("room", None)
        token = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
        return web.json_response({"room": room, "token": token, "result": "OK"})


if __name__ == "__main__":

    app = web.Application()
    app.router.add_view("/token/{room}", TokenView)
    print(app.router.named_resources())
    web.run_app(app)

Answer 2

I assume you want to use class-based handlers for sake of applying inheritance for reusing code.

Technically aiohttp web-handler is any coroutine which accepts request parameter and returns response instance.

For example

class BaseView:
    def __init__(self, ...):
        ...

    async def __call__(self, request):
        return web.Response()

app.router.add_route('GET', '/', BaseView(...))

can be used as base class for making web-handlers hierarchy.

Or even

class Handler:
    def __init__(self, db):
        self._db = db

    async def get_from_db(self, data):
        ...

    async def handle_a(self, request):
        data = yield from self.get_from_db(
            self.extract_from_request_a(request))
        return web.Response(self.format_data(data))

    async def handle_b(self, request):
        data = yield from self.get_from_db(
            self.extract_from_request_b(request))
        return web.Response(self.format_data(data))


handler = Handler(db)
app.router.add_route('GET', '/a', hadndler.handle_a)
app.router.add_route('GET', '/b', hadndler.handle_b)

Answer 3

Quick example of Class-based views in aiohttp

from aiohttp import web

class Users(web.View):

    async def get(self):
        output = [
            {   
                'id': 1,
                'username': 'chuck_norris'
            },
        ]
        return web.json_response(output, status=200)

    async def post(self):
        data = await self.request.json()
        output = {
            'result': data
        }
        return web.json_response(output, status=201)

    async def delete(self):
        return web.json_response(status=204)


class Teams(web.View):

    async def get(self):
        output = [
            {   
                'id': 1,
                'team': 'team1'
            },
        ]
        return web.json_response(output, status=200)

    async def post(self):
        data = await self.request.json()
        output = {
            'result': data
        }
        return web.json_response(output, status=201)

    async def delete(self):
        return web.json_response(status=204)


app = web.Application()

app.router.add_view("/users", Users)
app.router.add_view("/teams", Teams)

web.run_app(app, port=8000)