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Application Dispatching |
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======================= |
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Application dispatching is the process of combining multiple Flask |
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applications on the WSGI level. You can not only combine Flask |
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applications into something larger but any WSGI application. This would |
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even allow you to run a Django and a Flask application in the same |
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interpreter side by side if you want. The usefulness of this depends on |
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how the applications work internally. |
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The fundamental difference from the :ref:`module approach |
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<larger-applications>` is that in this case you are running the same or |
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different Flask applications that are entirely isolated from each other. |
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They run different configurations and are dispatched on the WSGI level. |
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Combining Applications |
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If you have entirely separated applications and you want them to work next |
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to each other in the same Python interpreter process you can take |
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advantage of the :class:`werkzeug.wsgi.DispatcherMiddleware`. The idea |
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here is that each Flask application is a valid WSGI application and they |
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are combined by the dispatcher middleware into a larger one that |
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dispatched based on prefix. |
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For example you could have your main application run on `/` and your |
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backend interface on `/admin`:: |
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from werkzeug.wsgi import DispatcherMiddleware |
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from frontend_app import application as frontend |
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from backend_app import application as backend |
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application = DispatcherMiddleware(frontend, { |
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'/backend': backend |
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}) |
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Dispatch by Subdomain |
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Sometimes you might want to use multiple instances of the same application |
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with different configurations. Assuming the application is created inside |
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a function and you can call that function to instanciate it, that is |
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really easy to implement. In order to develop your application to support |
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creating new instances in functions have a look at the |
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:ref:`app-factories` pattern. |
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A very common example would be creating applications per subdomain. For |
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instance you configure your webserver to dispatch all requests for all |
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subdomains to your application and you then use the subdomain information |
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to create user-specific instances. Once you have your server set up to |
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listen on all subdomains you can use a very simple WSGI application to do |
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the dynamic application creation. |
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The perfect level for abstraction in that regard is the WSGI layer. You |
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write your own WSGI application that looks at the request that comes and |
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and delegates it to your Flask application. If that application does not |
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exist yet, it is dynamically created and remembered:: |
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from threading import Lock |
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class SubdomainDispatcher(object): |
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def __init__(self, domain, create_app): |
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self.domain = domain |
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self.create_app = create_app |
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self.lock = Lock() |
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self.instances = {} |
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def get_application(self, host): |
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host = host.split(':')[0] |
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assert host.endswith(self.domain), 'Configuration error' |
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subdomain = host[:-len(self.domain)].rstrip('.') |
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with self.lock: |
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app = self.instances.get(subdomain) |
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if app is None: |
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app = self.create_app(subdomain) |
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self.instances[subdomain] = app |
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return app |
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def __call__(self, environ, start_response): |
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app = self.get_application(environ['HTTP_HOST']) |
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return app(environ, start_response) |
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This dispatcher can then be used like this:: |
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from myapplication import create_app, get_user_for_subdomain |
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from werkzeug.exceptions import NotFound |
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def make_app(subdomain): |
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user = get_user_for_subdomain(subdomain) |
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if user is None: |
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# if there is no user for that subdomain we still have |
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# to return a WSGI application that handles that request. |
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# We can then just return the NotFound() exception as |
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# application which will render a default 404 page. |
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# You might also redirect the user to the main page then |
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return NotFound() |
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# otherwise create the application for the specific user |
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return create_app(user) |
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application = SubdomainDispatcher('example.com', make_app) |
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Dispatch by Path |
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Dispatching by a path on the URL is very similar. Instead of looking at |
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the `Host` header to figure out the subdomain one simply looks at the |
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request path up to the first slash:: |
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from threading import Lock |
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from werkzeug.wsgi import pop_path_info, peek_path_info |
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class PathDispatcher(object): |
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def __init__(self, default_app, create_app): |
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self.default_app = default_app |
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self.create_app = create_app |
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self.lock = Lock() |
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self.instances = {} |
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def get_application(self, prefix): |
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with self.lock: |
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app = self.instances.get(prefix) |
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if app is None: |
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app = self.create_app(prefix) |
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if app is not None: |
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self.instances[prefix] = app |
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return app |
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def __call__(self, environ, start_response): |
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app = self.get_application(peek_path_info(environ)) |
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if app is not None: |
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pop_path_info(environ) |
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else: |
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app = self.default_app |
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return app(environ, start_response) |
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The big difference between this and the subdomain one is that this one |
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falls back to another application if the creator function returns `None`:: |
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from myapplication import create_app, default_app, get_user_for_prefix |
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def make_app(prefix): |
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user = get_user_for_prefix(prefix) |
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if user is not None: |
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return create_app(user) |
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application = PathDispatcher('example.com', default_app, make_app) |
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