Factories and protocols

This documentation page contains information about RequestHandlerProtocol and RequestHandlerFactory, which provide mechanisms for transferring data through WebSockets, and their processing.

RequestHandler protocol

RequestHandlerProtocol instance, created for every client connection. The instance of this class (which based on the Authobahn.ws implementation) processing client request asynchronously. This means that the protocol never waits for an event, but responds to events when they arrived from the network.

Base algorithm for the default implementation, described by the next scheme:

  1. Get a message (which can be JSON or base64 string) from the client.
  2. Decode message and wrap him into Request instance.
  3. Process request through invoke routers process_request method.
  4. Get response data from Response instance and encode message.
  5. Send result data (in the same form, which had taken at the 1st step) to the client.

Also what necessary to know, when you’re working with this protocol:

  1. Protocols can retrieve the message, why a connection was terminated.
  2. You can create multiple connections to a server.

RequestHandler factory

RequestHandlerFactory is a class, which instantiates client connections.

Note

Persistent configuration information is not saved in the instantiated protocol. For such cases kept data in a factory classes, databases, etc.

This factory also provide a access for the client handlers (RequestHandlerProtocol instances) to the general router, which used for processing users requests.

If necessary provide any access to databases, cache storages or whatever you want, strongly recommend to use properties. For example it can be something like that:

from aiorest_ws.request import RequestHandlerFactory

class CustomHandlerFactory(RequestHandlerFactory):
"""Factory, which also provide access to the cookies."""
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(CustomHandlerFactory, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self._cookies = kwargs.get('cookies_dump', {})

@property
def cookies(self):
    return self._cookies

For more information about factories with WebSockets support, overriding behaviour of aiorest-ws RequestHandlerFactory factory (which rely onto Authobahn.ws implementation) look into Autobahn.ws documentation.