Hosting static files

[Harish Gowda]

Along with the API's. I also want to host some static files which will provide more information about the API's exposed. How to accomplish that?
Since it is a subclass of Flask. I tried:

@app.route('/')
def index():
  return render_template('index.html')

It returned a 404.

[Bryan Cattle]

I don't know specifically why that wouldn't work, but a better approach is probably to put any non-REST stuff in a separate Flask app. You can then use wekzeug DispatcherMiddleware to direct requests to both, based on the url or a subdomain. 

application = DispatcherMiddleware(eve_app, {
    '/static':     static_app
})

See http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/patterns/appdispatch/#combining-applications

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Bryan Cattle <bryan....@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know specifically why that wouldn't work, but a better approach is probably to put any non-REST stuff in a separate Flask app. You can then use wekzeug DispatcherMiddleware to direct requests to both, based on the url or a subdomain. 

application = DispatcherMiddleware(eve_app, {
    '/static':     static_app
})

See http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/patterns/appdispatch/#combining-applications

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[Harish Gowda]

Thanks. Actually, I'm writing a javascript front end app using Ember.js which will feed on the API. I want to keep them together for time being,  Because I already have flask and js code working together.  I want to take up the separation piece later.

[Bryan Cattle]

Well they are still together - the DispatcherMiddleware combines two Flask (really WSGI) app classes into one. You then run the result (application above) using a single server program (Apache, Gunicorn) on a single port. 

[Harish Gowda]

So it is not possible configure static html within eve?

[Nicola Iarocci]

Not within Eve, not at the moment at least. Besides Bryan's example, another one would be the very cool Eve-Docs application: https://github.com/charlesflynn/eve-docs.

Nicola

[safar...@gmail.com]

Hi, I am new to this too and am in the transition from bottle.py/self written stuff/Sencha ExtJs to Eve/Sencha ExtJs .
I am serving my static files withouth problems through Eve/Flask. I have not bserved any side effects. At least not til now.

#!/bin/env python2.7
from eve import Eve
from flask import redirect,send_from_directory,render_template
import os

PWD = os.environ.get("PWD")

# set folder for static data
static_folder=os.path.join(PWD,"static")

# set path for settings file
settings=os.path.join(PWD,"settings.py")

app = Eve(settings=settings,static_folder=static_folder)

# get servername and port from settings file
serverdata = app.config["SERVER_NAME"].split(":")
host = serverdata[0]
port = serverdata[1]

@app.route('/favicon.ico')
def favicon():
  return send_from_directory(os.path.join(static_folder,"images"), "openterm.ico")

@app.route('/index.html')
@app.route('/')
def index_html():
  return send_from_directory(static_folder, "index.html")

def main():
    app.run(host=host,port=int(port),debug=True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

 hth