Reading JSON from SimpleHTTPServer Post data

Thanks matthewatabet for the klein idea. I figured a way to implement it using BaseHTTPHandler. The code below.

from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServerimport SocketServerimport simplejsonimport randomclass S(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):    def _set_headers(self):        self.send_response(200)        self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')        self.end_headers()    def do_GET(self):        self._set_headers()        f = open("index.html", "r")        self.wfile.write(f.read())    def do_HEAD(self):        self._set_headers()    def do_POST(self):        self._set_headers()        print "in post method"        self.data_string = self.rfile.read(int(self.headers['Content-Length']))        self.send_response(200)        self.end_headers()        data = simplejson.loads(self.data_string)        with open("test123456.json", "w") as outfile:            simplejson.dump(data, outfile)        print "{}".format(data)        f = open("for_presen.py")        self.wfile.write(f.read())        returndef run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=S, port=80):    server_address = ('', port)    httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)    print 'Starting httpd...'    httpd.serve_forever()if __name__ == "__main__":    from sys import argvif len(argv) == 2:    run(port=int(argv[1]))else:    run()

And the corresponding html page

<form action="/profile/index/sendmessage" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"><div class="upload_form">    <dt id="message-label"><label class="optional" for="message">Enter Message</label></dt>    <dd id="message-element">    <textarea cols="80" rows="50" id="message" name="message">[{"resources": {"dut": "any_ts", "endpoint1": "multistream_endpoint", "endpoint2": "multistream_endpoint"}},{"action": "create_conference", "serverName": "dut", "conferenceName": "GURU_SLAVE_TS"},{"action": "dial_out_ep", "serverName": "dut", "confName": "GURU_SLAVE_TS", "epName": "endpoint1"}]        </textarea></dd>    <dt id="id-label"> </dt>    <dd id="id-element">    <input type="hidden" id="id" value="145198" name="id"></dd>    <dt id="send_message-label"> </dt>    <dd id="send_message-element">    <input type="submit" class="sendamessage" value="Send" id="send_message" name="send_message"></dd></div></form><script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">$("input.sendamessage").click(function(event) {event.preventDefault();var message = $('textarea#message').val();var id      = $('input#id').val();url = "http://128.107.138.51:8080"var posting = $.post(url, message)posting.done(function( data ) {  alert(message);});});</script>

SimpleHTTPRequestHandler does not support POST. It's very simple indeed. Check out Klein whose server is a bit more full-featured.

There's an example of a json PUT (pretty close to POST) here:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/klein/0.2.3

import jsonfrom klein import Kleinclass ItemStore(object):    app = Klein()    def __init__(self):        self._items = {}    @app.route('/')    def items(self, request):        request.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')        return json.dumps(self._items)    @app.route('/<string:name>', methods=['PUT'])    def save_item(self, request, name):        request.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')        body = json.loads(request.content.read())        self._items[name] = body        return json.dumps({'success': True})    @app.route('/<string:name>', methods=['GET'])    def get_item(self, request, name):        request.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')        return json.dumps(self._items.get(name))if __name__ == '__main__':    store = ItemStore()    store.app.run('localhost', 8080)