sanic/docs/sanic/streaming.rst
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Update docs with changes done in 20.3 (#1822)
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* Add missing Sanic(name) arguments in docs. Merge async/non-async class view examples.

Co-authored-by: L. Kärkkäinen <tronic@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-03-31 10:57:09 -07:00

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Streaming
=========
Request Streaming
-----------------
Sanic allows you to get request data by stream, as below. When the request ends, `await request.stream.read()` returns `None`. Only post, put and patch decorator have stream argument.
.. code-block:: python
from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.views import CompositionView
from sanic.views import HTTPMethodView
from sanic.views import stream as stream_decorator
from sanic.blueprints import Blueprint
from sanic.response import stream, text
bp = Blueprint('blueprint_request_stream')
app = Sanic(__name__)
class SimpleView(HTTPMethodView):
@stream_decorator
async def post(self, request):
result = ''
while True:
body = await request.stream.read()
if body is None:
break
result += body.decode('utf-8')
return text(result)
@app.post('/stream', stream=True)
async def handler(request):
async def streaming(response):
while True:
body = await request.stream.read()
if body is None:
break
body = body.decode('utf-8').replace('1', 'A')
await response.write(body)
return stream(streaming)
@bp.put('/bp_stream', stream=True)
async def bp_put_handler(request):
result = ''
while True:
body = await request.stream.read()
if body is None:
break
result += body.decode('utf-8').replace('1', 'A')
return text(result)
# You can also use `bp.add_route()` with stream argument
async def bp_post_handler(request):
result = ''
while True:
body = await request.stream.read()
if body is None:
break
result += body.decode('utf-8').replace('1', 'A')
return text(result)
bp.add_route(bp_post_handler, '/bp_stream', methods=['POST'], stream=True)
async def post_handler(request):
result = ''
while True:
body = await request.stream.read()
if body is None:
break
result += body.decode('utf-8')
return text(result)
app.blueprint(bp)
app.add_route(SimpleView.as_view(), '/method_view')
view = CompositionView()
view.add(['POST'], post_handler, stream=True)
app.add_route(view, '/composition_view')
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(host='127.0.0.1', port=8000)
Response Streaming
------------------
Sanic allows you to stream content to the client with the `stream` method. This method accepts a coroutine callback which is passed a `StreamingHTTPResponse` object that is written to. A simple example is like follows:
.. code-block:: python
from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.response import stream
app = Sanic(__name__)
@app.route("/")
async def test(request):
async def sample_streaming_fn(response):
await response.write('foo,')
await response.write('bar')
return stream(sample_streaming_fn, content_type='text/csv')
This is useful in situations where you want to stream content to the client that originates in an external service, like a database. For example, you can stream database records to the client with the asynchronous cursor that `asyncpg` provides:
.. code-block:: python
@app.route("/")
async def index(request):
async def stream_from_db(response):
conn = await asyncpg.connect(database='test')
async with conn.transaction():
async for record in conn.cursor('SELECT generate_series(0, 10)'):
await response.write(record[0])
return stream(stream_from_db)
If a client supports HTTP/1.1, Sanic will use `chunked transfer encoding <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding>`_; you can explicitly enable or disable it using `chunked` option of the `stream` function.
File Streaming
--------------
Sanic provides `sanic.response.file_stream` function that is useful when you want to send a large file. It returns a `StreamingHTTPResponse` object and will use chunked transfer encoding by default; for this reason Sanic doesn't add `Content-Length` HTTP header in the response. If you want to use this header, you can disable chunked transfer encoding and add it manually:
.. code-block:: python
from aiofiles import os as async_os
from sanic.response import file_stream
@app.route("/")
async def index(request):
file_path = "/srv/www/whatever.png"
file_stat = await async_os.stat(file_path)
headers = {"Content-Length": str(file_stat.st_size)}
return await file_stream(
file_path,
headers=headers,
chunked=False,
)