Falcon allows for easy and customizable internet media type handling. By default Falcon only enables a single JSON handler. However, additional handlers can be configured through the falcon.RequestOptions
and falcon.ResponseOptions
objects specified on your falcon.API
.
Note
To avoid unnecessary overhead, Falcon will only process request media the first time the media property is referenced. Once it has been referenced, it’ll use the cached result for subsequent interactions.
Zero configuration is needed if you’re creating a JSON API. Just access or set the media
attribute as appropriate and let Falcon do the heavy lifting for you.
import falcon class EchoResource(object): def on_post(self, req, resp): message = req.media.get('message') resp.media = {'message': message} resp.status = falcon.HTTP_200
Warning
Once media
is called on a request, it’ll consume the request’s stream.
Falcon currently only provides a JSON Schema media validator; however, JSON Schema is very versatile and can be used to validate any deserialized media type that JSON also supports (i.e. dicts, lists, etc).
falcon.media.validators.jsonschema.validate(schema)
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Decorator that validates req.media
using JSON Schema
Parameters: | schema (dict) – A dictionary that follows the JSON Schema specification. See json-schema.org for more information on defining a compatible dictionary. |
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from falcon.media.validators import jsonschema # -- snip -- @jsonschema.validate(my_post_schema) def on_post(self, req, resp): # -- snip --
Note
This validator requires the jsonschema
library available via PyPI. The library also requires Python 2.7+.
If JSON Schema does not meet your needs, a custom validator may be implemented in a similar manner to the one above.
Falcon currently only supports partial negotiation out of the box. By default, when the media
attribute is used it attempts to de/serialize based on the Content-Type
header value. The missing link that Falcon doesn’t provide is the connection between the falcon.Request
Accept
header provided by a user and the falcon.Response
Content-Type
header.
If you do need full negotiation, it is very easy to bridge the gap using middleware. Here is an example of how this can be done:
class NegotiationMiddleware(object): def process_request(self, req, resp): resp.content_type = req.accept
When creating your API object you can either add or completely replace all of the handlers. For example, lets say you want to write an API that sends and receives MessagePack. We can easily do this by telling our Falcon API that we want a default media-type of application/msgpack
and then create a new Handlers
object specifying the desired media type and a handler that can process that data.
import falcon from falcon import media handlers = media.Handlers({ 'application/msgpack': media.MessagePackHandler(), }) api = falcon.API(media_type='application/msgpack') api.req_options.media_handlers = handlers api.resp_options.media_handlers = handlers
Alternatively, if you would like to add an additional handler such as MessagePack, this can be easily done in the following manner:
import falcon from falcon import media extra_handlers = { 'application/msgpack': media.MessagePackHandler(), } api = falcon.API() api.req_options.media_handlers.update(extra_handlers) api.resp_options.media_handlers.update(extra_handlers)
class falcon.media.MessagePackHandler
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Handler built using the msgpack
module from python-msgpack
Note
This handler uses the bin
type option which expects bytes instead of strings.
Note
This handler requires the python-msgpack
package to be installed.
If Falcon doesn’t have an internet media type handler that supports your use case, you can easily implement your own using the abstract base class provided by Falcon:
class falcon.media.BaseHandler
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Abstract Base Class for an internet media type handler
serialize(obj)
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Serialize the media object on a falcon.Response
Parameters: | obj (object) – A serializable object. |
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Returns: | The resulting serialized bytes from the input object. |
Return type: | bytes |
deserialize(raw)
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Deserialize the falcon.Request
body.
Parameters: | raw (bytes) – Input bytes to deserialize |
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Returns: | A deserialized object. |
Return type: | object |
class falcon.media.Handlers(initial=None)
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A dictionary like object that manages internet media type handlers.
The falcon
module provides a number of constants for common media types, including the following:
falcon.MEDIA_JSON falcon.MEDIA_MSGPACK falcon.MEDIA_YAML falcon.MEDIA_XML falcon.MEDIA_HTML falcon.MEDIA_JS falcon.MEDIA_TEXT falcon.MEDIA_JPEG falcon.MEDIA_PNG falcon.MEDIA_GIF
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