1 """Generic socket server classes. 2 3 This module tries to capture the various aspects of defining a server: 4 5 For socket-based servers: 6 7 - address family: 8 - AF_INET{,6}: IP (Internet Protocol) sockets (default) 9 - AF_UNIX: Unix domain sockets 10 - others, e.g. AF_DECNET are conceivable (see <socket.h> 11 - socket type: 12 - SOCK_STREAM (reliable stream, e.g. TCP) 13 - SOCK_DGRAM (datagrams, e.g. UDP) 14 15 For request-based servers (including socket-based): 16 17 - client address verification before further looking at the request 18 (This is actually a hook for any processing that needs to look 19 at the request before anything else, e.g. logging) 20 - how to handle multiple requests: 21 - synchronous (one request is handled at a time) 22 - forking (each request is handled by a new process) 23 - threading (each request is handled by a new thread) 24 25 The classes in this module favor the server type that is simplest to 26 write: a synchronous TCP/IP server. This is bad class design, but 27 save some typing. (There's also the issue that a deep class hierarchy 28 slows down method lookups.) 29 30 There are five classes in an inheritance diagram, four of which represent 31 synchronous servers of four types: 32 33 +------------+ 34 | BaseServer | 35 +------------+ 36 | 37 v 38 +-----------+ +------------------+ 39 | TCPServer |------->| UnixStreamServer | 40 +-----------+ +------------------+ 41 | 42 v 43 +-----------+ +--------------------+ 44 | UDPServer |------->| UnixDatagramServer | 45 +-----------+ +--------------------+ 46 47 Note that UnixDatagramServer derives from UDPServer, not from 48 UnixStreamServer -- the only difference between an IP and a Unix 49 stream server is the address family, which is simply repeated in both 50 unix server classes. 51 52 Forking and threading versions of each type of server can be created 53 using the ForkingMixIn and ThreadingMixIn mix-in classes. For 54 instance, a threading UDP server class is created as follows: 55 56 class ThreadingUDPServer(ThreadingMixIn, UDPServer): pass 57 58 The Mix-in class must come first, since it overrides a method defined 59 in UDPServer! Setting the various member variables also changes 60 the behavior of the underlying server mechanism. 61 62 To implement a service, you must derive a class from 63 BaseRequestHandler and redefine its handle() method. You can then run 64 various versions of the service by combining one of the server classes 65 with your request handler class. 66 67 The request handler class must be different for datagram or stream 68 services. This can be hidden by using the request handler 69 subclasses StreamRequestHandler or DatagramRequestHandler. 70 71 Of course, you still have to use your head! 72 73 For instance, it makes no sense to use a forking server if the service 74 contains state in memory that can be modified by requests (since the 75 modifications in the child process would never reach the initial state 76 kept in the parent process and passed to each child). In this case, 77 you can use a threading server, but you will probably have to use 78 locks to avoid two requests that come in nearly simultaneous to apply 79 conflicting changes to the server state. 80 81 On the other hand, if you are building e.g. an HTTP server, where all 82 data is stored externally (e.g. in the file system), a synchronous 83 class will essentially render the service "deaf" while one request is 84 being handled -- which may be for a very long time if a client is slow 85 to read all the data it has requested. Here a threading or forking 86 server is appropriate. 87 88 In some cases, it may be appropriate to process part of a request 89 synchronously, but to finish processing in a forked child depending on 90 the request data. This can be implemented by using a synchronous 91 server and doing an explicit fork in the request handler class 92 handle() method. 93 94 Another approach to handling multiple simultaneous requests in an 95 environment that supports neither threads nor fork (or where these are 96 too expensive or inappropriate for the service) is to maintain an 97 explicit table of partially finished requests and to use select() to 98 decide which request to work on next (or whether to handle a new 99 incoming request). This is particularly important for stream services 100 where each client can potentially be connected for a long time (if 101 threads or subprocesses cannot be used). 102 103 Future work: 104 - Standard classes for Sun RPC (which uses either UDP or TCP) 105 - Standard mix-in classes to implement various authentication 106 and encryption schemes 107 - Standard framework for select-based multiplexing 108 109 XXX Open problems: 110 - What to do with out-of-band data? 111 112 BaseServer: 113 - split generic "request" functionality out into BaseServer class. 114 Copyright (C) 2000 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl (at] samba.org> 115 116 example: read entries from a SQL database (requires overriding 117 get_request() to return a table entry from the database). 118 entry is processed by a RequestHandlerClass. 119 120 """ 121 122 # Author of the BaseServer patch: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 123 124 # XXX Warning! 125 # There is a test suite for this module, but it cannot be run by the 126 # standard regression test. 127 # To run it manually, run Lib/test/test_socketserver.py. 128 129 __version__ = "0.4" 130 131 132 import socket 133 import select 134 import sys 135 import os 136 import errno 137 try: 138 import threading 139 except ImportError: 140 import dummy_threading as threading 141 142 __all__ = ["TCPServer","UDPServer","ForkingUDPServer","ForkingTCPServer", 143 "ThreadingUDPServer","ThreadingTCPServer","BaseRequestHandler", 144 "StreamRequestHandler","DatagramRequestHandler", 145 "ThreadingMixIn", "ForkingMixIn"] 146 if hasattr(socket, "AF_UNIX"): 147 __all__.extend(["UnixStreamServer","UnixDatagramServer", 148 "ThreadingUnixStreamServer", 149 "ThreadingUnixDatagramServer"]) 150 151 def _eintr_retry(func, *args): 152 """restart a system call interrupted by EINTR""" 153 while True: 154 try: 155 return func(*args) 156 except (OSError, select.error) as e: 157 if e.args[0] != errno.EINTR: 158 raise 159 160 class BaseServer: 161 162 """Base class for server classes. 163 164 Methods for the caller: 165 166 - __init__(server_address, RequestHandlerClass) 167 - serve_forever(poll_interval=0.5) 168 - shutdown() 169 - handle_request() # if you do not use serve_forever() 170 - fileno() -> int # for select() 171 172 Methods that may be overridden: 173 174 - server_bind() 175 - server_activate() 176 - get_request() -> request, client_address 177 - handle_timeout() 178 - verify_request(request, client_address) 179 - server_close() 180 - process_request(request, client_address) 181 - shutdown_request(request) 182 - close_request(request) 183 - handle_error() 184 185 Methods for derived classes: 186 187 - finish_request(request, client_address) 188 189 Class variables that may be overridden by derived classes or 190 instances: 191 192 - timeout 193 - address_family 194 - socket_type 195 - allow_reuse_address 196 197 Instance variables: 198 199 - RequestHandlerClass 200 - socket 201 202 """ 203 204 timeout = None 205 206 def __init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass): 207 """Constructor. May be extended, do not override.""" 208 self.server_address = server_address 209 self.RequestHandlerClass = RequestHandlerClass 210 self.__is_shut_down = threading.Event() 211 self.__shutdown_request = False 212 213 def server_activate(self): 214 """Called by constructor to activate the server. 215 216 May be overridden. 217 218 """ 219 pass 220 221 def serve_forever(self, poll_interval=0.5): 222 """Handle one request at a time until shutdown. 223 224 Polls for shutdown every poll_interval seconds. Ignores 225 self.timeout. If you need to do periodic tasks, do them in 226 another thread. 227 """ 228 self.__is_shut_down.clear() 229 try: 230 while not self.__shutdown_request: 231 # XXX: Consider using another file descriptor or 232 # connecting to the socket to wake this up instead of 233 # polling. Polling reduces our responsiveness to a 234 # shutdown request and wastes cpu at all other times. 235 r, w, e = _eintr_retry(select.select, [self], [], [], 236 poll_interval) 237 if self in r: 238 self._handle_request_noblock() 239 finally: 240 self.__shutdown_request = False 241 self.__is_shut_down.set() 242 243 def shutdown(self): 244 """Stops the serve_forever loop. 245 246 Blocks until the loop has finished. This must be called while 247 serve_forever() is running in another thread, or it will 248 deadlock. 249 """ 250 self.__shutdown_request = True 251 self.__is_shut_down.wait() 252 253 # The distinction between handling, getting, processing and 254 # finishing a request is fairly arbitrary. Remember: 255 # 256 # - handle_request() is the top-level call. It calls 257 # select, get_request(), verify_request() and process_request() 258 # - get_request() is different for stream or datagram sockets 259 # - process_request() is the place that may fork a new process 260 # or create a new thread to finish the request 261 # - finish_request() instantiates the request handler class; 262 # this constructor will handle the request all by itself 263 264 def handle_request(self): 265 """Handle one request, possibly blocking. 266 267 Respects self.timeout. 268 """ 269 # Support people who used socket.settimeout() to escape 270 # handle_request before self.timeout was available. 271 timeout = self.socket.gettimeout() 272 if timeout is None: 273 timeout = self.timeout 274 elif self.timeout is not None: 275 timeout = min(timeout, self.timeout) 276 fd_sets = _eintr_retry(select.select, [self], [], [], timeout) 277 if not fd_sets[0]: 278 self.handle_timeout() 279 return 280 self._handle_request_noblock() 281 282 def _handle_request_noblock(self): 283 """Handle one request, without blocking. 284 285 I assume that select.select has returned that the socket is 286 readable before this function was called, so there should be 287 no risk of blocking in get_request(). 288 """ 289 try: 290 request, client_address = self.get_request() 291 except socket.error: 292 return 293 if self.verify_request(request, client_address): 294 try: 295 self.process_request(request, client_address) 296 except: 297 self.handle_error(request, client_address) 298 self.shutdown_request(request) 299 300 def handle_timeout(self): 301 """Called if no new request arrives within self.timeout. 302 303 Overridden by ForkingMixIn. 304 """ 305 pass 306 307 def verify_request(self, request, client_address): 308 """Verify the request. May be overridden. 309 310 Return True if we should proceed with this request. 311 312 """ 313 return True 314 315 def process_request(self, request, client_address): 316 """Call finish_request. 317 318 Overridden by ForkingMixIn and ThreadingMixIn. 319 320 """ 321 self.finish_request(request, client_address) 322 self.shutdown_request(request) 323 324 def server_close(self): 325 """Called to clean-up the server. 326 327 May be overridden. 328 329 """ 330 pass 331 332 def finish_request(self, request, client_address): 333 """Finish one request by instantiating RequestHandlerClass.""" 334 self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self) 335 336 def shutdown_request(self, request): 337 """Called to shutdown and close an individual request.""" 338 self.close_request(request) 339 340 def close_request(self, request): 341 """Called to clean up an individual request.""" 342 pass 343 344 def handle_error(self, request, client_address): 345 """Handle an error gracefully. May be overridden. 346 347 The default is to print a traceback and continue. 348 349 """ 350 print '-'*40 351 print 'Exception happened during processing of request from', 352 print client_address 353 import traceback 354 traceback.print_exc() # XXX But this goes to stderr! 355 print '-'*40 356 357 358 class TCPServer(BaseServer): 359 360 """Base class for various socket-based server classes. 361 362 Defaults to synchronous IP stream (i.e., TCP). 363 364 Methods for the caller: 365 366 - __init__(server_address, RequestHandlerClass, bind_and_activate=True) 367 - serve_forever(poll_interval=0.5) 368 - shutdown() 369 - handle_request() # if you don't use serve_forever() 370 - fileno() -> int # for select() 371 372 Methods that may be overridden: 373 374 - server_bind() 375 - server_activate() 376 - get_request() -> request, client_address 377 - handle_timeout() 378 - verify_request(request, client_address) 379 - process_request(request, client_address) 380 - shutdown_request(request) 381 - close_request(request) 382 - handle_error() 383 384 Methods for derived classes: 385 386 - finish_request(request, client_address) 387 388 Class variables that may be overridden by derived classes or 389 instances: 390 391 - timeout 392 - address_family 393 - socket_type 394 - request_queue_size (only for stream sockets) 395 - allow_reuse_address 396 397 Instance variables: 398 399 - server_address 400 - RequestHandlerClass 401 - socket 402 403 """ 404 405 address_family = socket.AF_INET 406 407 socket_type = socket.SOCK_STREAM 408 409 request_queue_size = 5 410 411 allow_reuse_address = False 412 413 def __init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass, bind_and_activate=True): 414 """Constructor. May be extended, do not override.""" 415 BaseServer.__init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass) 416 self.socket = socket.socket(self.address_family, 417 self.socket_type) 418 if bind_and_activate: 419 try: 420 self.server_bind() 421 self.server_activate() 422 except: 423 self.server_close() 424 raise 425 426 def server_bind(self): 427 """Called by constructor to bind the socket. 428 429 May be overridden. 430 431 """ 432 if self.allow_reuse_address: 433 self.socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) 434 self.socket.bind(self.server_address) 435 self.server_address = self.socket.getsockname() 436 437 def server_activate(self): 438 """Called by constructor to activate the server. 439 440 May be overridden. 441 442 """ 443 self.socket.listen(self.request_queue_size) 444 445 def server_close(self): 446 """Called to clean-up the server. 447 448 May be overridden. 449 450 """ 451 self.socket.close() 452 453 def fileno(self): 454 """Return socket file number. 455 456 Interface required by select(). 457 458 """ 459 return self.socket.fileno() 460 461 def get_request(self): 462 """Get the request and client address from the socket. 463 464 May be overridden. 465 466 """ 467 return self.socket.accept() 468 469 def shutdown_request(self, request): 470 """Called to shutdown and close an individual request.""" 471 try: 472 #explicitly shutdown. socket.close() merely releases 473 #the socket and waits for GC to perform the actual close. 474 request.shutdown(socket.SHUT_WR) 475 except socket.error: 476 pass #some platforms may raise ENOTCONN here 477 self.close_request(request) 478 479 def close_request(self, request): 480 """Called to clean up an individual request.""" 481 request.close() 482 483 484 class UDPServer(TCPServer): 485 486 """UDP server class.""" 487 488 allow_reuse_address = False 489 490 socket_type = socket.SOCK_DGRAM 491 492 max_packet_size = 8192 493 494 def get_request(self): 495 data, client_addr = self.socket.recvfrom(self.max_packet_size) 496 return (data, self.socket), client_addr 497 498 def server_activate(self): 499 # No need to call listen() for UDP. 500 pass 501 502 def shutdown_request(self, request): 503 # No need to shutdown anything. 504 self.close_request(request) 505 506 def close_request(self, request): 507 # No need to close anything. 508 pass 509 510 class ForkingMixIn: 511 512 """Mix-in class to handle each request in a new process.""" 513 514 timeout = 300 515 active_children = None 516 max_children = 40 517 518 def collect_children(self): 519 """Internal routine to wait for children that have exited.""" 520 if self.active_children is None: 521 return 522 523 # If we're above the max number of children, wait and reap them until 524 # we go back below threshold. Note that we use waitpid(-1) below to be 525 # able to collect children in size(<defunct children>) syscalls instead 526 # of size(<children>): the downside is that this might reap children 527 # which we didn't spawn, which is why we only resort to this when we're 528 # above max_children. 529 while len(self.active_children) >= self.max_children: 530 try: 531 pid, _ = os.waitpid(-1, 0) 532 self.active_children.discard(pid) 533 except OSError as e: 534 if e.errno == errno.ECHILD: 535 # we don't have any children, we're done 536 self.active_children.clear() 537 elif e.errno != errno.EINTR: 538 break 539 540 # Now reap all defunct children. 541 for pid in self.active_children.copy(): 542 try: 543 pid, _ = os.waitpid(pid, os.WNOHANG) 544 # if the child hasn't exited yet, pid will be 0 and ignored by 545 # discard() below 546 self.active_children.discard(pid) 547 except OSError as e: 548 if e.errno == errno.ECHILD: 549 # someone else reaped it 550 self.active_children.discard(pid) 551 552 def handle_timeout(self): 553 """Wait for zombies after self.timeout seconds of inactivity. 554 555 May be extended, do not override. 556 """ 557 self.collect_children() 558 559 def process_request(self, request, client_address): 560 """Fork a new subprocess to process the request.""" 561 self.collect_children() 562 pid = os.fork() 563 if pid: 564 # Parent process 565 if self.active_children is None: 566 self.active_children = set() 567 self.active_children.add(pid) 568 self.close_request(request) #close handle in parent process 569 return 570 else: 571 # Child process. 572 # This must never return, hence os._exit()! 573 try: 574 self.finish_request(request, client_address) 575 self.shutdown_request(request) 576 os._exit(0) 577 except: 578 try: 579 self.handle_error(request, client_address) 580 self.shutdown_request(request) 581 finally: 582 os._exit(1) 583 584 585 class ThreadingMixIn: 586 """Mix-in class to handle each request in a new thread.""" 587 588 # Decides how threads will act upon termination of the 589 # main process 590 daemon_threads = False 591 592 def process_request_thread(self, request, client_address): 593 """Same as in BaseServer but as a thread. 594 595 In addition, exception handling is done here. 596 597 """ 598 try: 599 self.finish_request(request, client_address) 600 self.shutdown_request(request) 601 except: 602 self.handle_error(request, client_address) 603 self.shutdown_request(request) 604 605 def process_request(self, request, client_address): 606 """Start a new thread to process the request.""" 607 t = threading.Thread(target = self.process_request_thread, 608 args = (request, client_address)) 609 t.daemon = self.daemon_threads 610 t.start() 611 612 613 class ForkingUDPServer(ForkingMixIn, UDPServer): pass 614 class ForkingTCPServer(ForkingMixIn, TCPServer): pass 615 616 class ThreadingUDPServer(ThreadingMixIn, UDPServer): pass 617 class ThreadingTCPServer(ThreadingMixIn, TCPServer): pass 618 619 if hasattr(socket, 'AF_UNIX'): 620 621 class UnixStreamServer(TCPServer): 622 address_family = socket.AF_UNIX 623 624 class UnixDatagramServer(UDPServer): 625 address_family = socket.AF_UNIX 626 627 class ThreadingUnixStreamServer(ThreadingMixIn, UnixStreamServer): pass 628 629 class ThreadingUnixDatagramServer(ThreadingMixIn, UnixDatagramServer): pass 630 631 class BaseRequestHandler: 632 633 """Base class for request handler classes. 634 635 This class is instantiated for each request to be handled. The 636 constructor sets the instance variables request, client_address 637 and server, and then calls the handle() method. To implement a 638 specific service, all you need to do is to derive a class which 639 defines a handle() method. 640 641 The handle() method can find the request as self.request, the 642 client address as self.client_address, and the server (in case it 643 needs access to per-server information) as self.server. Since a 644 separate instance is created for each request, the handle() method 645 can define arbitrary other instance variariables. 646 647 """ 648 649 def __init__(self, request, client_address, server): 650 self.request = request 651 self.client_address = client_address 652 self.server = server 653 self.setup() 654 try: 655 self.handle() 656 finally: 657 self.finish() 658 659 def setup(self): 660 pass 661 662 def handle(self): 663 pass 664 665 def finish(self): 666 pass 667 668 669 # The following two classes make it possible to use the same service 670 # class for stream or datagram servers. 671 # Each class sets up these instance variables: 672 # - rfile: a file object from which receives the request is read 673 # - wfile: a file object to which the reply is written 674 # When the handle() method returns, wfile is flushed properly 675 676 677 class StreamRequestHandler(BaseRequestHandler): 678 679 """Define self.rfile and self.wfile for stream sockets.""" 680 681 # Default buffer sizes for rfile, wfile. 682 # We default rfile to buffered because otherwise it could be 683 # really slow for large data (a getc() call per byte); we make 684 # wfile unbuffered because (a) often after a write() we want to 685 # read and we need to flush the line; (b) big writes to unbuffered 686 # files are typically optimized by stdio even when big reads 687 # aren't. 688 rbufsize = -1 689 wbufsize = 0 690 691 # A timeout to apply to the request socket, if not None. 692 timeout = None 693 694 # Disable nagle algorithm for this socket, if True. 695 # Use only when wbufsize != 0, to avoid small packets. 696 disable_nagle_algorithm = False 697 698 def setup(self): 699 self.connection = self.request 700 if self.timeout is not None: 701 self.connection.settimeout(self.timeout) 702 if self.disable_nagle_algorithm: 703 self.connection.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, 704 socket.TCP_NODELAY, True) 705 self.rfile = self.connection.makefile('rb', self.rbufsize) 706 self.wfile = self.connection.makefile('wb', self.wbufsize) 707 708 def finish(self): 709 if not self.wfile.closed: 710 try: 711 self.wfile.flush() 712 except socket.error: 713 # An final socket error may have occurred here, such as 714 # the local error ECONNABORTED. 715 pass 716 self.wfile.close() 717 self.rfile.close() 718 719 720 class DatagramRequestHandler(BaseRequestHandler): 721 722 # XXX Regrettably, I cannot get this working on Linux; 723 # s.recvfrom() doesn't return a meaningful client address. 724 725 """Define self.rfile and self.wfile for datagram sockets.""" 726 727 def setup(self): 728 try: 729 from cStringIO import StringIO 730 except ImportError: 731 from StringIO import StringIO 732 self.packet, self.socket = self.request 733 self.rfile = StringIO(self.packet) 734 self.wfile = StringIO() 735 736 def finish(self): 737 self.socket.sendto(self.wfile.getvalue(), self.client_address) 738