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What's New in WebOb 1.7
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Compatibility
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- WebOb is no longer supported on Python 2.6 and PyPy3. PyPy3 support will be
re-introduced as soon as it supports a Python version higher than 3.2 and pip
fully supports the platform again.
If you would like Python 2.6 support, please pin to WebOb 1.6, which still
has Python 2.6 support.
Backwards Incompatibility
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- :attr:`Response.content_type <webob.response.Response.content_type>` removes
all existing Content-Type parameters, and if the new Content-Type is "texty"
it adds a new charset (unless already provided) using the
``default_charset``, to emulate the old behaviour you may use the following:
.. code-block:: python
res = Response(content_type='text/html', charset='UTF-8')
assert res.content_type == 'text/html'
assert res.charset == 'UTF-8'
params = res.content_type_params
# Change the Content-Type
res.content_type = 'application/unknown'
assert res.content_type == 'application/unknown'
assert res.charset == None
# This will add the ``charset=UTF-8`` parameter to the Content-Type
res.content_type_params = params
assert res.headers['Content-Type'] == 'application/unknown; charset=UTF-8'
See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/301 for more information.
- :class:`~webob.response.Response` no longer treats ``application/json`` as a
special case that may also be treated as text. This means the following may
no longer be used:
.. code-block:: python
res = Response(json.dumps({}), content_type='application/json')
Since ``application/json`` does not have a ``charset``, this will now raise
an error.
Replacements are:
.. code-block:: python
res = Response(json_body={})
This will create a new :class:`~webob.response.Response` that automatically
sets up the the Content-Type and converts the dictionary to a JSON object
internally.
If you want WebOb to the encoding but do the conversion to JSON yourself, the
following would also work:
.. code-block:: python
res = Response(text=json.dumps({}), content_type='application/json')
This uses :attr:`~webob.response.Response.default_body_encoding` to encode
the text.
- :func:`Response.set_cookie <webob.response.Response.set_cookie>` no longer
accepts a key argument. This was deprecated in WebOb 1.5 and as mentioned in
the deprecation, is being removed in 1.7
Use:
.. code-block:: python
res = Response()
res.set_cookie(name='cookie_name', value='val')
# or
res.set_cookie('cookie_name', 'val')
Instead of:
.. code-block:: python
res = Response()
res.set_cookie(key='cookie_name', value='val')
- :func:`Response.__init__ <webob.response.Response>` will no longer
set the default Content-Type, nor Content-Length on Responses that don't have
a body. This allows WebOb to return proper responses for things like
`Response(status='204 No Content')`.
- :attr:`Response.text <webob.response.Response.text>` will no longer raise if
the Content-Type does not have a charset, it will fall back to using the new
default_body_encoding. To get the old behaviour back please sub-class
Response and set default_body_encoding to None. See
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/287
An example of a Response class that has the old behaviour:
.. code-block:: python
class MyResponse(Response):
default_body_encoding = None
res = MyResponse(content_type='application/json')
# This will raise as application/json doesn't have a charset
res.text = 'sometext'
- WebOb no longer supports Chunked Encoding, this means that if you are using
WebOb and need Chunked Encoding you will be required to have a proxy that
unchunks the request for you. Please read
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/279 for more background.
This changes the behaviour of ``request.is_body_readable``, it will no longer
assume that a request has a body just because it is a particular HTTP verb.
This change also allows any HTTP verb to be able to contain a body, which
allows for example a HTTP body on DELETE or even GET.
Feature
~~~~~~~
- :class:`~webob.response.Response` has a new ``default_body_encoding`` which
may be used to allow getting/setting :attr:`Response.text
<webob.response.Response.text>` when a Content-Type has no charset. See
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/287
.. code-block:: python
res = Response()
res.default_body_encoding = 'latin1'
res.text = 'Will be encoded as latin1 and .body will be set'
res = Response()
res.default_body_encoding = 'latin1'
res.body = b'A valid latin-1 string'
res.text == 'A valid latin-1 string'
- :class:`~webob.request.Request` with any HTTP method is now allowed to have a
body. This allows DELETE to have a request body for passing extra
information. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/283 and
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/274
- Add :func:`~webob.response.ResponseBodyFile.tell` to
:class:`~webob.response.ResponseBodyFile` so that it may be used for example
for zipfile support. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/117
- Allow the return from :func:`wsgify.middleware <webob.dec.wsgify.middleware>` to
be used as a decorator. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/228
.. code-block:: python
@wsgify.middleware
def restrict_ip(req, app, ips):
if req.remote_addr not in ips:
raise webob.exc.HTTPForbidden('Bad IP: %s' % req.remote_addr)
return app
@restrict_ip(ips=['127.0.0.1'])
@wsgify
def app(req):
return 'hi'
Bugfix
~~~~~~
- Fixup :class:`cgi.FieldStorage` on Python 3.x to work-around issue reported
in Python bug report 27777 and 24764. This is currently applied for Python
versions less than 3.7. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/294
- :func:`Response.set_cookie <webob.response.Response.set_cookie>` now accepts
:class:`~datetime.datetime` objects for the ``expires`` kwarg and will
correctly convert them to UTC with no ``tzinfo`` for use in calculating the
``max_age``. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/254 and
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/292
- Fixes :attr:`request.PATH_SAFE <webob.request.PATH_SAFE>` to contain all of
the path safe characters according to RFC3986. See
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/291
- WebOb's exceptions will lazily read underlying variables when inserted into
templates to avoid expensive computations/crashes when inserting into the
template. This had a bad performance regression on Py27 because of the way
the lazified class was created and returned. See
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/284
- :func:`wsgify.__call__ <webob.dec.wsgify.__call__>` raised a ``TypeError``
with an unhelpful message, it will now return the `repr` for the wrapped
function: https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/119
- :attr:`Response.json <webob.response.Response.json>`'s json.dumps/loads are
now always UTF-8. It no longer tries to use the charset.
- The :class:`~webob.response.Response` will by default no longer set the
Content-Type to the default if a headerlist is provided. This fixes issues
whereby `Request.get_response()` would return a Response that didn't match
the actual response. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/261 and
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/205
- Cleans up the remainder of the issues with the updated WebOb exceptions that
were taught to return JSON in version 1.6. See
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/237 and
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/236
- :func:`Response.from_file <webob.response.Response.from_file>` now parses the
status line correctly when the status line contains an HTTP with version, as
well as a status text that contains multiple white spaces (e.g HTTP/1.1 404
Not Found). See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/250
- :class:`~webob.response.Response` now has a new property named
:attr:`~webob.response.Response.has_body` that may be used to interrogate the
Response to find out if the :attr:`~webob.response.Response.body` is or isn't
set.
This is used in the exception handling code so that if you use a WebOb HTTP
Exception and pass a generator to ``app_iter`` WebOb won't attempt to read
the whole thing and instead allows it to be returned to the WSGI server. See
https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/259
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