After several hours of working on porting this program over, it appears to finally be in a working state. However, I was wondering if anyone knew of a better way or more complete way of porting Java servlets over into Python. The beginning of the Python script contains a lot of support code to make it easier to port the program line-by-line directly into Python. Does anyone know of a better way to go about this?
Java
// --------------------------------------------------------
// File: Hello.java
// Description: A simple "Hello World" servlet
// --------------------------------------------------------
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import sun.servlet.http.HttpServer;
public class Hello extends HttpServlet {
int count;
public void service(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
// setup response
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
// send response
out.println("<html><body>");
out.println("<h5>Stephen Paul Chappell (SPC)</h5>");
out.println("<h5>:) (ZTD) Zero The Dragon :(</h5>");
String name = request.getParameter("NAME");
if (name != null && !name.equals("")) {
out.println("<h2>Hello, " + name + "</h2>");
} else {
out.println();
if (name != null && name.equals("")) {
out.println(" <h2>You didn't enter your name. Please enter your name. </h2>");
} else {
out.println(" <h2>What's your name? </h2>");
}
out.println(" <hr>");
out.println(" <form action=\"http://127.0.0.1:8080/servlet/Hello\">");
out.println();
out.println(" Enter your name: <input type=\"text\" name=\"NAME\" value=\"Fred\"><br>");
out.println(" <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Click for greeting\">");
out.println();
out.println(" </form>");
}
String color = request.getParameter("FAVCOLOR");
if (color != null) {
out.println("<h2>Why, " + color + " is my favorite color too!</h2>");
}
count++;
out.println("This page has been hit " + count + " time(s).");
out.print("</body></html>");
}
// start web server
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
HttpServer.main(args);
}
}
Python
import urllib.parse
import http.server
import cgitb
import sys
import io
################################################################################
class HttpServlet(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
__debug = False
@staticmethod
def debug(value):
HttpServlet.__debug = value
def do_GET(self):
if self.path == '/favicon.ico':
self.send_error(404)
return
request = HttpServletRequest(self.path)
response = HttpServletResponse()
try:
self.service(request, response)
except Exception:
if HttpServlet.__debug:
self.send_response(500)
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
self.end_headers()
klass, value, trace = sys.exc_info()
html = cgitb.html((klass, value, trace.tb_next))
self.wfile.write(html.encode())
else:
self.send_error(500)
else:
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type', response._type)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(response._value)
def service(self, request, response):
raise NotImplementedError()
################################################################################
class HttpServletRequest:
def __init__(self, path):
query = urllib.parse.urlparse(path).query
self.__dict = urllib.parse.parse_qs(query, True)
def getParameter(self, name):
return self.__dict.get(name, [None])[0]
################################################################################
class HttpServletResponse:
def __init__(self):
self.__content_type = 'text/plain'
self.__print_writer = PrintWriter()
def setContentType(self, content_type):
self.__content_type = content_type
def getWriter(self):
return self.__print_writer
@property
def _type(self):
return self.__content_type
@property
def _value(self):
return self.__print_writer.getvalue().encode()
################################################################################
class PrintWriter(io.StringIO):
print = io.StringIO.write
def println(self, string):
self.write(string + '\r\n')
################################################################################
class HttpServer(http.server.HTTPServer):
@staticmethod
def main(RequestHandlerClass, port=80):
server = HttpServer(('', port), RequestHandlerClass)
socket = server.socket.getsockname()
print('Serving HTTP on', socket[0], 'port', socket[1], '...')
try:
server.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print('Keyboard interrupt received: EXITING')
server.server_close()
################################################################################
################################################################################
## ---------------------------------------------------------
## File: Hello.py
## Description: A simple "Hello World" servlet
## ---------------------------------------------------------
class Hello(HttpServlet):
count = 0
def service(self, request, response):
# Setup for a response.
response.setContentType('text/html')
out = response.getWriter()
# Send an appropriate response.
out.println('''\
<html>
<head>
<title>Java to Python servlet</title>
</head>
<body>
<h5>Stephen Paul Chappell (SPC)</h5>
<h5>:) (ZTD) Zero The Dragon :(</h5>''')
name = request.getParameter('NAME')
if name:
out.println('''\
<h2>Hello, {}!</h2>'''.format(name))
else:
if name == '':
out.println('''\
<h2>You did not enter your name.</h2>
<h3>Please enter your name.</h3>''')
else:
out.println('''\
<h2>What is your name?</h2>''')
out.println('''\
<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>About Yourself</legend>
<label for='NAME'>Enter your name:</label>
<input id='NAME' name='NAME' type='text' value='John Doe' />
<br />
<input type='submit' value='Click me!' />
</fieldset>
</form>''')
color = request.getParameter('FAVCOLOR')
if color:
out.println('''\
<h2>Why, {} is my favorite color too!</h2>'''.format(color))
Hello.count += 1
out.println('''\
This page has been hit {} times.'''.format(Hello.count))
out.print('''\
</body>
</html>''')
# Start the web server.
def main():
HttpServlet.debug(True)
HttpServer.main(Hello)
################################################################################
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
In case anyone is wondering what the purpose of this project is, the original Java program was given as an introductory exercise in freshman-level computer-science course. Since then, it has been about six years since I have worked with Java and am going through the old programs, porting them over to Python for the challenge and learning experience. Porting the servlets are presenting extra difficulties.
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