Unix Socket Server
A single-threaded server for serving in-memory files via Unix sockets. No Requirements. just clone this repo and copy unix_socket_server module to the root of your project or install package using pip:
pip install unix-socket-serverProblem
Imagine that we have a in-memory file in our Python application and we want to share this file with other apps or tools on the same host without writing it to disk.
Solution
A lightweight solution to this problem is to use Unix socket communication for file sharing.
Examples:
Use a context manager that automatically manages the server lifecycle:
from unix_socket_server import UnixSocketServerContext
with UnixSocketServerContext(b'hello world', '/tmp/file.sock') as server:
"""
do stuff
"""Or you can create and start the server manually.
server = UnixSocketServer(b'Hello World')
server.listen('/tmp/stream.socket')UnixSocketServer writes file to response stream by default . but if your client needs http protocol you can use http handler like example below:
from unix_socket_server import UnixSocketServerContext
with open('./file-exmaple.txt', 'rb') as f:
"""
UnixSocketServer also accepts readable io objects
"""
with UnixSocketServerContext(f, '/tmp/file.sock', handler='http') as server:
"""
do stuff
dummy example:
transport = httpx.HTTPTransport(uds=server.uri)
client = httpx.Client(transport=transport)
response = client.get('http://any_path/')
assert response.status_code == 200
"""
