[Twisted-Python] twisted.web with dynamic + static content

Oct. 30, 2018

      I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious here but I just can't get my
head around it.

Here's the setup: twisted.web server that generates dynamic content. Child
that serves up static content, e.g. css and favoicon.  However, the static
content isn't making it. Instead, any hit to localhost/static actually
yields up a copy of / again.

Here's the server code

import sys

from twisted.internet import reactor, endpoints
from twisted.web import server
from twisted.web.resource import Resource
from twisted.web.static import File

sys.path.append('lib')

content = """
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/test.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
    <span class='twistedTest'>This</span> is a test
</body>
</html>
"""

class tServer(Resource):
    isLeaf = True

    def render_GET(self, request):
        return bytes(content, "utf-8")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    root = tServer()
    root.putChild(b"static", File("static"))

    site = server.Site(root)
    endpoint = endpoints.TCP4ServerEndpoint(reactor, 8080)
    endpoint.listen(site)

    reactor.run()
    print("Shutting down!")

It's run with the command 'python tserver.py'.  The expectation is that
what is inside the custom <span> will be red.

In the same dir as the script is a subdir 'static' with the css file inside
it.

If I replace 'root' with     root = Resource() then / doesn't serve up
anything, but /static is a directory listing of the static directory.

The dynamic server is basically a copy of several tutorials cooked down to
something that I could use to demonstrate the problem.

What am I missing here? /headscratch

Regards,

Jeff

[Twisted-Python] twisted.web with dynamic + static content

Jeff Grimmett