I have a server application that creates a number of web resources (derived from resource.Resource). Some of the resources only handle GET requests, while others only handle POSTs.

Currently the resources only override the render() method. I want to change them to override render_GET() or render_POST() as appropriate.

I notice that if a resource receives a request it doesn't handle, then an UnsupportedMethod exception is raised. This returns HTML to the client containing a message that uses UnsupportedMethod.allowedMethods. This defaults to an empty tuple.

Because my resources support different request methods, I have to set allowedMethods in each resource's render() method e.g.

def render(self, request): server.UnsupportedMethod.allowedMethods = ('POST',) resource.Resource.render(self, request)

So I still need to override the render() method.

Is there a neater way to do this?

I'm using Twisted 1.2.0

regards Richard Townsend