extended application.StaticContent

It gained the capability to server content to unknown methods. For a
backwards-compatible API this has to be enabled by an optional boolean.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/wsgitools/applications.py b/wsgitools/applications.py
index 286ab9b..63ed63c 100644
--- a/wsgitools/applications.py
+++ b/wsgitools/applications.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class StaticContent:
     receives with method GET or HEAD (content stripped). If not present, a
     content-length header is computed.
     """
-    def __init__(self, status, headers, content):
+    def __init__(self, status, headers, content, anymethod=False):
         """
         @type status: str
         @param status: is the HTTP status returned to the browser (ex: "200 OK")
@@ -24,12 +24,16 @@ class StaticContent:
         @type content: basestring
         @param content: contains the data to be delivered to the client. It is
                 either a string or some kind of iterable yielding strings.
+        @type anymethod: boolean
+        @param anymethod: determines whether any request method should be
+                answered with this response instead of a 501
         """
         assert isinstance(status, str)
         assert isinstance(headers, list)
         assert isinstance(content, basestring) or hasattr(content, "__iter__")
         self.status = status
         self.headers = headers
+        self.anymethod = anymethod
         length = -1
         if isinstance(content, basestring):
             self.content = [content]
@@ -44,7 +48,8 @@ class StaticContent:
     def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
         """wsgi interface"""
         assert isinstance(environ, dict)
-        if environ["REQUEST_METHOD"].upper() not in ["GET", "HEAD"]:
+        if environ["REQUEST_METHOD"].upper() not in ["GET", "HEAD"] and \
+                not self.anymethod:
             resp = "Request method not implemented"
             start_response("501 Not Implemented",
                            [("Content-length", str(len(resp)))])