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Passing a bottle app instance to eel #199
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I am trying to get session management in eel. Since eel uses bottle, I found this link that uses beaker module to set up a session. But it requires an app instance to be passed to bottle.run() method (which eel internally calls) but as of now there is no way to pass that to eel
Describe the solution you'd like
Allowing eel.start() to accept a 'app' option by adding the following in int.py
eel init.py (Changes)
btl_app = options.pop('app', None)
def run_lambda():
return btl.run(
host=options['host'],
port=options['port'],
server=wbs.GeventWebSocketServer,
quiet=True,
app=btl_app) # Passing the app instance from optionsFull Code:
main.py
"""
Entry Point to The App
"""
import logging
import os
import sys
from tkinter import Tk, messagebox
import eel
import bottle
from bottle import request
import beaker.middleware
import time
def show_error(title, msg):
root = Tk()
root.withdraw() # hide main window
messagebox.showerror(title, msg)
root.destroy()
@eel.expose
def increment_num():
print("HERE")
session = request.environ['beaker.session']
session['num'] = session.get('num', 0) + 1
print(session['num'])
time.sleep(1)
eel.call_py()() # Calling caller (js function)
def start_app():
# Start the server
try:
BASEDIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
web_dir = BASEDIR
start_html_page = 'index.html'
eel.init(web_dir)
logging.info("App Started")
session_opts = {
'session.type': 'file',
'session.data_dir': './session/',
'session.auto': True,
}
app = beaker.middleware.SessionMiddleware(bottle.app(), session_opts)
options = {'host': 'localhost', 'port': 0, 'app': app} # Need to provide a btl app to eel
eel.start(start_html_page, options=options)
except Exception as e:
err_msg = 'Could not launch a local server'
logging.error('{}\n{}'.format(err_msg, e.args))
show_error(title='Failed to initialise server', msg=err_msg)
logging.info('Closing App')
sys.exit()
if __name__ == "__main__":
start_app()Sample index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Session Test</title>
</head>
<script type = "text/javascript" src="eel.js"></script>
<script>
eel.expose(call_py)
function call_py(){
eel.increment_num()()
}
</script>
<body>
<button onclick="call_py()">Click Here</button>
</body>
</html>