""" Tutorial - Multiple objects This tutorial shows you how to create a site structure through multiple possibly nested request handler objects. """ import os.path import cherrypy class HomePage: @cherrypy.expose def index(self): return '''

Hi, this is the home page! Check out the other fun stuff on this site:

''' class JokePage: @cherrypy.expose def index(self): return '''

"In Python, how do you create a string of random characters?" -- "Read a Perl file!"

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''' class LinksPage: def __init__(self): # Request handler objects can create their own nested request # handler objects. Simply create them inside their __init__ # methods! self.extra = ExtraLinksPage() @cherrypy.expose def index(self): # Note the way we link to the extra links page (and back). # As you can see, this object doesn't really care about its # absolute position in the site tree, since we use relative # links exclusively. return '''

Here are some useful links:

You can check out some extra useful links here.

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''' class ExtraLinksPage: @cherrypy.expose def index(self): # Note the relative link back to the Links page! return '''

Here are some extra useful links:

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''' # Of course we can also mount request handler objects right here! root = HomePage() root.joke = JokePage() root.links = LinksPage() # Remember, we don't need to mount ExtraLinksPage here, because # LinksPage does that itself on initialization. In fact, there is # no reason why you shouldn't let your root object take care of # creating all contained request handler objects. tutconf = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'tutorial.conf') if __name__ == '__main__': # CherryPy always starts with app.root when trying to map request URIs # to objects, so we need to mount a request handler root. A request # to '/' will be mapped to HelloWorld().index(). cherrypy.quickstart(root, config=tutconf)