From 1644efffa25dcc70c9e01f709fbd203351e2f6ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Merickel Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 15:49:19 -0600 Subject: link to documentation on hupper fixes #2806 --- docs/narr/project.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/narr/project.rst') diff --git a/docs/narr/project.rst b/docs/narr/project.rst index 71bd176f6..6c42881f4 100644 --- a/docs/narr/project.rst +++ b/docs/narr/project.rst @@ -1045,3 +1045,23 @@ Another good production alternative is :term:`Green Unicorn` (aka mod_wsgi, although it depends, in its default configuration, on having a buffering HTTP proxy in front of it. It does not, as of this writing, work on Windows. + +Automatically Reloading Your Code +--------------------------------- + +During development, it can be really useful to automatically have the +webserver restart when you make changes. ``pserve`` has a ``--reload`` switch +to enable this. It uses the +`hupper ` package +to enable this behavior. When your code crashes, ``hupper`` will wait for +another change or the ``SIGHUP`` signal before restarting again. + +inotify support +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +By default, ``hupper`` will poll the filesystem for changes to all python +code. This can be pretty inefficient in larger projects. To be nicer to your +hard drive, you should install the +`watchdog ` package in development. +``hupper`` will automatically use ``watchdog`` to more efficiently poll the +filesystem. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3f130937bcce073e9933e28c332e59c559025e07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Merickel Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:14:26 -0600 Subject: support a [pserve] config section with a list of files to watch fixes #2732 --- docs/narr/project.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/narr/project.rst') diff --git a/docs/narr/project.rst b/docs/narr/project.rst index 6c42881f4..b4ad6948e 100644 --- a/docs/narr/project.rst +++ b/docs/narr/project.rst @@ -1065,3 +1065,23 @@ hard drive, you should install the `watchdog ` package in development. ``hupper`` will automatically use ``watchdog`` to more efficiently poll the filesystem. + +Monitoring Custom Files +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +By default, ``pserve --reload`` will monitor all imported Python code +(everything in ``sys.modules``) as well as the config file passed to +``pserve`` (e.g. ``development.ini``). You can instruct ``pserve`` to watch +other files for changes as well by defining a ``[pserve]`` section in your +configuration file. For example, let's say your application loads the +``favicon.ico`` file at startup and stores it in memory to efficiently +serve it many times. When you change it you want ``pserve`` to restart: + +.. code-block:: ini + + [pserve] + watch_files = + myapp/static/favicon.ico + +Paths are relative to the configuration file and are passed to ``hupper`` +to watch. Currently it does not support globs but this may change. -- cgit v1.2.3 From ff0da73a8922b5e82c676715078c7b9e60a6a1da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Merickel Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:42:55 -0600 Subject: document globbing --- docs/narr/project.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/narr/project.rst') diff --git a/docs/narr/project.rst b/docs/narr/project.rst index b4ad6948e..77c637571 100644 --- a/docs/narr/project.rst +++ b/docs/narr/project.rst @@ -1083,5 +1083,7 @@ serve it many times. When you change it you want ``pserve`` to restart: watch_files = myapp/static/favicon.ico -Paths are relative to the configuration file and are passed to ``hupper`` -to watch. Currently it does not support globs but this may change. +Paths may be absolute or relative to the configuration file. They may also +be an :term:`asset specification`. These paths are passed to ``hupper`` which +has some basic support for globbing. Acceptable glob patterns depend on the +version of Python being used. -- cgit v1.2.3