Using web.py, serve up a simple rest interface.

I created this for another project and decided to table it for now. I have a requirement to utilize an old version of ArcGIS Server 10.0, current version at time of writing is 10.8.0 beta. The behemoth of a server application I'm trying to debug has several rest endpoints and some of them take quite a while to return. I wanted a simple and easy to update service I could create multiple endpoints for my UI testing.

Currently, I'm utilizing a toolbox in ArcGIS Server that mimics the existing calls. In the future, I'd like to pair this with Selenium and get some automated testing going.

The only requirement here is web.py.

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

I've tested this project on

• Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
  • python 3.6.2 64-bit
• Arch Linux (5.3.12)
  • python 3.7.4 64-bit
  • python 2.7.17 64-bit

python rest-service.py

Should output something like...

$ http://0.0.0.0:8080/

This signifies the server is running on localhost port 8080. The port number is configurable in rest-service.py, PORT var.

I've created the root URL to output the list of running services and the class they call. If you wanted to utilize / for something else, disable/remote INDEX object in json/index.json

• create a response file in json/ named something helpful (ex. MyNewResponse.json)
• put JSON into your response file
• open json/index.json
• add a new item giving it a unique name (ex. MYNEWRESPONSE)
  • pattern is the URL without hostname:port (ex. "/mynewresponse/GetResponse")
  • classname is the class in core/services.py the pattern points to (ex. MyNewResponse)
• open core/services.py
• create a new class with matching classname you just defined (ex. MyNewResponse)
  • __init__ pulls in the JSON response file, make sure the filename is correct
  • when a GET action is sent to the endpoint, the code in GET is executed, we simply return the contents of the JSON response file

If you were looking for ArcGIS Server help I feel bad for ya son.