How to serve a single static file (instead of an entire directory) using aiohttp?
Static file serving seems to be baked into the routing system with UrlDispatcher.add_static(), but this only serves entire directories.
(I know that I eventually should use something like nginx to serve static files in a production environment.)
You can use aiohttp.web.FileResponse, initialised with the path to the file, e.g.
from aiohttp import web
async def index(request):
return web.FileResponse('./index.html')
I wrote App, that handles uri on client (angular router).
To serve webapp i used slightly different factory:
def index_factory(path,filename):
async def static_view(request):
# prefix not needed
route = web.StaticRoute(None, '/', path)
request.match_info['filename'] = filename
return await route.handle(request)
return static_view
# json-api
app.router.add_route({'POST','GET'}, '/api/{collection}', api_handler)
# other static
app.router.add_static('/static/', path='../static/', name='static')
# index, loaded for all application uls.
app.router.add_get('/{path:.*}', index_factory("../static/ht_docs/","index.html"))
Currently there is no built-in way of doing this; however, there are plans in motion to add this feature.
# server
local_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "static")
app.router.add_static('/static', local_dir)
# HTML
<a href="/static/main.css">
