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Implement a socket-based service in Python with socketserver
You don’t need an HTTP application to make a service. Depending on your requirements, you might not need anything besides Python’s standard library. Implementing a socket-based service using the Python standard library socketserver module is straightforward with minimal introduction, which I plan to provide here.
Quick definition of terms, here. When I say service, in our current context I mean a program that accepts network-protocol connections from other (potentially remote) processes and handles their requests. When I first started creating services, I remember thinking I need an endpoint that I can hit with a request to [get something done]. That’s about it.
What I’ll cover
- How does (what I’m calling) a socket-based service differ from an HTTP app?
- What are the parts of a socket-based service?
- What’s a basic implementation?
- How about an async implementation?
- What else might I consider?
How does this differ from an HTTP application?
What I’m calling a “socket-based service” is a lower-level network application than an HTTP app. In truth, HTTP applications are socket-based services because HTTP (HyperText…
