Mimesis Simple HTTP Server

Implement very simple http server like in module http.server, which returns generated data by mimesis.

The idea is to pass template in header, and ignore body and query arguments, for future integration with another server.

For example:

Template:

{
  "id": ":uuid",
  "version": "0.1.2",
  "owner.full_name": ":name :personal.surname",
  "owner.email": {"_type": "str", "_field": ":email", "_key": "lower"},
  "owner.phones": {"_type": "list", "_count": 5, "_field": [":telephone", "other1", "other2"]}
}

Output:

{
  "id": "dfcfd2f3-0799-b519-1a94-326c978b10c6",
  "version": "0.1.2",
  "owner": {
    "full_name": "Charley Parker",
    "email": "[e-mail]",
    "phones": ["776.907.0588", "717.592.4382", "168.028.7210", "other1", "other2"]
  }
}

Or we can implement something like jinja2 templating system for open customize output

Some header examples:

• Mimesis-Template - Template for response
• Mimesis-Count - Count of outputs. Default: 0
  • 0 - Response contain object.
  • 1-99 - Response contain array of objects.
• Mimesis-Locale - Response locale. Default: en

It’s may be helpful for prototyping some RESTful/GRAPHql api.

[lk-geimfari]

We should not want to reject proposals simply without justifying them. Therefore, if you will allow me, I will express my opinion. That’s looks really useful and i like it, but we should keep in mind that Mimesis is library for generating data. We have added special section related to subject to documentation: What Mimesis is, What Mimesis is Not.

Let’s create it in another repository. In this repository we will concentrate on improving the existing functional and data.

@duckyou @sobolevn If you agree with me, let’s close this issue.

[duckyou]

For mimesis http server i created one file server.py with 200+ lines of code. This is 'very'*100 simple feature without complicated design. Its like http.server but for mimesis.

Also about mimesis-clod. Here’s an idea. What if we write not just data provider service, but something like proxy. I can explain in more detail in the mimesis-lab if you want it.