CherryPy 3 + Jython - Third attempt

OK, so it's been a while since I had time and energy to give this another shot. But Leo Soto's work on Django and Jython gave me some inspiration the other day. So I pulled down the latest svn version of Jython (since 2.2 is released now, trunk is the former 2.3 branch). Since the last time I tried this Alan Kennedy has supplied some excellent improvements to Jython's socket module, so I was hoping most of my problems would be solved.

I started off with a clean Jython and clean CherryPy (3.0.2). I realised right away that the metaclass problem mentioned in the previous post still existed, so I made the same fix as before. I also noticed that Jython is still missing a signal module, so I dummied one up for my purposes. Afters some trial and error I added three things to the Jython socket module: the _fileobject class (just copied it from CPython) and the constants AF_UNSPEC and AI_PASSIVE.

Yay! It finally worked. To my joy the simple Hello World example ran without any problems :-)

import cherrypy

class HelloWorld:
    def index(self):
        return "Hello world!"
    index.exposed = True

cherrypy.quickstart(HelloWorld())

The next step is of course to try out some more advanced CherryPy moves... more to come.