From: Géry Ogam <gery.ogam@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:03:46 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bpo-35640: Allow passing PathLike arguments to SimpleHTTPRequestHandler (GH-11398)
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=781266ebb60e7ac781a3e07030d92275721ff3cf;p=python

bpo-35640: Allow passing PathLike arguments to SimpleHTTPRequestHandler (GH-11398)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
index a367e373dc..5173decb2b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.server.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
@@ -344,6 +344,9 @@ provides three different variants:
 
       If not specified, the directory to serve is the current working directory.
 
+      .. versionchanged:: 3.9
+         Accepts a :term:`path-like object`.
+
    The :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` class defines the following methods:
 
    .. method:: do_HEAD()
diff --git a/Lib/http/server.py b/Lib/http/server.py
index b247675ec4..005dd824f9 100644
--- a/Lib/http/server.py
+++ b/Lib/http/server.py
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
     def __init__(self, *args, directory=None, **kwargs):
         if directory is None:
             directory = os.getcwd()
-        self.directory = directory
+        self.directory = os.fspath(directory)
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
     def do_GET(self):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index 87d4924a34..1c980a2fa6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import sys
 import re
 import base64
 import ntpath
+import pathlib
 import shutil
 import email.message
 import email.utils
@@ -790,10 +791,10 @@ class CGIHTTPServerTestCase(BaseTestCase):
 
 
 class SocketlessRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, directory=None):
         request = mock.Mock()
         request.makefile.return_value = BytesIO()
-        super().__init__(request, None, None)
+        super().__init__(request, None, None, directory=directory)
 
         self.get_called = False
         self.protocol_version = "HTTP/1.1"
@@ -1068,41 +1069,91 @@ class BaseHTTPRequestHandlerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 class SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     """ Test url parsing """
     def setUp(self):
-        self.translated = os.getcwd()
-        self.translated = os.path.join(self.translated, 'filename')
-        self.handler = SocketlessRequestHandler()
+        self.translated_1 = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'filename')
+        self.translated_2 = os.path.join('foo', 'filename')
+        self.translated_3 = os.path.join('bar', 'filename')
+        self.handler_1 = SocketlessRequestHandler()
+        self.handler_2 = SocketlessRequestHandler(directory='foo')
+        self.handler_3 = SocketlessRequestHandler(directory=pathlib.PurePath('bar'))
 
     def test_query_arguments(self):
-        path = self.handler.translate_path('/filename')
-        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated)
-        path = self.handler.translate_path('/filename?foo=bar')
-        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated)
-        path = self.handler.translate_path('/filename?a=b&spam=eggs#zot')
-        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated)
+        path = self.handler_1.translate_path('/filename')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_1)
+        path = self.handler_2.translate_path('/filename')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_2)
+        path = self.handler_3.translate_path('/filename')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_3)
+
+        path = self.handler_1.translate_path('/filename?foo=bar')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_1)
+        path = self.handler_2.translate_path('/filename?foo=bar')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_2)
+        path = self.handler_3.translate_path('/filename?foo=bar')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_3)
+
+        path = self.handler_1.translate_path('/filename?a=b&spam=eggs#zot')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_1)
+        path = self.handler_2.translate_path('/filename?a=b&spam=eggs#zot')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_2)
+        path = self.handler_3.translate_path('/filename?a=b&spam=eggs#zot')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_3)
 
     def test_start_with_double_slash(self):
-        path = self.handler.translate_path('//filename')
-        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated)
-        path = self.handler.translate_path('//filename?foo=bar')
-        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated)
+        path = self.handler_1.translate_path('//filename')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_1)
+        path = self.handler_2.translate_path('//filename')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_2)
+        path = self.handler_3.translate_path('//filename')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_3)
+
+        path = self.handler_1.translate_path('//filename?foo=bar')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_1)
+        path = self.handler_2.translate_path('//filename?foo=bar')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_2)
+        path = self.handler_3.translate_path('//filename?foo=bar')
+        self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_3)
 
     def test_windows_colon(self):
         with support.swap_attr(server.os, 'path', ntpath):
-            path = self.handler.translate_path('c:c:c:foo/filename')
+            path = self.handler_1.translate_path('c:c:c:foo/filename')
+            path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_1)
+            path = self.handler_2.translate_path('c:c:c:foo/filename')
+            path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_2)
+            path = self.handler_3.translate_path('c:c:c:foo/filename')
             path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
-            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_3)
 
-            path = self.handler.translate_path('\\c:../filename')
+            path = self.handler_1.translate_path('\\c:../filename')
+            path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_1)
+            path = self.handler_2.translate_path('\\c:../filename')
+            path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_2)
+            path = self.handler_3.translate_path('\\c:../filename')
             path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
-            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_3)
 
-            path = self.handler.translate_path('c:\\c:..\\foo/filename')
+            path = self.handler_1.translate_path('c:\\c:..\\foo/filename')
             path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
-            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_1)
+            path = self.handler_2.translate_path('c:\\c:..\\foo/filename')
+            path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_2)
+            path = self.handler_3.translate_path('c:\\c:..\\foo/filename')
+            path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_3)
 
-            path = self.handler.translate_path('c:c:foo\\c:c:bar/filename')
+            path = self.handler_1.translate_path('c:c:foo\\c:c:bar/filename')
+            path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_1)
+            path = self.handler_2.translate_path('c:c:foo\\c:c:bar/filename')
+            path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_2)
+            path = self.handler_3.translate_path('c:c:foo\\c:c:bar/filename')
             path = path.replace(ntpath.sep, os.sep)
-            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated)
+            self.assertEqual(path, self.translated_3)
 
 
 class MiscTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-10-15-52-55.bpo-35640.X0lp5f.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-10-15-52-55.bpo-35640.X0lp5f.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..abdf87a623
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-10-15-52-55.bpo-35640.X0lp5f.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Allow passing a :term:`path-like object` as ``directory`` argument to the
+:class:`http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` class. Patch by Géry Ogam.