create dictionary-like object that mimics the cgi.FieldStorage() object having both a .value property, and a .getvalue() method
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Copy to clipboard1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 | # The FakeStorage class mimics the FieldStorage object in this limited respect:
# 1. we can initialize our dummy 'form' like this:
# form = FakeStorage()
# form['sparqlQuery'] = "query string"
#
# and access it like this:
# form.getvalue("sparqlQuery")
#
# OR
#
# 2. we can initialize it as an ordinary dict like this:
# form = {"serialize": FakeStorage('serialization format string')}
#
# and access it like this:
# form["serialize"].value
class FakeStorage(dict):
def __init__(self, s=None):
self.value = s
def getvalue(self, k):
return self[k]
# opt. 1:
form = FakeStorage()
form['sparqlQuery'] = "query string"
# then access the form thus:
form.getvalue("sparqlQuery")
# opt. 2: initialize `form` as an ordinary dict:
form = {'serialize': FakeStorage('n3')}
# and access it like this:
form["serialize"].value
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There's probably a much smarter way to do this in the CGI module or in urllib, but this is my quick and dirty solution. I wanted to be able to run cgi scripts from the command line where there was no incoming request from a web page. Typically the FieldStorage object in an ordinary request from the web page is created thus: form = cgi.FieldStorage() and then accessed using form['key'].value or by means of the getvalue() method: form.getvalue('key'). I wanted to be able create a mock request so that the script could be executed from the command line, or from within my editor during development or debugging.
NB: the cgi.FieldStorage.getvalue() method has an optional second argument providing a default value. FakeStorage does not.
