tracebacks in server code

Output both to the console and the response body.

Return correct status codes.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/lib.py b/lib.py
index 3b19daa..e95265f 100644
--- a/lib.py
+++ b/lib.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import os
 import re
+import sys
+import traceback
 from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
 
 posts = {}
@@ -10,22 +12,29 @@ def find_get(path):
     """ [Internal] - Used by the Handler class to try and
         find the correct handler for a GET request.
     """
+    if path not in gets:
+        return 404, ""
     try:
-        return gets[path]()
-    except Exception as e:
-        print(type(e), e)
-        return "404"
+        return 200, gets[path]()
+    except Exception:
+        tb = traceback.format_exc()
+        print(tb, file=sys.stderr)
+        return 500, "<code>\n{}\n</code>".format(tb.replace("\n", "<br>\n")
+                                                   .replace(" ", "&nbsp;"))
 
 
 def find_post(path, request):
     """ [Internal] - Used by the Handler class to try and
         find the correct handler for a POST request.
     """
+    if path not in posts:
+        return 404, ""
     try:
-        return posts[path](request)
-    except Exception as e:
-        print(type(e), e)
-        return "404"
+        return 200, posts[path](request)
+    except Exception:
+        tb = traceback.format_exc()
+        print(tb, file=sys.stderr)
+        return 500, f"<code>{tb}</code>"
 
 
 def get_relative_path():
@@ -106,21 +115,14 @@ class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
         different requests made to our server.
     """
 
-    def _set_headers(self):
-        """ Sets the headers for a response. This is to tell the browser
-            the status of the request that was sent. '200' means that everything
-            went fine.
-        """
-        self.send_response(200)
-        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
-        self.end_headers()
-
     def do_GET(self):
         """ Tries to find the handler for this GET request. The handler can
             return either `bytes` or `str`. 
         """
-        self._set_headers()
-        res = find_get(self.path)
+        status, res = find_get(self.path)
+        self.send_response(status)
+        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
+        self.end_headers()
         if hasattr(res, 'encode'):
             self.wfile.write(res.encode())
         else:
@@ -131,11 +133,11 @@ class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             will get the 'body' of the request as the argument. The body
             is a `str`, formatted in JSON.
         """
-        self.send_response(200)
-        self.end_headers()
         content_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length'])
         body = self.rfile.read(content_length)
-        res = find_post(self.path, body.decode('utf-8'))
+        status, res = find_post(self.path, body.decode('utf-8'))
+        self.send_response(status)
+        self.end_headers()
         self.wfile.write(res.encode())