move creation of server to WSGIServer function so that it can be customized by overwriting it.

Author: anandology

web/httpserver.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import webapi as web
 import net
 import utils
-from wsgiserver import CherryPyWSGIServer
 
 def runbasic(func, server_address=("0.0.0.0", 8080)):
  """
@@ -140,14 +139,21 @@ def runsimple(func, server_address=("0.0.0.0", 8080)):
  func = StaticMiddleware(func)
  func = LogMiddleware(func)
 
- server = CherryPyWSGIServer(server_address, func, server_name="localhost")
+ server = WSGIServer(server_address, func)
 
  print "http://%s:%d/" % server_address
  try:
  server.start()
  except KeyboardInterrupt:
  server.stop()
 
+def WSGIServer(server_address, wsgi_app):
+ """Creates CherryPy WSGI server listening at `server_address` to serve `wsgi_app`.
+ This function can be overwritten to customize the webserver or use a different webserver.
+ """
+ from wsgiserver import CherryPyWSGIServer
+ return CherryPyWSGIServer(server_address, wsgi_app, server_name="localhost")
+
 class StaticApp(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
  """WSGI application for serving static files."""
  def __init__(self, environ, start_response):