diff --git a/CFFI.rst b/CFFI.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..218806c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/CFFI.rst @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +The CFFI Plugin +=============== + +Introduction +^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +A new Python plugin supports PyPy3 (not Python 2). It is based on the older +PyPy plugin and the cffi library's embedding feature. It should work on Linux +or on OSX. + +Even more of this plugin is implemented in Python than in the previous PyPy +plugin. It is possible to redefine the plugin at runtime in Python or +to write a uWSGI event loop. + +It doesn't work on PyPy3 7.3.1 due to a bug, but it should work on other +recent versions of PyPy or a nightly build. + +Since the cffi embedding interface is independent of the Python implementation, +this plugin can also be compiled for CPython 3, but with reduced performance +compared to the classic Python plugin or the PyPy3 cffi plugin. + +This plugin uses ``rpath`` so that the plugin finds the Python library it was +complied for without having to set an option or environment variable. + +Installation +^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: sh + + pypy3 uwsgiconfig.py --plugin plugins/cffi + +Options +^^^^^^^ + +* ``cffi-home`` - set PYTHONHOME/virtualenv +* ``cffi-wsgi`` - load a WSGI module (or use ``--mount`` instead) +* ``cffi-init`` - load a module during init (to customize the plugin) +* ``cffi-eval`` - evaluate Python code before fork() +* ``cffi-eval-post-fork`` - evaluate Python code soon after fork() +* ``cffi-exec`` - execute Python code from file before fork() +* ``cffi-exec-post-fork`` - execute Python code from file soon after fork() + +The plugin reads the PYTHONPATH enviroment variable. + +Using ``--mount`` +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +``--mount`` is a plugin-independent option to load applications. The syntax is +``--mount =`` + +```` is usually ``/`` or e.g. ``/app1`` or ``/app2``. If there is only one application, it can be anything; the first app loaded is the default. If there are multiple, uwsgi will look them up based on the path if you pass ``--manage-script-name``. + +```` is either the path to a file ending in ``.py`` or ``.wsgi`` defining a global ``application`` callable, or the name of an importable module ``mod`` or ``pkg.mod``, or a colon-separated ``pkg.mod:app`` to use a callable besides the default ``application``. + +REPL trick +^^^^^^^^^^ + +It's useful to have a shell. You could use a builtin repl: + +.. code-block:: sh + + uwsgi --socket :3031 --plugin cffi --cffi-eval "import code; code.interact()" --honour-stdin + +Or IPython installed in a virtualenv: + +.. code-block:: sh + + /uwsgi --socket :3031 --plugin cffi --cffi-home $VIRTUAL_ENV --cffi-eval "import IPython; IPython.embed()" --honour-stdin + +The uWSGI C API +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +The cffi plugin automatically wraps most of ``uwsgi.h``. It is reachable through ``_uwsgi.ffi`` and ``_uwsgi.lib``. Functions missing from this plugin's version of the ``uwsgi`` module could be accessed this way. + +.. code-block:: python + + >>> import _uwsgi + >>> _uwsgi.lib.uwsgi_endswith(b'foobar', b'bar') + 1 + +Learn how to use ``cffi`` at https://cffi.readthedocs.io/ + +Notes +^^^^^ + +* The cffi plugin shouldn't be used with the python plugin, but it doesn't check. Don't do it! +* The plugin does not support application dictionaries or ``uwsgi.applications``. +* The plugin always runs in the equivalent of ``--single-interpreter`` mode. +* The plugin does not work with the default ``--async`` event loop. diff --git a/index.rst b/index.rst index 3b42bbe2..d3e083a9 100644 --- a/index.rst +++ b/index.rst @@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ Language support Python PyPy + CFFI PHP Perl Ruby @@ -281,7 +282,7 @@ Stable releases Changelog-2.0.17 Changelog-2.0.16 Changelog-2.0.15 - Changelog-2.0.14 + Changelog-2.0.14 Changelog-2.0.13.1 Changelog-2.0.13 Changelog-2.0.12