Table Of Contents

• Cylinder
  • Philosophy
  • Quickstart
    • Implementing pages
    • HTTP method routing
  • How requests are matched
    • The request and response objects
    • The parameters on main()
    • Raising abort() exceptions
    • abort_extra
    • abort() Redirects
    • Exception handlers
    • Handling uncaught exceptions
    • Extra parameters on main()
      • Choosing names for extra parameters
    • HTML templates and Jinja2
  • Static files
  • Why there are no index files
    • Using database connections and ORMs like SQLAlchemy
  • Thread safety
  • Sessions
  • Dynamic paths / dynamic route handling
    • Accessing the remaining path
  • Hooks
  • How configuration and environments are handled
  • Testing
  • Import caching and reload behavior
  • Logging configuration
  • request_id_header
  • Streaming
    • Streaming response bodies
    • Streaming request bodies
  • Type hints and editor support
    • Typing other parameters
  • Safeguards
    • Shallow requests in app_map() and early hooks
    • Handlers must return the same response object
    • Why these rules exist

General

• Contributing to Plasma Cylinder