A web server that prints POST requests to stdout

printrequest.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Print POST request body to console
#
# To run it..
# virtualenv env
# source ./env/bin/activate
# pip install cherrypy
# python main.py
#
# To test it...
# curl -X POST -d '["aaaa", ["spam", ["eggs", ["lumberjack", ["knights", ["ni", ["dead", ["parrot", ["fresh fruit"]]]]]]]], ["aaa", "bbb"], ["cccc", "dddd"]]' -H "Content-Type: application/json" localhost:8081

import pprint

import cherrypy


@cherrypy.expose
class ToConsole(object):

    @cherrypy.tools.accept(media='text/plain')
    def GET(self):
        return 'Hello'

    @cherrypy.tools.json_in()
    def POST(self):
        pprint.pprint(cherrypy.request.json)
        return 'OK'


if __name__ == '__main__':
    conf = {
        '/': {
            'request.dispatch': cherrypy.dispatch.MethodDispatcher(),
            'tools.response_headers.on': True,
            'tools.response_headers.headers': [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')],
        }
    }
    cherrypy.config.update({'server.socket_host': '0.0.0.0', 'server.socket_port': 8081})
    cherrypy.quickstart(ToConsole(), '/', conf)