Today, I decided to go for the downloader component that can download
files on the behalf of the users. While looking at how to test this, I
actually noticed that the mm_unit functionality has been merged into
the minimock package. Sweet.
I wanted to keep this modular, a downloader sounds like a tool I could
use in a couple of projects. So I created a Flask extension. There's a
nice wizard script that automates the creation of the boilerplate files.
Using the wizard, I created
Flask-Downloader. It's
pretty straightforward to use. There's a download(url) function that
will return a werkzeug.FileStorage instance, just like the flask
upload hander. I'll also add a save(url) function that'll save the
url's contents to a file without returning a file-like object.
Not too much to write about, spent a lot of time researching stuff today. Hope to get done with my changes tomorrow. Let's see how that'll work out.