It was just too painful to find a combination of versions of gunicorn,
gevent, eventlet, pyuwsgi etc. that could work on all of my systems.
On the other hand, Tornado works out of the box with no headaches.
Also in this commit:
- Updated a bunch of outdated/required integration dependencies.
- Black'd and LINTed a couple of old plugins.
The eventlet API has way too many dependency issues with gunicorn.
Still TODO: Fix or at least mitigate the WSGI workers timeout issue when
they handle websocket connections.
The websocket service is no longer provided by a different service,
controlled by a different thread running on another port.
Instead, it's now exposed directly over Flask routes, using
WSGI+eventlet+simple_websocket.
Also, the SSL context options have been removed from `backend.http`, for
sake of simplicity. If you want to enable SSL, you can serve Platypush
through a reverse proxy like nginx.
Added `waitress` dependency. For performance and security reasons, it's
better to always run the Flask application inside of a uWSGI server.
`waitress` also makes things easier by avoiding to ask the user to
manually provide the external executable arguments, as it was the case
with `uwsgi` and `gunicorn`.
Added Alembic environment and `run_db_migrations` logic to the entities
engine so database schema changes can be processed as soon as the
application is started.
SQLAlchemy 2 has introduced several breaking changes that can break
several things in the application - especially where the code uses
`connection.execute()` with raw SQL statements.
We need to temporarily force the installation of versions from the 1.x
branch, while migrating the existing code to the new version.
PyJWT is a very brittle and cumbersome dependency that expects several
cryptography libraries to be already installed on the system, and it can
lead to hard-to-debug errors when ported to different systems.
Moreover, it installs the whole `cryptography` package, which is several
MBs in size, takes time to compile, and it requires a Rust compiler to
be present on the target machine.
Platypush will now use the Python-native `rsa` module to handle JWT
tokens.
If Platypush is supposed to work also without a manually created
`config.yaml`, and the HTTP backend is enabled by default in that
configuration, then Flask and companions should be among the required
dependencies.
