Fake HMDMC validation for development.

You can set this running somewhere listening on some port, and then send get requests to it, e.g.

GET http://my-server:1234/validateHMDMC?hmdmc=17_999

You should get an OK (200) response, along with a block of JSON. The JSON data includes keys valid (true or false) and errorcode (an integer). If the HMDMC is valid, the error code will be zero.

{
    "valid": true,
    "errorcode": 0,
    "productclasses": []
}

The script reads a file at startup, called HMDMCs.txt by default.

The file should be formatted in the following way:

[DEFAULT]
17_000 = 0
17_001 = 3
default = 0

The file describes the error codes for different HMDMC codes.

Any string given as an HMDMC that is not explicitly listed will get the default response.

In the examples I'm assuming we're giving HMDMCs in the format YY_NNN rather than YY/NNN, since forward slashes are awkward in URLs. (This is the practice adopted by the CGAP LIMS.)

####Usage

To start a HTTP server:

# run HTTP on port 3501 with default HMDMC file
./fake_hmdmc.py 3501

To start a HTTPS server:

# run HTTPS on port 3501 with default HMDMC file
./fake_hmdmc.py -c /path/to/certfile 3501