def interact(self, prompt=">>> "):
"""Starts up the REPL, prints banner message and passes user input to handle_answer."""
print self.banner
handle_value = None
# input_handler.handle() returns input_handler.QUIT when user wants to exit.
while handle_value != input_handler.QUIT:
try:
answer = self.get_input(prompt)
except EOFError:
# User hit Ctrl-D, quit.
print # get on a newline first
break
try:
handle_value = input_handler.handle(answer)
except Exception as e:
# Catch everything
print e
else:
if handle_value != input_handler.QUIT:
print handle_value
print "Bye!"
def navigate(self, query = None):
# CherryPy passes all GET and POST variables as method parameters.
# It doesn't make a difference where the variables come from, how
# large their contents are, and so on.
#
# You can define default parameter values as usual. In this
# example, the "name" parameter defaults to None so we can check
# if a name was actually specified.
if query:
try:
response = str(input_handler.handle(query)).strip()
# Add a period and <br> instead of newlines
return response.replace("\n", ".<br/>")
except Exception as e:
return "<hr><h1>Oops! Quest couldn't handle your input.</h1>"
else:
if query is None:
# No name was specified
return 'Please enter a query.'
else:
return 'No, really, enter a query.'
