added custom proxy methods

notebooks/Testing/Veilid/Alice-Python-Server.ipynb

@@ -168,10 +168,41 @@
     "app_message = requests.post(f\"http://{host}:{port}/app_message\", json=json_data)"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "153377f6-698e-4013-9be3-0833b71ee0c4",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### Send Proxy Message "
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "271d7316-eaab-438c-9192-55a4e44b9dea",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "res = requests.get(\n",
+    "    f\"http://{host}:{port}/proxy\",\n",
+    "    json={\"url\": \"https://www.google.com\", \"dht_key\": self_dht_key},\n",
+    ")"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "77e1ad1d-379a-4899-8805-c703ad437c0d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "res.content"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "169019a3-ced3-4bb2-b812-125f759af9ed",
+   "id": "73c1f0b0-d240-4964-a88b-365ea89b1bdd",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": []

packages/grid/veilid/server/main.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # stdlib
+import json
 import os
 import sys
 
@@ -65,6 +66,19 @@ async def app_call_endpoint(
     return await app_call(dht_key=dht_key, message=message)
 
 
+@app.api_route("/proxy", methods=["GET", "POST", "PUT"])
+async def proxy(request: Request) -> dict[str, str]:
+    logger.info("Proxying request")
+    request_data = await request.json()
+    logger.info(f"Request URL: {request_data}")
+    dht_key = request_data.get("dht_key")
+    request_data.pop("dht_key")
+    logger.info(f"Request URL: {request_data}")
+    message = json.dumps(request_data).encode()
+    logger.info(f"Final Message: {message!r}")
+    return await app_call(dht_key=dht_key, message=message)
+
+
 @app.on_event("startup")
 async def startup_event() -> None:
     try: