Echo REST service

echo.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
echo web service: this is a simple WsgiService example.
"""
import datetime
from wsgiservice import Resource, get_app, mount, validate, expires

@mount('/echo')
class EchoResource(Resource):
    """Returns whatever the user inputs."""
    @expires(datetime.timedelta(days=365))
    @validate('echo', doc='String to return.')
    def GET(self, echo):
        return {'echo': echo}

# app is a WSGI app.
app = get_app(globals())

# Serve this service on port 8000
if __name__ == '__main__':
    from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
    print "Running on port 8000. Visit http://localhost:8000/echo?echo=Hello"
    make_server('', 8000, app).serve_forever()