Python Flask shutdown event handler

Question

I\'m using Flask as a REST endpoint which adds an application request to a queue. The queue is then consumed by a second thread.

server.py

Answer 1

There is no app.stop() if that is what you are looking for, however using module atexit you can do something similar:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/atexit.html

Consider this:

import atexit
#defining function to run on shutdown
def close_running_threads():
    for thread in the_threads:
        thread.join()
    print "Threads complete, ready to finish"
#Register the function to be called on exit
atexit.register(close_running_threads)
#start your process
app.run()

Also of note-atexit will not be called if you force your server down using Ctrl-C.

For that there is another module- signal.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/signal.html