Sanic Framework

User Guide

  • General
    • Introduction
      • What is it?
      • Goal
      • Features
      • Sponsor
      • Join the Community
      • Contribution
    • Getting Started
      • Install
      • Hello, world application
      • Sanic Extensions
  • Basics
    • Sanic Application
      • Instance
      • Application context
      • App Registry
      • Configuration
      • Factory pattern
      • Customization
    • Handlers
      • A word about _async_...
      • A fully annotated handler
      • Naming your handlers
    • Request
      • Body
      • Context
      • Parameters
      • Arguments
      • Current request getter
    • Response
      • Methods
      • Default status
      • Returning JSON data
    • Routing
      • Adding a route
      • HTTP methods
      • Path parameters
      • Generating a URL
      • Websockets routes
      • Strict slashes
      • Static files
      • Route context
    • Listeners
      • Attaching a listener
      • Order of execution
      • ASGI Mode
    • Middleware
      • Attaching middleware
      • Modification
      • Responding early
      • Order of execution
    • Headers
      • Request
      • Response
    • Cookies
      • Reading
      • Writing
      • Deleting
      • Eating
    • Background Tasks
      • Creating Tasks
      • Adding tasks before `app.run
      • Named tasks
  • Advanced
    • Class Based Views
      • Why use them?
      • Defining a view
      • Path parameters
      • Decorators
      • Generating a URL
    • Proxy Configuration
      • Forwarded header
      • Traditional proxy headers
      • Examples
    • Streaming
      • Request streaming
      • Response streaming
      • File streaming
    • Websockets
      • Routing
      • Handler
      • Configuration
    • Versioning
      • Per route
      • Per Blueprint
      • Per Blueprint Group
      • Version prefix
    • Signals
      • Adding a signal
      • Built-in signals
      • Events
      • Dispatching
    • Custom CLI Commands
  • Best Practices
    • Blueprints
      • Overview
      • Creating and registering
      • Copying
      • Blueprint groups
      • Middleware
      • Exceptions
      • Static files
      • Listeners
      • Versioning
      • Composable
      • Generating a URL
    • Exceptions
      • Using Sanic exceptions
      • Exception properties
      • Handling
      • Built-in error handling
      • Custom error handling
      • Fallback handler
      • Contextual Exceptions
      • Error reporting
    • Decorators
      • Example
      • Templates
    • Logging
      • Quick Start
      • Sanic's loggers
      • Default logging configuration
      • Changing Sanic loggers
      • Access logger additional parameters
      • Legacy logging
    • Testing
  • Running Sanic
    • Configuration
      • Basics
      • Loading
      • Builtin values
      • Timeouts
      • Proxy configuration
    • Development
      • Debug mode
      • Automatic Reloader
      • Development REPL
      • Complete development mode
      • Automatic TLS certificate
    • Running Sanic
      • Sanic Server
      • ASGI
      • Gunicorn
      • Performance considerations
    • Worker Manager
      • How Sanic Server starts processes
      • Using shared context between worker processes
      • Access to the multiplexer
      • Worker state
      • Built-in non-server processes
      • Inspector
      • Running custom processes
      • Single process mode
      • Sanic and multiprocessing
    • Dynamic Applications
    • Inspector
      • Getting Started
      • Using the Inspector
      • Built-in Commands
      • Custom Commands
      • Using in production
      • Configuration
  • Deployment
    • Caddy
      • Introduction
      • Proxied Sanic app
      • Caddy is simple
      • Advanced configuration
    • Nginx
      • Introduction
      • Proxied Sanic app
      • SSL certificates
      • Nginx configuration
      • Running as a service
    • Docker
      • Introduction
      • Build Image
      • Start Container
      • Use docker-compose
  • How to ...
    • Table of Contents
    • Application Mounting
    • Authentication
      • server.py
      • login.py
      • auth.py
    • Autodiscovery
      • server.py
      • utility.py
      • blueprints/level1.py
      • blueprints/one/two/level3.py
      • listeners/something.py
      • parent/child/__init__.py
      • parent/child/nested.py
    • CORS
      • cors.py
      • options.py
    • ORM
      • Mayim
      • SQLAlchemy
      • Tortoise-ORM
    • Static Redirects
      • app.py
      • client/hello_world.html
      • client/hello_world.css
      • files/grottoes.jpg
    • TLS/SSL/HTTPS
      • Single domain and single certificate
      • Multiple domains with separate certificates
      • Accessing TLS information in handlers via `request.conn_info` fields
      • Redirect HTTP to HTTPS, with certificate requests still over HTTP
      • Get certificates for your domain names

Plugins

  • Sanic Extensions
    • Getting Started
      • Features
      • Minimum requirements
      • Install
      • Extend your application
    • HTTP - Methods
      • Auto-endpoints
      • Additional method support
    • HTTP - CORS Protection
      • Basic implementation
      • Configuration
      • Route level overrides
    • OpenAPI - Basics
      • Changing specification metadata
    • OpenAPI - UI
      • Config options
    • OpenAPI - Decorators
      • Definition decorator
      • Field-specific decorators
      • Integration with Pydantic
    • OpenAPI - Auto Documentation
      • Summary and description
      • Operation level YAML
      • Excluding docstrings
    • OpenAPI - Security
      • Document the scheme
      • Document the endpoints
    • Convenience
      • Fixed serializer
      • Custom serializer
      • Request counter
    • Templating - Jinja
      • Dependencies
      • Rendering a template from a file
      • Rendering a template from a string
      • Development and auto-reload
      • Configuration
    • Templating - html5tagger
    • Dependency Injection
      • Basic implementation
      • Additional constructors
      • Arbitrary constructors
      • Objects from the `Request
      • Injecting services
      • Generic types
      • Configuration
    • Validation
      • Implementation
      • What can be validated?
    • Health Monitor
      • Setup
      • How does it work
      • Diagnostics endpoint
      • Configuration
    • Background Logger
      • Setup
      • How does it work
      • Configuration
    • Configuration
      • Manual `extend
      • Settings
    • Custom Extensions
      • Anatomy of an extension
      • Extension preregistration
  • Sanic Testing
    • Getting Started
      • Minimum requirements
      • Install
      • Basic Usage
    • Test Clients
      • Regular sync client: `SanicTestClient
      • ASGI async client: `SanicASGITestClient
      • Persistent service client: `ReusableClient

Release Notes

  • 2025
    • Sanic 25.3
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • Thank you
  • 2024
    • Sanic 24.12
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • Thank you
    • Sanic 24.6
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • Thank you
  • 2023
    • Sanic 23.12
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • Thank you
    • Sanic 23.9
    • Sanic 23.6
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • Thank you
    • Sanic 23.3
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • Thank you
  • 2022
    • Sanic 22.12
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • News
      • Thank you
    • Sanic 22.9
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • Thank you
    • Sanic 22.6
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • Thank you
    • Sanic 22.3
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • News
      • Thank you
  • 2021
    • Sanic 21.12
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • News
      • Thank you
    • Sanic 21.9
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • News
      • Thank you
    • Sanic 21.6
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • News
      • Thank you
    • Sanic 21.3
      • Introduction
      • What to know
      • News
      • Thank you
  • Changelog
    • Version 25.3.0 🔶
    • Version 24.12.0 🔷
    • Version 24.6.0
    • Version 23.12.0 🔷
    • Version 23.9.0
    • Version 23.6.0
    • Version 23.3.0
    • Version 22.12.0
    • Version 22.9.1
    • Version 22.9.0
    • Version 22.6.2
    • Version 22.6.1
    • Version 22.6.0
    • Version 22.3.0
    • Version 21.12.1
    • Version 21.12.0
    • Version 21.9.3
    • Version 21.9.2
    • Version 21.9.1
    • Version 21.9.0
    • Version 21.6.1
    • Version 21.6.0
    • Version 21.3.2
    • Version 21.3.1
    • Version 21.3.0
    • Version 20.12.3
    • Version 20.12.2
    • Version 19.12.5
    • Version 20.12.0
    • Version 20.9.1
    • Version 19.12.3
    • Version 20.9.0
    • Version 20.6.3
    • Version 20.6.2
    • Version 20.6.1
    • Version 20.6.0
    • Version 20.3.0
    • Version 19.12.0
    • Version 19.6.3
    • Version 19.6.2
    • Version 19.3
    • Version 18.12
    • Version 0.8
    • Version 0.1

Organization

  • Contributing
    • Installation
    • Dependency Changes
    • Running all tests
    • Run unittests
    • Run lint checks
    • Run type annotation checks
    • Run other checks
    • Run Static Analysis
    • Run Documentation sanity check
    • Code Style
    • Pull requests
    • Documentation
  • Code of Conduct
    • Our Pledge
    • Our Standards
    • Our Responsibilities
    • Scope
    • Enforcement
    • Attribution
  • S.C.O.P.E. (Governance)
    • Goals
    • Overview
    • Structure
    • Roles and responsibilities
  • Policies
    • Versioning
    • Reporting a Vulnerability
    • Release Schedule
    • Deprecation

API Reference

  • Application
    • sanic.app
    • sanic.config
    • sanic.application
  • Blueprint
    • sanic.blueprints
    • sanic.blueprint_group
  • Constant
    • sanic.constants
  • Core
    • sanic.cookies
    • sanic.handlers
    • sanic.headers
    • sanic.middleware
    • sanic.mixins
    • sanic.request
    • sanic.response
    • sanic.views
  • Display
    • sanic.pages
  • Exception
    • sanic.errorpages
    • sanic.exceptions
  • Model
    • sanic.models
  • Routing
    • sanic.router
    • sanic.signals
  • Server
    • sanic.http
    • sanic.server
    • sanic.worker
  • Utility
    • sanic.compat
    • sanic.helpers
    • sanic.logging
    • sanic.utils

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