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# Writing a custom Spawner
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Each single-user server is started by a [Spawner][].
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The Spawner represents an abstract interface to a process,
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and a custom Spawner needs to be able to take three actions:
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1. start the process
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2. poll whether the process is still running
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3. stop the process
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See a list of custom Spawners [on the wiki](https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterhub/wiki/Spawners).
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## Spawner.start
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`Spawner.start` should start the single-user server for a single user.
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Information about the user can be retrieved from `self.user`,
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an object encapsulating the user's name, authentication, and server info.
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When `Spawner.start` returns, it should have stored the IP and port
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of the single-user server in `self.user.server`.
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**NOTE:** when writing coroutines, *never* `yield` in between a db change and a commit.
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Most `Spawner.start`s should have something looking like:
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```python
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def start(self):
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self.user.server.ip = 'localhost' # or other host or IP address, as seen by the Hub
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self.user.server.port = 1234 # port selected somehow
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self.db.commit() # always commit before yield, if modifying db values
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yield self._actually_start_server_somehow()
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```
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When `Spawner.start` returns, the single-user server process should actually be running,
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not just requested. JupyterHub can handle `Spawner.start` being very slow
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(such as PBS-style batch queues, or instantiating whole AWS instances)
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via relaxing the `Spawner.start_timeout` config value.
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## Spawner.poll
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`Spawner.poll` should check if the spawner is still running.
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It should return `None` if it is still running,
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and an integer exit status, otherwise.
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For the local process case, this uses `os.kill(PID, 0)`
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to check if the process is still around.
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## Spawner.stop
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`Spawner.stop` should stop the process. It must be a tornado coroutine,
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and should return when the process has finished exiting.
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## Spawner state
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JupyterHub should be able to stop and restart without having to teardown
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single-user servers. This means that a Spawner may need to persist
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some information that it can be restored.
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A dictionary of JSON-able state can be used to store this information.
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Unlike start/stop/poll, the state methods must not be coroutines.
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In the single-process case, this is only the process ID of the server:
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```python
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def get_state(self):
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"""get the current state"""
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state = super().get_state()
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if self.pid:
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state['pid'] = self.pid
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return state
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def load_state(self, state):
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"""load state from the database"""
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super().load_state(state)
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if 'pid' in state:
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self.pid = state['pid']
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def clear_state(self):
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"""clear any state (called after shutdown)"""
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super().clear_state()
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self.pid = 0
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```
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## Spawner options form
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(new in 0.4)
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Some deployments may want to offer options to users to influence how their servers are started.
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This may include cluster-based deployments, where users specify what resources should be available,
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or docker-based deployments where users can select from a list of base images.
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This feature is enabled by setting `Spawner.options_form`, which is an HTML form snippet
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inserted unmodified into the spawn form.
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If the `Spawner.options_form` is defined, when a user would start their server, they will be directed to a form page, like this:
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If `Spawner.options_form` is undefined, the users server is spawned directly, and no spawn page is rendered.
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See [this example](../examples/spawn-form/jupyterhub_config.py) for a form that allows custom CLI args for the local spawner.
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### `Spawner.options_from_form`
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Options from this form will always be a dictionary of lists of strings, e.g.:
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```python
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{
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'integer': ['5'],
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'text': ['some text'],
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'select': ['a', 'b'],
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}
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```
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When formdata arrives, it is passed through `Spawner.options_from_form(formdata)`,
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which is a method to turn the form data into the correct structure.
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This method must return a dictionary, and is meant to interpret the lists-of-strings into the correct types, e.g. for the above form it would look like:
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```python
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def options_from_form(self, formdata):
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options = {}
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options['integer'] = int(formdata['integer'][0]) # single integer value
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options['text'] = formdata['text'][0] # single string value
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options['select'] = formdata['select'] # list already correct
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options['notinform'] = 'extra info' # not in the form at all
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return options
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```
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which would return:
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```python
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{
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'integer': 5,
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'text': 'some text',
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'select': ['a', 'b'],
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'notinform': 'extra info',
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}
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```
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When `Spawner.spawn` is called, this dict is accessible as `self.user_options`.
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[Spawner]: ../jupyterhub/spawner.py
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