Port

[yevhenk86]

Maybe you could change the default port to 0, so the system could assign the next available port to it. Also, it would be nice then to create a function to get this port, something like:

def get_current_port(self) -> int: return self.server.server_address[1]

[amaziahub]

Hi @yevhenk86
Thank you for this Idea.
I think its a good idea to expose a port to enable flexibility for the user.

I would not change the default behavior if mimicker (by making 0 the default port)
manly because of backward compatible issues might raise.
thinking for example of change like this will "hurt" users that now expecting and targeting specifically port 8080 for shutdown.

on the other hand to achieve the behaviour you suggesting simply by:

from mimicker.mimicker import mimicker
server = mimicker(port=0)

I will add to the documentation this offer. (README)

• Amazia