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cellxgene/server/utils/utils.py
Bruce Martin 4b96b3a635 fix incompatibility of flask reload and port searching (#793)
* WIP

* add --developer; fix incompatibility of --port and --debug

* put REST tests on separate ports

* PR review
2019-05-29 16:38:57 -07:00

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import contextlib
import errno
import socket
def find_available_port(host, port=5005):
"""
Helper method to find open port on host. Tries 5000 ports incremented from the specified port
"""
# Takes approx 2 seconds to do a scan of 5000 ports on my laptop
num_ports_to_try = 5000
for port_to_try in range(port, port + num_ports_to_try):
if is_port_available(host, port_to_try):
return port_to_try
raise socket.error(errno.EADDRINUSE, f"No port in range {port} - {port + num_ports_to_try - 1} available.")
def is_port_available(host, port):
is_available = False
with contextlib.closing(socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)) as s:
try:
s.bind((host, port))
is_available = True
except socket.error:
pass
return is_available