Porting a Legacy Pylons Application PiecemealΒΆ

You would like to move from Pylons 1.0 to Pyramid, but you're not going to be able manage a wholesale port any time soon. You're wondering if it would be practical to start using some parts of Pyramid within an existing Pylons project.

One idea is to use a Pyramid "NotFound view" which delegates to the existing Pylons application, and port piecemeal:

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# ... obtain pylons WSGI application object ...
from mypylonsproject import thepylonsapp

class LegacyView(object):
    def __init__(self, app):
        self.app = app
    def __call__(self, request):
        return request.get_response(self.app)

if __name__ == '__main__':
   legacy_view = LegacyView(thepylonsapp)
   config = Configurator()
   config.add_view(context='pyramid.exceptions.NotFound', view=legacy_view)
   # ... rest of config ...

At that point, whenever Pyramid cannot service a request because the URL doesn't match anything, it will invoke the Pylons application as a fallback, which will return things normally. At that point you can start moving logic incrementally into Pyramid from the Pylons application until you've ported everything.