Flask源码阅读（九）——响应

1.Flask调用视图函数后，会将其返回值作为响应内容。如果不想返回由1个，2个或者多个值组成的元组，Flask视图函数还可以返回Response对象。make_response()函数可接受1个，2个或者着多个参数，并返回一个Response对象。

2.源码

def make_response(self, rv):
        """Converts the return value from a view function to a real
        response object that is an instance of :attr:`response_class`.

        The following types are allowd for `rv`:

        ======================= ===========================================
        :attr:`response_class`  the object is returned unchanged
        :class:`str`            a response object is created with the
                                string as body
        :class:`unicode`        a response object is created with the
                                string encoded to utf-8 as body
        :class:`tuple`          the response object is created with the
                                contents of the tuple as arguments
        a WSGI function         the function is called as WSGI application
                                and buffered as response object
        ======================= ===========================================

        :param rv: the return value from the view function
        """
        if isinstance(rv, self.response_class):
            return rv
        if isinstance(rv, basestring):
            return self.response_class(rv)
        if isinstance(rv, tuple):
            return self.response_class(*rv)
        return self.response_class.force_type(rv, request.environ)

rv是视图函数的返回值。
isinstance()是python内建函数，用来判断类的继承关系。
三个if语句分别判断rv是否继承response_class，basestring，tuple（元组），分别返回rv，response_class中的rv。最后该函数将从视图函数的返回值转换为真正的，一个实例的响应对象。
basestring是str和unicode的超类（父类），也是抽象类，因此不能被调用和实例化，但可以被用来判断一个对象是否为str或者unicode的实例，isinstance(obj, basestring)等价于isinstance(obj, (str, unicode))；
response_class的源码：

    #: the class that is used for response objects.  See
    #: :class:`~flask.Response` for more information.
    response_class = Response

Response来源

class Response(ResponseBase):
    """The response object that is used by default in flask.  Works like the response object from Werkzeug but is set to have a HTML mimetype by default.  Quite often you don't have to create this object yourself because:meth:`~flask.Flask.make_response` will take care of that for you.

    If you want to replace the response object used you can subclass this and set :attr:`~flask.Flask.request_class` to your subclass.
    """
    default_mimetype = 'text/html'

在flask中，相应对象是默认被使用的。工作，比如源自于WERKZEUG的响应对象，但在默认情况下设置一个HTML的MIME类型。很多时候，您不必自己创建这个对象，因为：meth：〜flask.Flask.make_response会为你保管好。
如果您想更换已经使用的相应对象，那么可以继承这一点并且设置属性
attr:~flask.Flask.request_class到您的子类。