Handlers

This page has documentation for two concepts specific to django-taxii-services: QueryHandlers and MessageHandlers.

MessageHandlers

In django-taxii-services, MessageHandlers are how a TAXII Service handles a request and creates a response. Each TAXII Service can have one message handler per message exchange.

The base_taxii_handlers.MessageHandler class is the base class for all TAXII Message Handlers and has a single extension point – the ‘handle_message’ function. Implementers who wish to have the most power over their MessageHandler should extend MessageHandler and implement the ‘handle_message’ function. Implementers can also re-use django-taxii-service’s built-in TAXII Message Handlers for less power, but more work already done for them.

Built-in TAXII Message Handlers have two goals: first, to provide correct functionality for the TAXII Message Exchange they support; second, to provide an extensible/reusable class where implementers can make (hopefully) simple modification(s) to a built-in MessageHandler to achieve functionality specific to their needs. Note that all built-in TAXII Message Handlers extend the base_taxii_handlers.MessageHandler class. To meet the second goal of extensibility/reusability, some built-in TAXII Message Handlers have extension points in addition to the ‘handle_message’ function. These extension points (functions) are called by the ‘handle_message’ function of the built-in TAXII Message Handler as part of the workflow for handling that message. One example of this is the ‘save_content_block’ method of the InboxMessage11Handler, which allows implementers to override just the InboxMessage11Handler’s default logic for saving content without needing to re-implement the rest of the handler’s processing logic.

QueryHandlers

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