Loading and importing

Kopf requires the source files with the handlers on the command line. It does not do any attempts to guess the user’s intentions or to introduce any conventions (at least, now).

There are two ways to specify them (both mimicking the Python interpreter):

• Direct script files:

  kopf run file1.py file2.py
  

• Importable modules:

  kopf run -m package1.module1 -m package2.module2
  

• Or mixed:

  kopf run file1.py file2.py -m package1.module1 -m package2.module2
  

Which way to use depends on how the source code is structured, and is out of the scope of Kopf.

Each of the mentioned files and modules will be imported. The handlers should be registered during the import. This is usually done by using the function decorators — see Handlers.