Bokeh server - how to act like an API server and return JSON response

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I have a working Bokeh server running a nice dashboard on an AWS EC2 instance. Everything is working fine, the UI is slick and highly responsive. However, an end user of the dashboard threw me a curveball and asked me to add basic API support, i.e. optionally supply a subset of our data in plain JSON format.

So by default the dashboard will function as normal but if the user provides some URL parameter on session start then I want override the standard bokeh server response template and simply return some data in JSON format for ingestion by some other consumer.

I would rather not implement a whole new listener/Tornado service for this if I can avoid it.

TLDR - Is it possible to override the standard Bokeh server response template and return plain text JSON instead?

Thanks!

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The short answer is “no”, there is nothing built in that would afford that kind of interaction. The longer answer is that you can embed the Bokeh server machinery as a library, so in that case you could override the usual routes with custom ones that do whatever you want. It also sounds like you don’t want to do that, however I don’t have any other suggestions to offer.

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Understood, thanks Bryan.

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