I've been developing an API using FastAPI and pipenv to manage my virtual environment. To start my testing setup, I use the following commands on the console:
pipenv shell
uvicorn backend:app --reload
The API starts after a couple of seconds and everything is okay. However, recently I decided to install pdfkit to generate some PDF documents that need to be sent back to a webapp. However, after I did (using this this page as reference):
pipenv install pdfkit
Now, whenever I try to run the same uvicorn
command to start my API, the API returns the error module pdfkit not found
. I've checked that the package is properly installed and it does appear on my Pipfile and whenever I type pip freeze
once my enviroment has been activated.
Here's a snippet of the API call that returning the error:
from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
from fastapi.responses import FileResponse, StreamingResponse
from scipy.optimize import leastsq
from openpyxl import load_workbook
from openpyxl.utils.dataframe import dataframe_to_rows
from openpyxl.styles import Font
from openpyxl import Workbook
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import json
import os
# ==========================
# SETUP
# ==========================
app = FastAPI()
# ==========================
# CORS
# ==========================
origins = [
"http://127.0.0.1:5500/",
"http://127.0.0.1:8000/",
"http://localhost"
]
app.add_middleware(
CORSMiddleware,
allow_origins=["*"], # List of origins that are allowed to make cross-origin requests
allow_credentials=True, # Indicate that cookies should be supported for cross-origin requests
allow_methods=["*"], # List of HTTP methods that should be allowed for cross-origin requests
allow_headers=["*"], # List of HTTP headers that should be supported for cross-origin requests
)
# ==========================
# GET: PDF RENDERING
# ==========================
@app.get("/pdf")
def render_pdf(pdf_content: str):
from jinja2 import Template, Environment, FileSystemLoader
import pdfkit as pdf
# Jinja2 template "generator" or "main" object (AKA Environment)
env = Environment(loader = FileSystemLoader('PDF Rendering'), trim_blocks=True, lstrip_blocks=True)
# Template parameters
template_params = {
"BASE_PATH": os.getcwd(),
"REPORT_CONTENT": pdf_content,
}
# Render template
template = env.get_template("pdf_template.j2")
template_text = template.render(template_params)
with open("PDF Rendering/render.html", "w") as f:
f.write(template_text)
# Turn rendered file to PDF
pdf.from_file("PDF Rendering/render.html", "PDF Rendering/render.pdf")
return {
"message": "Success"
}
(The Jinja section works mind you, but for some reason, the pdfkit one doesnt)