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Make server customisations easier/cleaner

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
fastapi, python
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start at the serve_from_cli path and trace how the fallback server is created and passed to Uvicorn. The work is complete when callers can customize the server and provide extra logging information without reimplementing the fallback-server setup.

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Description

In the OpenFlexure Microscope we need to customise the server (change some logging setup, mount some directories, etc). This means we can't use serve_from_cli, because we can't use serve_from_cli we need to reimplement the logic that brings up the fallback server.

It would be good to have a way to pass in a callable that modifies the sever between creation and being passed to Uvicorn.

Note that we also supply extra logging information to the fallback server, so we would need a hook for that too.

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Python
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