Faster account creation by moving Nextcloud API call to background

import sys

import json

import shlex

from threading import Thread

ch = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)

ch.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

                self.respond(500, data)

                return

        self.respond(200, json.dumps({'success': True}))

        # Run Nextcloud API call in seperate thread. Needed because the API calls take 50+ seconds

        # each for unknown reasons. Instead we just run them in the background.

        Thread(target=self.call_nextcloud_api, args=(target_email, password, fallback_email, nextcloud_quota)).start()

    def respond(self, status: int, message: str):

        print(f'sending response status {status}, message {message}')

        self.send_response(status)

        self.end_headers()

        self.wfile.write(message.encode())

    def call_nextcloud_api(self, target_email: str, password: str, fallback_email: str, nextcloud_quota: str):

        # Nextcloud only creates external accounts after the first login. We login through the API

        # to trigger the account creation.

        headers = {'OCS-APIRequest': 'true'}

        print(f'status code: {r1.status_code}')

        print(r2.text)

        print(f'status code: {r2.status_code}')

        if r1.status_code != 200 or r2.status_code != 200:

            data = json.dumps({'success': False, 'message': 'internal_error'})

            self.respond(403, data)

            return

        self.respond(200, json.dumps({'success': True}))

    def respond(self, status: int, message: str):

        print(f'sending response status {status}, message {message}')

        self.send_response(status)

        self.end_headers()

        self.wfile.write(message.encode())

if __name__ == '__main__':