Possible to run pynetdicom server along with Flask from same Script ??

[sscotti]

I'd like to integrate a REST api into my Docker Container that is running pynetdicom. Not sure if that is possible or how to do that since I think I'd have to run it as a child process or use multithreading or something. All new to me.

I think the basic setup for Flask is:

from flask import Flask, json (probably don't need json if I import it for pydicom)

and then I have this:

    companies = [{"id": 1, "name": "Company One"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Company Two"}]

    api = Flask(__name__)

    @api.route('/companies', methods=['GET'])
    def get_companies():
      return json.dumps(companies)
    api.run(host='0.0.0.0',port=5000,debug=True)

    # Start listening for incoming association requests
    ae.start_server(('python_mpps', 11112), block=True, evt_handlers=handlers)

Looks like I can run one server at a time, but not both. The Flask server does work if I start it first, but then the pynetdicom server does not function. Would be convenient to have both run concurrently so I can post some JSON data to the container and fetch and post some data from a mysql database that I also have integrated in the script and Docker Container.