Introducing vibe.d!

[David]

Am 27.04.2012 13:18, schrieb Sönke Ludwig:
> Am 27.04.2012 11:57, schrieb David:
>> I am not sure if you're aware of Flask, Flask is a microframework for
>> Python.
>>
>> It provides something called "Blueprints", you can register e.g.
>> "routes" to this Blueprint and to use them you've to add them to the
>> main application. This makes code way more readable!
>> Also some kind of after_request and before_request handlers would be
>> great, you could use them e.g. fetching a user from the database and
>> providing it to the handler (over a thread-local?).
>
> I didn't know flask before and the website seems to be down currently ;)

Yes :(
Admin paused the server, too much IO or something.

> But is the UrlRouter (see http://vibed.org/docs#http-routing and
> http://vibed.org/api/vibe.http.router#UrlRouter) something equivalent?
>
> It allows you to specify multiple patterns that are matched in sequence
> until a request handler writes a response:
>
> auto r = new UrlRouter;
> r.any("*", &performAuth);
> r.get("/", &renderHomePage);
> listenHttp(settings, r);
>
> This would first always match performAuth, which could check the user
> credentials and write out a message if the user is not authenticated.
> Otherwise it just does nothing and the router will continue to the next
> match, which is renderHomePage() in this case for "GET /".

This is useful!

> Whats not directly possible in the router is something like
> after_request. But you can do it easily by wrapping the call:
>
> auto r = new UrlRouter;
> //...
> listenHttp(settings, (req, res){
> before_request(req, res);
> r.handleRequest(req, res);
> after_request(req, res);
> });

Awesome!