roa-core

Introduction

Core components of Roa framework.

If you are new to roa, please go to the documentation of roa framework.

Application

A Roa application is a structure composing and executing middlewares and an endpoint in a stack-like manner.

The obligatory hello world application:

use roa_core::App;
let app = App::new().end("Hello, World");

Endpoint

An endpoint is a request handler.

There are some build-in endpoints in roa_core.

• Functional endpoint

  A normal functional endpoint is an async function with signature: async fn(&mut Context) -> Result.

  use roa_core::{App, Context, Result};
  
  async fn endpoint(ctx: &mut Context) -> Result {
      Ok(())
  }
  
  let app = App::new().end(endpoint);
  

• Ok endpoint

  () is an endpoint always return Ok(())

  let app = roa_core::App::new().end(());
  

• Status endpoint

  Status is an endpoint always return Err(Status)

  use roa_core::{App, status};
  use roa_core::http::StatusCode;
  let app = App::new().end(status!(StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST));
  

• String endpoint

  Write string to body.

  use roa_core::App;
  
  let app = App::new().end("Hello, world"); // static slice
  let app = App::new().end("Hello, world".to_owned()); // string
  

• Redirect endpoint

  Redirect to an uri.

  use roa_core::App;
  use roa_core::http::Uri;
  
  let app = App::new().end("/target".parse::<Uri>().unwrap());
  

Cascading

The following example responds with "Hello World", however, the request flows through the logging middleware to mark when the request started, then continue to yield control through the endpoint. When a middleware invokes next.await the function suspends and passes control to the next middleware or endpoint. After the endpoint is called, the stack will unwind and each middleware is resumed to perform its upstream behaviour.

use roa_core::{App, Context, Result, Status, MiddlewareExt, Next};
use std::time::Instant;
use tracing::info;

let app = App::new().gate(logging).end("Hello, World");

async fn logging(ctx: &mut Context, next: Next<'_>) -> Result {
    let inbound = Instant::now();
    next.await?;
    info!("time elapsed: {} ms", inbound.elapsed().as_millis());
    Ok(())
}

Status Handling

You can catch or straightly throw a status returned by next.

use roa_core::{App, Context, Result, Status, MiddlewareExt, Next, throw};
use roa_core::http::StatusCode;
        
let app = App::new().gate(catch).gate(gate).end(end);

async fn catch(ctx: &mut Context, next: Next<'_>) -> Result {
    // catch
    if let Err(status) = next.await {
        // teapot is ok
        if status.status_code != StatusCode::IM_A_TEAPOT {
            return Err(status);
        }
    }
    Ok(())
}
async fn gate(ctx: &mut Context, next: Next<'_>) -> Result {
    next.await?; // just throw
    unreachable!()
}

async fn end(ctx: &mut Context) -> Result {
    throw!(StatusCode::IM_A_TEAPOT, "I'm a teapot!")
}

status_handler

App has an status_handler to handle Status thrown by the top middleware. This is the status_handler:

use roa_core::{Context, Status, Result, State};
pub fn status_handler<S: State>(ctx: &mut Context<S>, status: Status) {
    ctx.resp.status = status.status_code;
    if status.expose {
        ctx.resp.write(status.message);
    } else {
        tracing::error!("{}", status);
    }
}

HTTP Server.

Use roa_core::accept to construct a http server. Please refer to roa::tcp for more information.