WSAPI is an API that abstracts the web server from Lua web applications. By coding against WSAPI your application can run on any of the supported servers and interfaces (currently CGI, FastCGI and Xavante, on Windows and UNIX-based systems).
WSAPI provides a set of helper libraries that help with request processing and output buffering. You can also write applications that act as filters that provide some kind of service to other applications, such as authentication, file uploads, request isolation, or multiplexing. Version 1.4 of WSAPI has just been released. Get it at the github download page, https://github.com/keplerproject/wsapi/downloads, or better yet, install it using LuaRocks: luarocks install [wsapi|wsapi-xavante|wsapi-fcgi] There are also UNIX installer scripts that compile and install Lua 5.1.4, LuaRocks 2.0.3, and WSAPI-Xavante 1.4 and its dependencies: wsapi-install-1.4 downloads the necessary packages from the net (see "wsapi-install-1.4 --help" for installation options), and wsapi-aio-install-1.4.tar.gz has everything necessary for offline installation (run wsapi-install-1.4 inside the directory the tarball unpacks). Both installers are available in the github download page, https://github.com/keplerproject/wsapi/downloads. Changelog: * Remove unecessary !# from sapi.lua * Added mock WSAPI handler (by Norman Clarke) * Flush output pipe after writing content * Respect rules specified in config file for "wsapi" launcher * Fix bug where common.load_wsapi would not return the module if it was already require'd * Fix bug where wsapi.ringer would try to close an already closed state * Refactoring of request, response, and util modules, to work with mk (http://github.com/keplerproject/mk) * New methods for wsapi.request: qs_encode (encodes a table as a query string), route_link (makes a link to a mk route, link (makes an internal app link), absolute_link (makes an absolute link), static_link (makes an external link), empty (checks if a string is just blanks or nil), empty_param (checks if a request param is empty), and renamed parse_post_data method to parse_post * New methods for wsapi.response: forward (sets path_info and returns an mk "keep parsing" code), content_type (sets Content-Type header), redirect (sets Location header and returns redirect WSAPI response), changed write to take multiple parameters and flatten nested tables * New functions in wsapi.util: make_env_get (makes a mock WSAPI environment for a GET request from a query string), make_env_post (makes a mock WSAPI environment for a POST request from a postdata string, a postdata type, default x-www-form-urlencoded, and a query string) Binary rocks for Windows will follow shortly. -- Fabio Mascarenhas _______________________________________________ Kepler-Project mailing list Kepler-Project@lists.luaforge.net http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kepler-project http://www.keplerproject.org/
