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Stef

On Jul 1, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

> 
> On 01 Jul 2011, at 12:53, Janko Mivšek wrote:
> 
>> Why not simply:
>> 
>>      (ZnServer startOn: 1337)
>>         onRequestRespond: [:request |: ZnResponse ok: 'Hello world']
>> 
>> 
>> This is the closest form to that node.js example and really show the
>> power of Smalltalk and its closures. Also understandable to everyone
>> including the (IMHO) majority, who don't understand design patterns like
>> Delegate well.
> 
> If you compare all the Zn delegates that are included, such as Nick's 
> ZnDispatcherDelegate, I think it is clear that #handleRequest: is a good 
> interface. Different use cases require delegate's with more or less features 
> and thus complexity.
> 
> But for the sake of short/elegant examples, I added the 
> ZnSingleThreadedServer>>#onRequestRespond: convenience method, so the 
> examples now become:
> 
> (ZnServer startDefaultOn: 1337)
>       onRequestRespond: [ :request | ZnResponse ok: (ZnEntity text: 'Hello 
> World!') ].
> 
> and
> 
> (ZnServer startDefaultOn: 1337)
>       onRequestRespond: [ :request | ZnResponse ok: (ZnEntity with: request 
> contents) ].
> 
> Sven
> 
> 
> 


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