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This tutorial follow Rust beta release
in Cargo.toml add:
[package]
name = "you-app-name"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["your-name"]
[dependencies.nickel]
git = "https://github.com/nickel-org/nickel.rs.git"
in main.rs add:
#[macro_use]
extern crate nickel;
use nickel::Nickel;
fn main() {
let mut server = Nickel::new();
server.utilize(router! {
get "**" => |_req, _res| {
"Hello world!"
}
});
// you can change 8080 to any port
server.listen("127.0.0.1:8080");
}Then type in terminal/console cargo run and locate to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.
After we got informative log message in console:
Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080
Ctrl-C to shutdown server
Add template to app/views/index.tpl in root of program:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>{{ page_title }}</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
Hello {{ name }}!
</h1>
</body>
</html>in main.rs replace:
server.utilize(router! {
get "**" => |_req, _res| {
"Hello world!"
}
});to:
server.get("/", tmpl_handler);and add before main function:
fn tmpl_handler<'a> (_: &mut Request, res: Response<'a>) -> MiddlewareResult<'a> {
let mut data = HashMap::<&str, &str>::new();
// add data for render
// name = {{ name }} in template
// page_title = {{ page_title }}
data.insert("name", "Alex");// change "Alex" to your name )
data.insert("page_title", "lesson 2");
res.render("app/views/index.tpl", &data)
}
fn main() {Run cargo run. Great I got my template rendered!
fn main() {
let mut server = Nickel::new();
//middleware function logs each request to console
server.utilize(middleware! { |request|
println!("logging request: {:?}", request.origin.uri);
});
// start using router
let mut router = Nickel::router();
//works only on route http://localhost:8080
router.get("/", tmpl_handler);
server.utilize(router);
// you can change 8080 to any port
server.listen("127.0.0.1:8080");
}There we add router and log messages from server. Now when run and locate to http://localhost:8080/ in browser we cen see log messages in console:
logging request: AbsolutePath("/")
Good!
Add new function for test how we can assign content type in header:
// this function add header to response for example now we add application/json
fn content_type<'a>(_: &mut Request, mut res: Response<'a>) -> MiddlewareResult<'a> {
//MediaType can be any valid type for reference see
res.set(MediaType::Json);
res.send( "{'foo':'bar'}")
}and after router.get("/", tmpl_handler); in main function add:
// go to http://localhost:8080/content-type to see this route in action
router.get("/content-type", content_type);or another variant without function with macro middleware! :
let mut router = Nickel::router();
// go to http://localhost:8080/content-type to see this route in action
router.get("/content-type", middleware! { |request, mut response|
response.set(MediaType::Json);
"{'foo':'bar'}"
});Content types available in nickel.rs you can check at this link In our code we add "Application/Json" content type. You can check it when run code and navigate in your browser to http://localhost:8080/content-type
So create file .travis.yml in root of your code and add:
1 language: rust
2 rust:
3 - 1.0.0-beta.3
4 os:
5 - linux
6 script:
7 - cargo build -v
8 - cargo testConnect travis-c to your GitHub account very easy and if you before don't try it now is time to do so.
Travis run test on every commit to GitHub repo.
On first line in our code we tell travis-c about our language and in line 2-3 we add language version he try to build.
4-5 is OS in which we test our code. In our example we use Linux.
Lines 6-7 run cargo build and cargo test.
Now every time code deplojed to GitHub travis build our code and run test.
To show 
[](https://travis-ci.org/Codenator81/nickel-demo)
Where:
[] - show image from travis-c
https://travis-ci.org - link to travis-c
Codenator81 - accaunt name on travis-c
nickel-demo.png?branch=master - repo name with added .png at end and branch tested on
(https://travis-ci.org/Codenator81/nickel-demo) - link to travis
My Cargo.toml now look like this:
[package]
name = "nickel-demo"
version = "0.0.6"
[dependencies]
nickel = "*"
postgres = "*"
in console run cargo update and cargo build
cargo update refresh your locale crates
create table blogs in your db:
CREATE TABLE blogs
(
id serial NOT NULL,
content text,
author varchar(32),
varchar(10) default to_char(CURRENT_DATE, 'yy-mm-dd')
CONSTRAINT dataset_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
)change main.rs to
#[macro_use]
extern crate nickel;
extern crate postgres;
use postgres::{Connection, SslMode};
use nickel::{Nickel, Request, Response, HttpRouter, MiddlewareResult, MediaType};
use std::collections::HashMap;
struct Blog {
id: i32,
content: String, //text
author: String, //varchar(32)
datepost: String
}
fn save_db<'a>(_: &mut Request, res: Response<'a>) -> MiddlewareResult<'a> {
//connect to database
let conn = Connection::connect("postgres://root:root@localhost/json-test", &SslMode::None).unwrap();
let blog = Blog {
id: 0,
content: "My second blogpost".to_string(),
author: "Mike".to_string(),
datepost: "".to_string()
};
// insert data in DB
conn.execute("INSERT INTO blogs (content, author) VALUES ($1, $2)",
&[&blog.content, &blog.author]).unwrap();
// render in template save.tpl
let mut data = HashMap::<&str, String>::new();
data.insert("content", blog.content);
data.insert("author", blog.author);
data.insert("page_title", "Save blog data".to_string());
res.render("app/views/blog/save.tpl", &data)
}
fn get_db_data<'a>(req: &mut Request, res: Response<'a>) -> MiddlewareResult<'a> {
let conn = Connection::connect("postgres://root:root@localhost/json-test", &SslMode::None).unwrap();
// select data with condition by id WHERE id = $1
let stmt = conn.prepare("SELECT id, content, author, datepost FROM blogs WHERE id = $1").unwrap();
// get request blogid and parse it from &str to i32
let id: Option<i32> = req.param("blogid").trim().parse::<i32>().ok();
//run query
let rows = match stmt.query(&[&id]) {
Ok(rows) => rows,
Err(err) => panic!("Error running query: {:?}", err)
};
// create init date. Should be new fn in real app
let mut blog = Blog {
id: 0,
content: "".to_string(),
author: "".to_string(),
datepost: "".to_string()
};
//get data from query and break it becouse we need one row data
for row in &rows {
blog = Blog {
id: row.get(0),
content: row.get(1),
author: row.get(2),
datepost: row.get(3)
};
break;
}
let mut data = HashMap::<&str, String>::new();
data.insert("content", blog.content);
data.insert("author", blog.author);
data.insert("datepost", blog.datepost);
data.insert("page_title", "Show blog data".to_string());
res.render("app/views/blog/show.tpl", &data)
}
fn main() {
let mut server = Nickel::new();
// start using router
let mut router = Nickel::router();
//http://localhost:8080/test-save-db
router.get("/test-save-db", save_db);
//http://localhost:8080/get-blog/1 where 1 is id in your database table
router.get("/get-blog/:blogid", get_db_data);
server.utilize(router);
server.listen("127.0.0.1:8080");
}Connect to DB Connection::connect("postgres://root:root@localhost/json-test", &SslMode::None).unwrap();
where "postgres://user:pass@localhost/db_name"
more details in code comment.
For base postgres usage in Rust look to link so now when we navigate to //http://localhost:8080/test-save-db we save data to DB an //http://localhost:8080/get-blog/1 retrieve data from DB by id.
Now we ready to start build blog/wiki in Rust!
Next we try send post from form to server and save it.
Contributors wanted!