Web::Machine - A Perl port of Webmachine
version 0.17
use strict;
use warnings;
use Web::Machine;
{
package HelloWorld::Resource;
use strict;
use warnings;
use parent 'Web::Machine::Resource';
sub content_types_provided { [{ 'text/html' => 'to_html' }] }
sub to_html {
q{<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World Resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
</body>
</html>}
}
}
Web::Machine->new( resource => 'HelloWorld::Resource' )->to_app;
Web::Machine provides a RESTful web framework modeled as a state
machine. You define one or more resource classes. Each resource represents a
single RESTful URI end point, such as a user, an email, etc. The resource
class can also be the target for POST requests to create a new user, email,
etc.
Each resource is a state machine, and each request for a resource is handled by running the request through that state machine.
Web::Machine is built on top of Plack, but it handles the full request
and response cycle.
See Web::Machine::Manual for more details on using Web::Machine in
general, and how Web::Machine and Plack interact.
This is a port of Webmachine, actually it is much closer to the Ruby version, with a little bit of the JavaScript version and even some of the Python version thrown in for good measure.
You can learn a bit about Web::Machine's history from the slides for my 2012 YAPC::NA talk.
To learn more about Webmachine, take a look at the links in the SEE ALSO section.
NOTE: This module is a Plack::Component subclass and so follows the interface set forward by that module.
-
new( resource => $resource_classname, ?resource_args => $arg_list, ?tracing => 1|0, ?streaming => 1|0, ?request_class => $request_class )The constructor expects to get a
$resource_classname, which it will use to load and create an instance of the resource class. If that class requires any additional arguments, they can be specified with theresource_argsparameter. The contents of theresource_argsparameter will be made available to theinit()method ofWeb::Machine::Resource.The
newmethod can also take an optionaltracingparameter which it will pass on to Web::Machine::FSM and an optionalstreamingparameter, which if true will run the request in a PSGI streaming response. This can be useful if you need to run your content generation asynchronously.The optional
request_classparameter accepts the name of a module that will be used as the request object. The module must be a class that inherits from Plack::Request. Use this if you have a subclass of Plack::Request that you would like to use in your Web::Machine::Resource. -
inflate_request( $env )This takes a raw PSGI
$envand inflates it into a Plack::Request instance. By default this also uses HTTP::Headers::ActionPack to inflate the headers of the request to be complex objects. -
create_fsmThis will create the Web::Machine::FSM object to run. It will get passed the value of the
tracingconstructor parameter. -
create_resource( $request )This will create the Web::Machine::Resource instance using the class specified in the
resourceconstructor parameter. It will pass in the$requestobject and callnew_responseon the$requestobject to get a Plack::Response instance. -
finalize_response( $response )Given a
$responsewhich is a Plack::Response object, this will finalize it and return a raw PSGI response. -
call( $env )This is the
callmethod overridden from the Plack::Component superclass.
If you set the WM_DEBUG environment variable to 1 we will print
out information about the path taken through the state machine to STDERR.
If you set WM_DEBUG to diag then debugging information will be printed
using Test::More's diag() sub instead.
- The diagram - https://github.com/Webmachine/webmachine/wiki/Diagram
- Original Erlang - https://github.com/basho/webmachine
- Ruby port - https://github.com/seancribbs/webmachine-ruby
- Node JS port - https://github.com/tautologistics/nodemachine
- Python port - https://github.com/benoitc/pywebmachine
- 2012 YAPC::NA slides - https://speakerdeck.com/stevan_little/rest-from-the-trenches
- an elaborate machine is indispensable: a blog post by Justin Sheehy - http://blog.therestfulway.com/2008/09/webmachine-is-resource-server-for-web.html
- Resources, For Real This Time (with Webmachine): a video by Sean Cribbs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odRrLK87s_Y
bugs may be submitted through https://github.com/houseabsolute/webmachine-perl/issues.
- Stevan Little <[email protected]>
- Dave Rolsky <[email protected]>
- Andreas Marienborg <[email protected]>
- Andrew Nelson <[email protected]>
- Arthur Axel 'fREW' Schmidt <[email protected]>
- Carlos Fernando Avila Gratz <[email protected]>
- Fayland Lam <[email protected]>
- George Hartzell <[email protected]>
- Gregory Oschwald <[email protected]>
- Jesse Luehrs <[email protected]>
- John SJ Anderson <[email protected]>
- Mike Raynham <[email protected]>
- Nathan Cutler <[email protected]>
- Olaf Alders <[email protected]>
- Stevan Little <[email protected]>
- Thomas Sibley <[email protected]>
This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.