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ocaml-webmachine
ocaml-webmachine is a layer on top of cohttp that implements a state-machine-based HTTP request processor. It's particularly well-suited for writing RESTful APIs. As the name suggests, this is an OCaml port of the webmachine project.
Installation
Install the library and its depenencies via OPAM:
opam install webmachine
Getting Started
webmachine implements this decision diagram to determine how an HTTP
request should be handled. This includes validation, authentication, content
negotiation, and caching. A resource specifies the decision that should be made
at each node in the diagram by defining the appropriate method in a resource
subclass. The correspondence is suggested by the name of the method for now.
This will be better-documented in the future.
Examples
To build the examples in the examples/
subdirectory:
jbuilder build _build/default/examples/hello_lwt.exe
jbuilder build _build/default/examples/crud_lwt.exe
jbuilder build _build/default/examples/hello_async.exe
Development
To install development dependencies, pin the package from the root of the repository:
opam pin add -n webmachine .
opam install --deps-only webmachine
After this, you may install a development version of the library using the install command as usual.
For building and running the tests during development, you will need to install
the oUnit
package and run tests:
opam install oUnit
jbuilder runtest
License
BSD3, see LICENSE file for its text.