Cytoplasm/include/Cytoplasm/HttpRouter.h
Jordan Bancino 461357b526 Move headers from src/include to include/Cytoplasm.
This makes it easier to build Cytoplasm as a component of another
program (for example, Telodendria), or as a standalone system library.
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2022-2024 Jordan Bancino <@jordan:bancino.net>
*
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* obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files
* (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,
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*
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*
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*/
#ifndef CYTOPLASM_HTTPROUTER_H
#define CYTOPLASM_HTTPROUTER_H
/***
* @Nm HttpRouter
* @Nd Simple HTTP request router with regular expression support.
* @Dd April 29 2023
* @Xr HttpServer Http
*
* .Nm
* provides a simple mechanism for assigning functions to an HTTP
* request path. It is a simple tree data structure that parses the
* registered request paths and maps functions onto each part of the
* path. Then, requests can be easily routed to their appropriate
* handler functions.
*/
#include "Array.h"
/**
* The router structure is opaque and thus managed entirely by the
* functions defined in this API.
*/
typedef struct HttpRouter HttpRouter;
/**
* A function written to handle an HTTP request takes an array
* consisting of the matched path parts in the order they appear in
* the path, and a pointer to caller-provided arguments, if any.
* It returns a pointer that the caller is assumed to know how to
* handle.
*/
typedef void *(HttpRouteFunc) (Array *, void *);
/**
* Create a new empty routing tree.
*/
extern HttpRouter * HttpRouterCreate(void);
/**
* Free all the memory associated with the given routing tree.
*/
extern void HttpRouterFree(HttpRouter *);
/**
* Register the specified route function to be executed upon requests
* for the specified HTTP path. The path is parsed by splitting at
* each path separator. Each part of the path is a regular expression
* that matches the entire path part. A regular expression cannot
* match more than one path part. This allows for paths like
* .Pa /some/path/(.*)/parts
* to work as one would expect.
*/
extern bool HttpRouterAdd(HttpRouter *, char *, HttpRouteFunc *);
/**
* Route the specified request path using the specified routing
* tree. This function will parse the path and match it to the
* appropriate route handler function. The return value is a boolean
* value that indicates whether or not an appropriate route function
* was found. If an appropriate function was found, then the void
* pointer is passed to it as arguments that it is expected to know
* how to handle, and the pointer to a void pointer is where the
* route function's response will be placed.
*/
extern bool HttpRouterRoute(HttpRouter *, char *, void *, void **);
#endif /* CYTOPLASM_HTTPROUTER_H */