OpenResty - General-purpose web service platform for web applications
This document describes OpenResty 0.1.3 released on March 14, 2008.
This module implements the server-side OpenResty web service protocol. It provides scriptable and extensible web services for both server-side and client-side (pure AJAX) web applications.
Currently this module can serve as a public web interface to a distributive or desktop PostgreSQL database system. In particular, it provides roles, models, views, actions, captchas, the minisql language, and many more to the web users.
Note that OpenResty is not a web application framework like Jifty. Rather, it can serve as a component in many existing web application frameworks.
We're already running an instance of the OpenResty server on our Yahoo! China's production machines:
http://resty.eeeeworks.org/=/version
And there're several (pure-client-side) web sites alreadying taking advantage of the services:
http://blog.agentzh.org
http://www.yisou.com/opi/post.html
This library is still in pre-alpha stage and the API is still in flux. We're just following the "release early, releaes often" guideline. So please check back often ;)
This is a basic guideline for settting up an OpenResty server on your own machine. Someone has succeeded in setting up one on Windows XP using ActivePerl 5.8.8. The normal development environment is Linux though. If you have any particular question, feel free to ask us by sending an email to the authors.
Grab the openresty package and unpack it to some place, let's say it's openresty.
Enter the openresty directory, run "perl Makefile.PL" to check missing dependencies:
$ cd openresty $ perl Makefile.PL $ sudo make # This will install missing dependencies $ make test # run the test suite using the PgMocked backend
For the PostgreSQL database, you need to prepare a PostgreSQL account (e.g. "agentzh"); and you need to create an empty database (e.g., "test"), and you need to create a stored precedure language named "plpgsql" for that database, contact your PostgreSQL DBA for it or read the PostgreSQL manual.
Normally, the following commands are used:
$ createdb test $ createuser -P agnetzh $ createlang plpgsql test
Edit your etc/site_openresty.conf file, change the configure settings under [backend] section according to your previous settings. The default settings look like this:
[backend] recording=0 # You should change the line below to type=Pg or type=PgFarm type=PgMocked host=localhost user=agentzh password=agentzh database=test
Most of the time, you need to change type=PgMocked to type=Pg, as well as the last 3 lines (unless you're using exactly the same user, password, and database name). The default "PgMocked" backend is a mocked PostgreSQL database which is useful only for testing purposes.
type=PgMocked
type=Pg
Give read/write access to lighttpd's log file (optional):
$ chmod 777 /var/log/lighttpd/error.log $ chmod 777 /var/log/lighttpd
For the Pg backend, one needs to create the "anonymous" role in his database (like "test"):
$ createuser anonymouse test
Create a "tester" user account for our test suite in OpenResty (drop it if it already exists):
$ bin/openresty deluser tester $ bin/openresty adduser tester
Give a password (say, "password") to its Admin role. Update your etc/site_openresty.conf to reflect your these settings:
[test_suite] use_http=0 server=tester:password@localhost
Now you can already run the test suite without a lighttpd server (but with a true Pg backend):
$ make test
Sample lighttpd configuration:
# lighttpd.conf server.modules = ( "mod_fastcgi", ... ) fastcgi.server = ( "/=" => ( "openresty" => ( "socket" => "/tmp/openresty.socket", "check-local" => "disable", "bin-path" => "/PATH/TO/YOUR/bin/openresty", "bin-environment" => ( "OPENRESTY_URL_PREFIX" => "", "OPENRESTY_COMMAND" => "fastcgi", ), "min-procs" => 1, "max-procs" => 5, "max-load-per-proc" => 1, "idle-timeout" => 20, ) ) )
And also make sure the following line is commented out:
# url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )
HOW TO TEST ONE SPECIFIC TEST SUITE FILE
It's also possible to debug a simple .t file, for instance,
make t/01-sanity.t -f dev.mk
Or use the OPENRESTY_TEST_SERVER environment to test a remote OpenResty server, for example:
OPENRESTY_TEST_SERVER=teser:password@10.62.136.86 prove -Ilib -r t
where 10.62.136.86 is the IP (or hostname or URL) of your OpenResty server being tested.
To test the Pg cluster rather than the desktop Pg, update your etc/site_openresty.conf:
[backend] type=PgFarm
and also set other items in the same group if necessary.
bin/ directory is the where CGI entry openresty located doc/ directory containing OpenResty spec lib/OpenResty/ directory contain all the code needed to run OpenResty lib/OpenResty/OpenResty.pm contain the code stub for OpenResty protocol lib/OpenResty/Limits.pm are those hard limits located, we limit the number of different objects (model, row, view etc.) a user could create by default lib/OpenResty/Backend contain all the code to initialize OpenResty meta tables and code to access different database, for now we support Postgres stand alone database and PostgreSQL cluster lib/OpenResty/Backend/Pg.pm OpenResty PostgreSQL stand alone database access code lib/OpenResty/Backend/PgFarm.pm OpenResty PostgreSQL cluster database access code lib/OpenResty/Handler contain all handler methods OpenResty supported, these methods are moved from lib/OpenResty.pm due to code refactor; method name looks like HTTP_METHOD_some_sub_name. lib/SQL classes/methods to generate SQL query (in string form), use OO to encapsulate SQL query generation lib/SQL/Statement.pm base class lib/SQL/Select.pm class and methods to generate SELECT statement lib/SQL/Insert.pm class and methods to generate INSERT statement lib/SQL/Update.pm class and methods to generate UPDATE statement lib/MiniSQL/ directory conatining our mini-sql parser code, now only SELECT support t/ directory containing OpenResty test suite, use `make test' to run the test, read above on how to setup test environment
For the very latest version of this module, check out the source from the SVN repos below:
http://svn.openfoundry.org/openapi/trunk
There is anonymous access to all. If you'd like a commit bit, please let us know. :)
For the project's TODO list, please check out http://svn.openfoundry.org/openapi/trunk/TODO
There must be some serious bugs lurking somewhere given the current status of the implementation and test suite.
Please report bugs or send wish-list to http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=OpenResty.
<agentzh at yahoo.cn>
<yuting at yahoo.cn>
For a complete list of the contributors, please see http://svn.openfoundry.org/openapi/trunk/AUTHORS.
Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 by Yahoo! China EEEE Works, Alibaba Inc.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
OpenResty::Spec::REST, OpenResty::CheatSheet, WWW::OpenResty, WWW::OpenResty::Simple.
To install OpenResty, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm OpenResty
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install OpenResty
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.