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NAME

Net::Async::HTTP::Server - serve HTTP with IO::Async

SYNOPSIS

 use Net::Async::HTTP::Server;
 use IO::Async::Loop;

 use HTTP::Response;

 my $loop = IO::Async::Loop->new();

 my $httpserver = Net::Async::HTTP::Server->new(
    on_request => sub {
       my $self = shift;
       my ( $req, $token ) = @_;

       my $response = HTTP::Response->new( 200 );
       $response->add_content( "Hello, world!\n" );
       $response->content_type( "text/plain" );

       $self->respond( $token, $response );
    },
 );

 $loop->add( $httpserver );

 $httpserver->listen(
    addr => { family => "inet6", socktype => "stream", port => 8080 },
    on_listen_error => sub { die "Cannot listen - $_[-1]\n" },
 );

 $loop->run;

DESCRIPTION

This module allows a program to respond asynchronously to HTTP requests, as part of a program based on IO::Async. An object in this class listens on a single port and invokes the on_request callback or subclass method whenever an HTTP request is received, allowing the program to respond to it.

EVENTS

on_request $req, $token

Invoked when a new HTTP request is received. It will be passed an HTTP::Request object and an opaque token used to respond. This token should be passed to the respond method.

METHODS

$server->respond( $token, $response )

Respond to the request earlier received with the given token, using the given HTTP::Response object.

TODO

  • Streaming/chunked content response API. Likely

     $self->respond_header( $token, $response );
     $self->respond_chunk( $token, $content ); ...
     $self->respond_eof( $token );
  • Consider how to do streaming request inbound

  • PSGI app container

  • Lots more testing

AUTHOR

Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>