HTTP Plugin

Discover the HTTPPlugin. It allows you to expose an HTTP endpoint in Warp 10 and handle requests with WarpScript.

A new awesome feature comes with Warp 10 2.0: HTTP Plugin!

It allows to expose an HTTP endpoint in Warp 10 and handle requests with WarpScript.

Presentation

The main idea of the HTTP Plugin is to expose an HTTP endpoint in Warp 10 which handle requests with a WarpScript.

It handles any kind of HTTP request and put a "request" structure on the top of the stack which contains much useful information like the method, the path, the parameters and so on.

Configuration

First, you have to configure and activate the plugin in configuration files.

Activate HTTP plugin by uncommenting the following line in <path_to_warp10>/etc/conf.d/80--plugins.conf:

warp10.plugin.http = io.warp10.plugins.http.HTTPWarp10Plugin

Then configure the plugin in the dedicated file: <path_to_warp10>/etc/conf.d/80-http-plugin.conf:

// IP the HTTP plugin will listen on
http.host = ${standalone.host}

// Port the HTTP plugin will listen on
http.port = 9000

// Directory where spec files are located
http.dir = ${standalone.home}/http

In your Warp 10 installation, create a folder called http, ie: <path_to_warp10>/http

Restart Warp 10 in order to apply your changes.

First WarpScript

At first, begin with a simple example. Create a new file call <path_to_warp10>/http/test.mc2 and add the content below:

{
  // root path
  'path' '/test'

  // allow to get path info
  'prefix' true

  // true: parse payload of a POST url encoded request
  // false: to parse manually the payload
  'parsePayload' true

  //
  // actual executed code
  //
  'macro' <%
    // save the original request into a variable
    'request' STORE

    // build the HTTP response
    {
      'status' 200
      'body' $request ->JSON
      'headers'
      {
        'Content-Type' 'application/json'
      }
    }
  %>
}

Then, in a browser, navigate to http://localhost:9000/test/a/b/c?d=1&e=2&f=3&f=4

You may have to wait a bit before the script is loaded.

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It will return a JSON string containing your request information. You should have something like that:

{
  "headers": {
    "Accept": [
      "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8"
    ],
    "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": [
      "1"
    ],
    "Connection": [
      "keep-alive"
    ],
    "User-Agent": [
      "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36"
    ],
    "Host": [
      "localhost:9000"
    ],
    "Accept-Encoding": [
      "gzip, deflate, br"
    ],
    "Accept-Language": [
      "fr,de-LI;q=0.9,de;q=0.8,pt;q=0.7,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.5"
    ]
  },
  "method": "GET",
  "params": {
    "d": [
      "1"
    ],
    "e": [
      "2"
    ],
    "f": [
      "3",
      "4"
    ]
  },
  "pathinfo": "/a/b/c",
  "target": "/test/a/b/c"
}

Hello World

Now, we can create a bit more complicated script in order to build an "Hello World" HTML page generator. Create a new file call <path_to_warp10>/http/simple.hello.mc2 and add the content below:

{
  // root path
  'path' '/hello'

  // allow to get path info
  'prefix' true       
  
  // true: parse payload of a POST url encoded request
  // false: to parse manually the payload
  'parsePayload' true 

  //
  // actual executed code
  //
  'macro' <%
    // save the original request into a variable
    'request' STORE

    // retrieve the path info (after /hello)
    $request 'pathinfo' GET

    // extract each parts of the path info
    '/' SPLIT 'res' STORE

    // evince the first '/'
    $res 0 REMOVE DROP 'res' STORE

    // define an HTML template
    <'
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hello</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello {{name}}!</h1>
  </body>
</html>
    '>

    // interpolate template's vars
    { 'name' $res 0 GET } TEMPLATE

    // save the result into a variable
    'body' STORE

    // build the HTTP response
    {
      'status' 200
      'body' $body
      'headers' { 'Content-Type' 'text/html' }
    }
  %>
}

Used WarpScript functions : STORE, GET, TEMPLATE, SUBLIST, SIZE, map creation

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Then navigate to http://localhost:9000/hello/world

Going further

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