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REST in peace.
https://github.com/meh/urna

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REST in peace.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/meh/urna
Owner: meh
Created: 2013-07-01T18:25:42.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2017-05-16T02:24:33.000Z (about 7 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-02-26T06:01:35.539Z (4 months ago)
Language: Elixir
Size: 57.6 KB
Stars: 95
Watchers: 7
Forks: 5
Open Issues: 1
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md

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README

Urna - REST in peace
====================
*Urna* is a simple DSL around [cauldron](https://github.com/meh/cauldron) to
implement REST services.

Basics
------
*Urna* tries to follow the REST style as closely as possible, there are
namespaces and resources, and standard requests to these resources will receive
proper answers.

It includes `OPTIONS` requests being properly processed, requests on non-existent
resources being answered with `404` and verbs not implemented for the resource being
answered with a `405`.

```elixir
defmodule Example do
use Urna

# namespace is used to define an additional path to access the resource, in
# this case /foo/.
namespace :foo do
# resource is used to, you guessed it, define a resource, since we're in
# the :foo namespace it will be accessible at /foo/bar.
resource :bar do
# A get without a parameter responds to a GET request to the resource, in
# this case /foo/bar.
#
# The result of the block is automatically converted to an accepted
# content type extracted from the Accept header.
get do
42
end

# A get with a parameter responds to a GET request to the resource with
# an additional value, in this case /foo/bar/:id.
get id do
id
end

# A post without a parameter, alike get, responds to a POST request to
# the resource, again in this case /foo/bar.
#
# You can access the decoded content in the params variable, the decoding
# is done based on the Content-Type header assumed there's an available
# decoder for that type.
post do
param("id")
end

# Other common verbs are available: head, get, post, put, delete.
#
# If you want you can define your own verbs too, instead of using the
# available ones you can use the verb function.
#
# In this case it will respond to a HUE request on /foo/bar.
verb "HUE" do
"huehuehuehue"
end
end
end
end
```

Replying to or failing the request
----------------------------------
Sometimes you want to answer with a failure or a success with a specific
response code and text.

To do this you can use the `reply` and `fail` functions. Both functions take as
first parameter the error code, unless a text parameter is given it will use
the standard text.

If a result is also given, it's expected as first parameter.

```elixir
defmodule Example do
use Urna

resource :foo do
# I'm a tea pot.
get do
fail 418
end
end

resource :bar do
# Here you could do something with the parameters and write a row to a
# table, so you'd want to answer to the request with a 201 (Created)
# response, on top with the newly created row.
post do
Hey.create(params()) |> reply 201
end
end
end
```

Verb parameter conversion
-------------------------
*Urna* also supports converting the verb parameter to an `integer` or `float`,
for more complex conversion you'll have to deal it yourself.

```elixir
defmodule Example do
use Urna

resource :baz do
get id, as: Integer do

end
end
end
```

Accessing various variables
---------------------------
On top of `params` there are other useful variables you can access.

* `headers` contains the headers of the request.
* `uri` is the `URI.Info` of the request.
* `query` is the decoded query part of the uri.

Adapters
--------
*Urna* supports various adapters and it's easy to extend them as well.

Adapters are used to deal with encoding and decoding based on the value of
`Accept` and `Content-Type` headers.

The ones provided out of the box are an `application/json` adapter based on
[jazz](https://github.com/meh/jazz) and an `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`
adapter which uses the standard `URI.decode_query` function.

```elixir
defmodule Example do
use Urna, adapters: [Urna.JSON, Urna.Form]

resource :foo do
get do
[foo: :bar]
end
end
end
```

CORS
----
*Urna* supports CORS out of the box, just pass what to allow on `use Urna` and
it will handle the various access control headers automatically.

```elixir
defmodule API do
use Urna, allow: [methods: true, headers: true, credentials: true]
end
```

This example will allow all methods, headers and HTTP credentials, check the
documentation for more information.

Deploying on Heroku
-------------------

Give an app (mix is required):

```elixir
defmodule TestApp do
use Urna

resource "", do: "hello world!"
end
```

Create an app with the elixir buildpack:

heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/HashNuke/heroku-buildpack-elixir.git

Add a `Procfile` with the following line:

web: mix run -e "{:ok,_} = Urna.start TestApp, port: ${PORT:-3000}" --no-halt

Push the app to deploy it:

git push heroku master