Webmachine 1.2

Justin Sheehy - Justin Sheehy - May 26, 2009

There are a few changes in webmachine-1.2 that deserve mention.

We simplified the API to the dispatcher module so that it can be used easily in a standalone fashion.  In cases where another application (such as CouchDB) wants to use Webmachine-style dispatching, it is now easy to just call webmachine_dispatcher:dispatch/2 and get a useful result without any of the rest of Webmachine running.  A trivial example:

1> webmachine_dispatcher:dispatch("/a",[{["a"],some_resource,[]}])
{some_resource,[],[],[],".",[]}

The other change that is most interesting from a feature point of view is that the request body is not read off the socket until the first time wrq:req_body/1 is called.  This means that a resource can (for example) return an error response code without having to wait for the body to be pulled off the wire first. 

There is also a change in the new_webmachine project creation script.  Your list of dispatch terms will now by default be in a separate file (“priv/dispatch.conf”) instead of directly in your application’s _sup file.

This version is identified with the “webmachine-1.2” mercurial tag,

In upcoming versions, we hope to add a few much-clamored-for features such as host-based dispatching and incremental request/response body reading and writing.

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