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call-with-query

A reasonable abstraction around e.g. fastcgi server-invocations: ports, environment, query

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  2. call-with-query
    1. Motivation
    2. Documentation
      1. display-content-type-&c.
      2. display-status-&c.
      3. query-client-any
      4. query-client-all
      5. query-server-any
      6. query-server-all
      7. query-any
      8. query-all
      9. call-with-dynamic-fastcgi-query
        1. Examples
      10. call-with-cgi-query
        1. Examples
    3. About this egg
      1. Author
      2. Repository
      3. License
      4. Dependencies
      5. Versions
      6. Colophon

Motivation

Using FastCGI is relatively pain-in-the-ass; take this contrived example, for instance, where we'd like create a server that exports a database (given as a post-parameter) as JSON:

(fcgi-dynamic-server-accept-loop
  (lambda (in out err env)
    (out "Content-type: application/json\r\n\r\n")
    (let* ((post-data (form-urldecode (fcgi-get-post-data in env)))
           (database
             (alist-ref/default post-data 'database (default-database))))
      (out (with-output-to-string
             (lambda () (json-write (database->json database))))))))

With call-with-query, however, we can do something like this:

(call-with-dynamic-fastcgi-query
  (lambda (query)
    (display-content-type-&c. 'json)
    (json-write
      (database->json (query-any query 'database (default-database))))))

Anything written to stdout appears in the request; anything to stderr goes in the server logs; while display-content-type-&c. takes care of the HTTP headers.

Documentation

display-content-type-&c.

[procedure] (display-content-type-&c.) → unspecified
[procedure] (display-content-type-&c. content-type-&c.) → unspecified

Write the content-type headers and e.g. XML prolog (if necessary); do not, however, write the status (see display-status and display-status-&c.).

Valid content-types are xhtml, html, text, json, png, xml.

content-type-&c.
The content-type-and--prolog, e.g. xhtml
(define display-content-type-&c.
  (case-lambda
    (() (display-content-type-&c. (default-content-type-&c.)))
    ((content-type-&c.) ((alist-ref content-type-&cs. content-type-&c.)))))

display-status-&c.

[procedure] (display-status-&c.) → unspecified
[procedure] (display-status-&c. status) → unspecified
[procedure] (display-status-&c. status content-type . rest) → unspecified

Display the status, content-type and prolog.

status
Status code, e.g. status-no-content or 204
content-type
Content-type, e.g. xhtml
rest
Optional arguments to the status, e.g. location in the case of 300
(define display-status-&c.
  (case-lambda
    (() (display-status-&c. (default-status)))
    ((status) (display-status-&c. status (default-content-type)))
    ((status content-type . rest)
     (display-status status)
     (apply (alist-ref/default statuses status void) rest)
     (display-content-type-&c. content-type))))

query-client-any

[procedure] (query-client-any query key) → string
[procedure] (query-client-any query key default) → string

Return the first client parameter (e.g. {get,post,cookie}-parameter) corresponding to the key.

key
The key whose value to extract
default
A default value if key doesn't exist
(define query-client-any
  (case-lambda
    ((query key) (alist-any (query-client query) key))
    ((query key default) (alist-any (query-client query) key default))))

query-client-all

[procedure] (query-client-all query key) → list
[procedure] (query-client-all query key default) → list

Return a list of client parameters (e.g. {get,post,cookie}-parameters) corresponding to the key.

key
The key whose value to extract
default
A default value if key doesn't exist
(define query-client-all
  (case-lambda
    ((query key) (alist-all (query-client query) key))
    ((query key default) (alist-all (query-client query) key default))))

query-server-any

[procedure] (query-server-any query key) → string
[procedure] (query-server-any query key default) → string

Return the first client parameter (e.g. environment-variable) corresponding to the key.

key
The key whose value to extract
default
A default value if key doesn't exist
(define query-server-any
  (case-lambda
    ((query key) (alist-any (query-server query) key))
    ((query key default) (alist-any (query-server query) key default))))

query-server-all

[procedure] (query-server-all query key) → list
[procedure] (query-server-all query key default) → list

Return a list of client parameters (e.g. environment-variables) corresponding to the key.

key
The key whose value to extract
default
A default value if key doesn't exist
(define query-server-all
  (case-lambda
    ((query key) (alist-all (query-server query) key))
    ((query key default) (alist-all (query-server query) key default))))

query-any

[procedure] (query-any query key) → string
[procedure] (query-any query key default) → string

Return the first client or server parameter (see above) corresponding to the key.

key
The key whose value to extract
default
A default value if key doesn't exist
(define query-any
  (case-lambda
    ((query key) (alist-any (query-promiscuous query) key))
    ((query key default) (alist-any (query-promiscuous query) key default))))

query-all

[procedure] (query-all query key) → list
[procedure] (query-all query key default) → list

Return a list of client or server parameters (see above) corresponding to the key.

key
The key whose value to extract
default
A default value if key doesn't exist
(define query-all
  (case-lambda
    ((query key) (alist-all (query-promiscuous query) key))
    ((query key default) (alist-all (query-promiscuous query) key default))))

call-with-dynamic-fastcgi-query

[procedure] (call-with-dynamic-fastcgi-query quaerendum) → unspecified

Start a dynamic FastCGI server where output is bound to stdout; and where a monadic function taking a query-record is called for every request.

quaerendum
A monadic function receiving a query parameter
(define (call-with-dynamic-fastcgi-query quaerendum)
  (fcgi-dynamic-server-accept-loop
    (lambda (in out err env)
      (let ((environment
              (map (match-lambda
                     ((key . value) (cons (env-string->symbol key) value)))
                   (env)))
            (cookies
              (form-urldecode
                (let ((cookies
                        (string-delete
                          char-set:whitespace
                          (env "HTTP_COOKIE" ""))))
                  (and (not (string-null? cookies)) cookies))))
            (cookies2
              (form-urldecode
                (let ((cookies
                        (string-delete
                          char-set:whitespace
                          (env "HTTP_COOKIE2" ""))))
                  (and (not (string-null? cookies)) cookies))))
            (post-data (form-urldecode (fcgi-get-post-data in env)))
            (query (form-urldecode
                     (let ((query (env "QUERY_STRING")))
                       (and (not (string-null? query)) query)))))
        (parameterize
          ((current-output-port
             (make-output-port (lambda (scribendum) (out scribendum)) void))
           (current-error-port
             (make-output-port (lambda (errandum) (err errandum)) void)))
          (quaerendum
            (make-query
              environment
              (append cookies cookies2 post-data query))))))))
Examples

An authorization server

(call-with-auth-db 
  (lambda (connection)
    (call-with-dynamic-fastcgi-query 
      (lambda (query)
        (let ((user (query-server-any query 'remote-user))
              (password (query-server-any query 'remote-passwd)))
          (let ((status
                 (if (valid? connection user password "physician")
                     status-ok
                     status-unauthorized)))
            (display-status-&c. status)))))))

call-with-cgi-query

[procedure] (call-with-cgi-query quaerendum) → unspecified

Gather parameters (including post-variables, query-variables, cookies, server-variables) into an association-list when called as a CGI program.

quaerendum
A monadic function receiving a query parameter
(define (call-with-cgi-query quaerendum)
  (let ((environment
          (alist-map
            (lambda (key value) (cons (env-string->symbol key) value))
            (get-environment-variables))))
    (quaerendum
      (make-query
        environment
        (remove-null-artifacts
          (append
            (form-urldecode-environment environment 'http-cookie)
            (form-urldecode-environment environment 'http-cookie2)
            (form-urldecode-environment environment 'query-string)
            (form-urldecode-with-separator (read-all))))))))
Examples

Prints out the environment.

(call-with-cgi-query 
  (lambda (query) (display-content-type-&c. 'text) (display query)))

About this egg

Author

Peter Danenberg

Repository

https://github.com/klutometis/call-with-query

License

GPL-3

Dependencies

Versions
0.1
First release
0.2
Record-printer for queries
0.2.1
JSON and PNG
0.2.2
HTML5
0.2.3
Remove dependency on regex.
0.2.4
Fix irregex.
0.2.5
Add pdf.
0.2.6
Add XML.
0.2.7
Remove the dependency on setup-helper-cock.
0.2.8
Remove debug.
0.2.9
Add call-with-cgi-query.
0.2.10
Remove null-artifacts.
0.2.11
Use hahn.

Colophon

Documented by hahn.