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Cowboy does nothing by default.
To make Cowboy useful, you need to map URLs to Erlang modules that will
To make Cowboy useful, you need to map URIs to Erlang modules that will
handle the requests. This is called routing.
When Cowboy receives a request, it tries to match the requested host and
path to the resources given in the dispatch rules. If it matches, then
the associated Erlang code will be executed.
Routing rules are given per host. Cowboy will first match on the host,
and then try to find a matching path.
path to the configured routes. When there's a match, the route's
associated handler is executed.
Routes need to be compiled before they can be used by Cowboy.
The result of the compilation is the dispatch rules.
=== Structure
=== Syntax
The general structure for the routes is defined as follow.
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=== Compilation
The structure defined in this chapter needs to be compiled before it is
passed to Cowboy. This allows Cowboy to efficiently lookup the correct
handler to run instead of having to parse the routes repeatedly.
The routes must be compiled before Cowboy can use them. The compilation
step normalizes the routes to simplify the code and speed up the
execution, but the routes are still looked up one by one in the end.
Faster compilation strategies could be to compile the routes directly
to Erlang code, but would require heavier dependencies.
This can be done with a simple call to `cowboy_router:compile/1`.
To compile routes, just call the appropriate function:
[source,erlang]
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).
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Note that this function will return `{error, badarg}` if the structure
given is incorrect.
=== Live update
You can use the `cowboy:set_env/3` function for updating the dispatch
list used by routing. This will apply to all new connections accepted
by the listener.
by the listener:
[source,erlang]
cowboy:set_env(my_http_listener, dispatch, cowboy_router:compile(Dispatch)).
Note that you need to compile the routes before updating.
Note that you need to compile the routes again before updating.