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Loïc Hoguin 0dc063ab7d Improve handler interface and documentation This change simplifies a little more the sub protocols mechanism. Aliases have been removed. The renaming of loop handlers as long polling handlers has been reverted. Plain HTTP handlers now simply do their work in the init/2 callback. There is no specific code for them. Loop handlers now follow the same return value as Websocket, they use ok to continue and shutdown to stop. Terminate reasons for all handler types have been documented. The terminate callback is now appropriately called in all cases (or should be). Behaviors for all handler types have been moved in the module that implement them. This means that cowboy_handler replaces the cowboy_http_handler behavior, and similarly cowboy_loop replaces cowboy_loop_handler, cowboy_websocket replaces cowboy_websocket_handler. Finally cowboy_rest now has the start of a behavior in it and will have the full list of optional callbacks defined once Erlang 18.0 gets released. The guide has been reorganized and should be easier to follow.		2014-09-30 20:12:13 +03:00
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src	Improve handler interface and documentation	2014-09-30 20:12:13 +03:00
Makefile	Update to erlang.mk 1.0.0	2014-08-01 14:26:51 +02:00
README.md	Update erlang.mk and update paths to start the release	2014-06-30 10:14:05 +02:00
relx.config	Convert the REST hello world example to a release	2013-09-08 12:22:30 +02:00

README.md

REST hello world example

To try this example, you need GNU make and git in your PATH.

To build the example, run the following command:

$ make

To start the release in the foreground:

$ ./_rel/rest_hello_world_example/bin/rest_hello_world_example console

Then point your browser at http://localhost:8080.

Example output

Request HTML:

$ curl -i http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:15:52 GMT
content-length: 136
content-type: text/html
vary: Accept

<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>REST Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>REST Hello World as HTML!</p>
</body>
</html>

Request JSON:

$ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:16:46 GMT
content-length: 24
content-type: application/json
vary: Accept

{"rest": "Hello World!"}

Request plain text:

$ curl -i -H "Accept: text/plain" http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:18:35 GMT
content-length: 25
content-type: text/plain
vary: Accept

REST Hello World as text!

Request a non acceptable content-type:

$ curl -i -H "Accept: text/css" http://localhost:8080
HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
connection: keep-alive
server: Cowboy
date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:18:51 GMT
content-length: 0