actix-web/README.md

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Asynchronous web framework for [Actix](https://github.com/actix/actix).

* [API Documentation (Development)](http://actix.github.io/actix-web/actix_web/)
* [API Documentation (Releases)](https://docs.rs/actix-web/)
* Cargo package: [actix-http](https://crates.io/crates/actix-web)
* Minimum supported Rust version: 1.20 or later

---

Actix web is licensed under the [Apache-2.0 license](http://opensource.org/licenses/APACHE-2.0).

## Features

  * HTTP 1.1 and 1.0 support
  * Streaming and pipelining support
  * Keep-alive and slow requests support
  * [WebSockets support](https://actix.github.io/actix-web/actix_web/ws/index.html)
  * Configurable request routing
  * Multipart streams
  * Middlewares

## Usage

To use `actix-web`, add this to your `Cargo.toml`:

```toml
[dependencies]
actix-web = "0.1"
```

## Example

* [Basic](https://github.com/actix/actix-web/tree/master/examples/basic.rs)
* [Stateful](https://github.com/actix/actix-web/tree/master/examples/state.rs)
* [Mulitpart streams](https://github.com/actix/actix-web/tree/master/examples/multipart)
* [Simple websocket session](https://github.com/actix/actix-web/tree/master/examples/websocket.rs)
* [Tcp/Websocket chat](https://github.com/actix/actix-web/tree/master/examples/websocket-chat)


```rust
extern crate actix;
extern crate actix_web;
extern crate env_logger;

use actix::*;
use actix_web::*;


struct MyWebSocket;

impl Actor for MyWebSocket {
    type Context = HttpContext<Self>;
}

impl Route for MyWebSocket {
    type State = ();

    fn request(req: &mut HttpRequest,
               payload: Payload, ctx: &mut HttpContext<Self>) -> RouteResult<Self>
    {
        let resp = ws::handshake(req)?;
        ctx.start(resp);
        ctx.add_stream(ws::WsStream::new(payload));
        Reply::async(MyWebSocket)
    }
}

impl StreamHandler<ws::Message> for MyWebSocket {
    fn started(&mut self, ctx: &mut Self::Context) {
        println!("WebSocket session openned");
    }

    fn finished(&mut self, ctx: &mut Self::Context) {
        println!("WebSocket session closed");
    }
}

impl Handler<ws::Message> for MyWebSocket {
    fn handle(&mut self, msg: ws::Message, ctx: &mut HttpContext<Self>)
              -> Response<Self, ws::Message>
    {
        println!("WS: {:?}", msg);
        match msg {
            ws::Message::Ping(msg) => ws::WsWriter::pong(ctx, msg),
            ws::Message::Text(text) => ws::WsWriter::text(ctx, &text),
            ws::Message::Binary(bin) => ws::WsWriter::binary(ctx, bin),
            ws::Message::Closed | ws::Message::Error => {
                ctx.stop();
            }
            _ => (),
        }
        Self::empty()
    }
}

fn main() {
    ::std::env::set_var("RUST_LOG", "actix_web=info");
    let _ = env_logger::init();
    let sys = actix::System::new("ws-example");

    HttpServer::new(
        Application::default("/")
            // enable logger
            .middleware(Logger::new(None))
            // websocket route
            .resource("/ws/", |r| r.get::<MyWebSocket>())
            .route_handler("/", StaticFiles::new("examples/static/", true)))
        .serve::<_, ()>("127.0.0.1:8080").unwrap();

    println!("Started http server: 127.0.0.1:8080");
    let _ = sys.run();
}
```