Actix web

Asynchronous web framework for Actix.

• API Documentation (Development)
• API Documentation (Releases)
• Cargo package: actix-http
• Minimum supported Rust version: 1.20 or later

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Actix web is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.

Features

• HTTP 1.1 and 1.0 support
• Streaming and pipelining support
• Keep-alive and slow requests support
• WebSockets support
• Configurable request routing
• Multipart streams
• Middlewares

Usage

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

[dependencies]
actix-web = "0.1"

Example

• Basic
• Stateful
• Mulitpart streams
• Simple websocket session
• Tcp/Websocket chat
• SockJS Server

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");
    Arbiter::system().send(msgs::SystemExit(0));
    let _ = sys.run();
}