Since version 0.19.0, Opium uses httpaf. The last version that used Cohttp can be found at https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium/tree/0.18.0
Sinatra like web toolkit for OCaml based on httpaf & lwt
Opium should be very small and easily learnable. A programmer should be instantly productive when starting out.
Opium should be extensible using independently developed plugins. This is a Rack inspired mechanism borrowed from Ruby. The middleware mechanism in Opium is called Rock
.
The latest stable version is available on opam
$ opam pin add rock.~dev https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium.git
$ opam pin add opium.~dev https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium.git
For the API documentation:
odig
: odig doc opium
.The following tutorials walk through various usecases of Opium:
For examples of idiomatic usage, see the ./example directory and the simple examples below.
Assuming the necessary dependencies are installed, $ dune build @example
will compile all examples. The binaries are located in _build/default/example/
.
You can execute these binaries directly, though in the examples below we use dune exec
to run them.
Here's a simple hello world example to get your feet wet:
$ cat hello_world.ml
open Opium module Person = struct type t = { name : string ; age : int } let yojson_of_t t = `Assoc [ "name", `String t.name; "age", `Int t.age ] let t_of_yojson yojson = match yojson with | `Assoc [ ("name", `String name); ("age", `Int age) ] -> { name; age } | _ -> failwith "invalid person json" ;; end let print_person_handler req = let name = Router.param req "name" in let age = Router.param req "age" |> int_of_string in let person = { Person.name; age } |> Person.yojson_of_t in Lwt.return (Response.of_json person) ;; let update_person_handler req = let open Lwt.Syntax in let+ json = Request.to_json_exn req in let person = Person.t_of_yojson json in Logs.info (fun m -> m "Received person: %s" person.Person.name); Response.of_json (`Assoc [ "message", `String "Person saved" ]) ;; let streaming_handler req = let length = Body.length req.Request.body in let content = Body.to_stream req.Request.body in let body = Lwt_stream.map String.uppercase_ascii content in Response.make ~body:(Body.of_stream ?length body) () |> Lwt.return ;; let print_param_handler req = Printf.sprintf "Hello, %s\n" (Router.param req "name") |> Response.of_plain_text |> Lwt.return ;; let _ = App.empty |> App.post "/hello/stream" streaming_handler |> App.get "/hello/:name" print_param_handler |> App.get "/person/:name/:age" print_person_handler |> App.patch "/person" update_person_handler |> App.run_command ;;
compile and run with:
$ dune exec examples/hello_world.exe &
then make a request to be greeted with a JSON response
$ curl http://localhost:3000/person/john_doe/42 {"name":"john_doe","age":42}
The two fundamental building blocks of opium are:
Request.t -> Response.t Lwt.t
Rock.Handler.t -> Rock.Handler.t
Almost all of opium's functionality is assembled through various middleware. For example: debugging, routing, serving static files, etc. Creating middleware is usually the most natural way to extend an opium app.
Here's how you'd create a simple middleware turning away everyone's favourite browser.
open Opium module Reject_user_agent = struct let is_ua_msie = let re = Re.compile (Re.str "MSIE") in Re.execp re ;; let m = let filter handler req = match Request.header "user-agent" req with | Some ua when is_ua_msie ua -> Response.of_plain_text ~status:`Bad_request "Please upgrade your browser" |> Lwt.return | _ -> handler req in Rock.Middleware.create ~filter ~name:"Reject User-Agent" ;; end let index_handler _request = Response.of_plain_text "Hello World!" |> Lwt.return let _ = App.empty |> App.get "/" index_handler |> App.middleware Reject_user_agent.m |> App.cmd_name "Reject UA" |> App.run_command ;;
Compile with:
$ dune build example/simple_middleware/main.ml
Here we also use the ability of Opium to generate a cmdliner term to run your app. Run your executable with -h
to see the options that are available to you. For example:
# run in debug mode on port 9000 $ dune exec dune build example/simple_middleware/main.exe -- -p 9000 -d
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