[erlang-questions] Webmachine Binary Request Strings

[Andrew Berman]

There was talk on one of the mailing lists about using something like
SimpleBridge (https://github.com/nitrogen/simple_bridge) so that the use of
a web server could be independent of Webmachine's logic, which IMO is the
best solution.  I don't think anyone did anything about it, but for some
reason, SimpleBridge has Webmachine support, which doesn't make sense
logically to me since Webmachine is a toolkit and not a web server.

I use Webmachine and love what it does for me, but the code seems overly
complicated with a heavy reliance on Mochiweb and uses parameterized
modules (an unsupported feature of Erlang), so I would actually be more
inclined to start a new project which is influenced by Webmachine but
corrects all the issues with it and makes it a bit more flexible and modern
(would love for Webmachine to support PATCH for example and something like
Socket.IO).  I'd be happy to help out with such a project if anyone is
interested in starting one.

--Andrew

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Tristan Sloughter <
tristan.sloughter@REDACTED> wrote:

> Interesting. Sucks that webmachine is so tied to mochi and mochi so tied
> to lists, haha. But I'll give this a look.
>
> Tristan
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Magnus Klaar <magnus.klaar@REDACTED>wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Cowboy currently includes an experimental webmachine-like interface. The
>> first commit of this module should explain some of the key differences from
>> webmachine. If i remember the history of this module the intial estimate
>> for the time needed to decouple webmachine from mochiweb _and_ refactor
>> webmachine to support both binaries and lists everywhere was greater than
>> the time needed to just add the difference between the two to cowboy.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/extend/cowboy/commit/aab1587a4b3d8f0c3d92a2083227527d51109980
>>
>> If you're interested in a
>>
>> MVH Magnus
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Tristan Sloughter <
>> tristan.sloughter@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>> This may be better on a Webmachine questions list. But I thought I'd ask
>>> here first since it may be that someone working on one of the other Erlang
>>> web servers, besides Mochiweb, has worked on moving Webmachine to use that
>>> server.
>>>
>>> The reason I say that is, Webmachine currently relies on Mochiweb which
>>> passes lists instead of binary strings for requests. While the req_body of
>>> a request is given as a binary the path_info and query string is dealt with
>>> as lists. While I would think there could be a performance hit due to this
>>> my main reason to ask for alternatives is that dealing with JSON
>>> representations on the backend require converting the lists to binaries for
>>> processing every time.
>>>
>>> There has been https://github.com/mochi/mochiweb/pull/38 but its clear
>>> at the end of the discussion its not a change that will be happening to
>>> mochiweb anytime soon.
>>>
>>> So is there work on Webmachine backed by Cowboy or another Erlang web
>>> server?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tristan
>>>
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