Re: [libmicrohttpd] Presentation of Ulfius, a HTTP REST framework

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for the pointer.  We're using MHD a lot with libjansson in GNU
Taler and GNUnet, and there is some semi-generic logic in those projects
that I'd love to eventually make even more generic. For example, see:

http://www.git.taler.net/?p=mint.git;a=blob;f=src/mint/taler-mint-httpd_parsing.c;h=365202905c574286c420cb46fe3f7dd004b395fa;hb=HEAD

for logic to parse JSON data posted to the HTTPD.  As I said, it's not
quite abstract enough, but I do think there is a use for a generic
library to handle JSON data that works nicely with MHD. So if you want
to explore projects that combine JSON and MHD to be inspired for
features/requirements/ideas, you may want to checkout libjansson uses in
GNUnet and GNU Taler.

Happy hacking!

Christian

On 12/18/2015 04:41 PM, Nicolas Mora wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working with MHD for a little while now, mostly to create home
> automation applications that can work on small and embedded devices,
> like Raspberry Pi or Cubieboard.
> 
> At first, I used MHD with success, thanks to all the contributors. But I
> wanted to facilitate the use of web services, as I could see in other
> language's web application frameworks, such as Node JS Express, Revel in
> Go language, etc. So I wrote a framework on top of MHD.
> 
> The goal of Ulfius is to have a web application framework in C, simple
> but efficient, and based on MHD because I know it and I like it, and
> jansson for json objects manipulation.
> 
> The idea is to divide the web application into different url endpoints.
> When an endpoint is called by the user, the execution is delegated to a
> callback function.
> Also, since I work a lot with JSON inputs and outputs, I use json
> objects using jansson library, which is a small json library in C. The
> callback manipulates a request and a response objects.
> 
> The url of the project is https://github.com/babelouest/ulfius
> 
> I don't intend to replace MHD, far from it, but if anyone is interested
> to check it and make some feedbacks, that would be much appreciated.
> 
> Right now, it doesn't handle https connections, nor authentication, but
> it will may be available in the future.
> 
> I haven't tested it on other platforms than debian-based distributions,
> but I assume this might work where MHD and jansson are available.
> 
> /Nicolas
>

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