Overview
WSAPI is an API that abstracts the web server from Lua web applications. By coding against WSAPI your application can run on any of the supported servers and interfaces (currently CGI, FastCGI and Xavante, on Windows and UNIX-based systems).
WSAPI provides a set of helper libraries that help with request processing and output buffering. You can also write applications that act as filters that provide some kind of service to other applications, such as authentication, file uploads, request isolation, or multiplexing.
WSAPI's main influence is Ruby's Rack framework, but it was also influenced by Python's WSGI (PEP 333). It's not a direct clone of either of them, though, and tries to follow standard Lua idioms.
WSAPI is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1
Status
Current version is 1.2. It was developed for Lua 5.1.
Download
You can get WSAPI using LuaRocks:
luarocks install wsapi-xavante
You can also get an installer script that installs Lua+LuaRocks+WSAPI here. See the manual for installation instructions.
Latest Sources and Bug Tracker
WSAPI sources and bug tracker are available at its Github page.
History
WSAPI 1.2 [27/Oct/2009]
- Adds time-based collection of Lua states to FCGI and Xavante launchers
- Adds "wsapi" laucher script, to start a Xavante WSAPI server
- Fixed "undefined media type" error
- Added is_empty utility function to check if a string is nil or ''
- Fixed bug with empty bodies in wsapi.xavante, and added full http status codes to responses
- Changing order of evaluating PATH_TRANSLATED and SCRIPT_FILENAME, to make non-wrapped launchers work in OSX Apache
- Reload support for load_isolated_launcher
WSAPI 1.1 [04/Feb/2009]
- Adds options table to wsapi.request.new, *delay_post* option delays POST processing until req:parsepostdata() is called
- Moves call to lfs.setmode from wsapi.common to wsapi.cgi
- Adds wsapi.util.make_rewindable(wsapi_env) method - wraps wsapi_env in a new environment that lets you process the POST data more than once.
- Correctly handles PATH_TRANSLATED and SCRIPT_FILENAME in case the web server gets creative
- Statically links the FastCGI version on Windows
WSAPI 1.0 [18/May/2008]
- First public version.
- Includes CGI, FastCGI and Xavante WSAPI connectors.
Credits
WSAPI was designed and developed by Fabio Mascarenhas and André Carregal, and is maintained by Fabio Mascarenhas.
Contact Us
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