Static Assets?

[Ben Scheirman]

Thinking of writing a middleware to serve up static assets (unless something already exists?), but I'm unsure how this plugs into Frank. Can you point me in the right direction?

[Ben Scheirman]

Though it did occur to me that this should be done by nginx anyway. Would still love to hear your response, just so I can learn how middleware works in general.

[Kyle Fuller]

I think this is ultimately blocked until NEP 2 is finalised, and implemented in Curassow. Otherwise it won't be possible to serve binary files.

Frank doesn't have support for middleware, I wasn't sure what the best way to go forward would be. It might make sense to not couple this to Frank itself, but instead just provide an interface to wrap a nest application.

Examples:

import Frank

let application: Frank.call
let middleware: RequestType -> ResponseType { request in
  if request... {
    // do some request pre-processing
  }

  if some case {
    return a new response
  }

  let response = application(request)
  if response.something {
    // post response processing
  }

  return response
}

serve(middleware)

There's a proof of concept middleware called Padlock.

[Ben Scheirman]

Got it. This makes sense. Thanks for writing this up.