ApiScript
ApiScript is a declarative programming language for creating stateless Web APIs with ease. The syntax is built around HTTP verbs and paths and it allows very easily describing an API.
In ApiScript a function is basically an API endpoint, which is described by a HTTP verb, route and implmentation.
A simple hello world program looks like this:
GET / => "Hello World!";
The meaning of which is to expose the string content "Hello World!"
for all requests that match the GET / routing pattern.
Stateless by design
Being stateless simplfies API development and makes it API infinitely scalable. This allows a simple delcarative syntax where the implementation can be done using a series of pipes. This also makes it trivial to parallelize.
Basically each endpoint is implemented by a pipeline. The request is piped through operators which modify the response content.
GET /users => select users(id,name) | limit 10 | format json
Bultin ORM
State still needs to be stored somewhere for useful APIs, in ApiScripts's case state management is completely delegated to databases/external services.
Within the language is possible to form queries using the operators which will be translated to a query.
table users { // CREATE TABLE users (
id: pk int; // id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name: str; // name VARCHAR,
password: str; // password VARCHAR,
is_organisation_admin: bool; // is_organisation_admin BOOL,
is_database_admin: bool; // is_database_admin BOOL)
}
GET /users =>
// SELECT users.id, users.name, users.is_organisation_admin, users.is_database_admin, organisations.id, organisations.name
// FROM users INNER JOIN organisations ON users.organisation = organisations.id;
select users(id, name, is_organisation_admin, is_database_admin, organisation(id, name)) | format json;
Ready for Web (development)
Declare a few routes and get a web server up and running ready for development purposes in a few minutes.
GET / => "<a href='version'>version</a><br/><a href='hello'>hello</a>";
GET /hello => "Hello World!";
GET /version => "1.0";