support for static content / html middleware?

[ericjang]

Hello,

Do you plan on having support for serving html pages + other static content? Or is that something to be implemented in a separate Middleware Module?

[zachallaun]

Hi Eric,

This should be easily implemented as a piece of middleware, and as such probably belongs in Meddle.jl. It could be used from Morsel like so to serve assets in a folder called assets from the url prefix /static.

using Morsel
import Meddle: StaticAssetService

app = Morsel.app()

namespace(app, "/static", StaticAssetService("assets"))

start(app, PORT)

Pull requests welcome! (We'll probably get to this eventually anyways, though.)

[despeset]

This middleware already exists in Meddle actually! It is called FileServer - see https://github.com/hackerschool/Meddle.jl/blob/master/src/Meddle.jl#L132-L150

[zachallaun]

Well there you go! This goes to show how bad our public documentation is ;). We're working on fixing this!

[despeset]

That said, we should test this with Morsel as @zachallaun outlined above - reopening as an integration test / documentation issue.

[ericjang]

gr8, thanks very much

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Mendel [email protected]:

That said, we should test this with Morsel as Zach outlined above -
reopening as an integration test / documentation issue.

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[odow]

This is basically a follow up to the issue above (sorry if this is a dumb question):

When you create a Morsel app is it possible to specifiy additional middleware (such as FileServer) without modifying the hard coded stack in the start function of Morsel.jl (https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Morsel.jl/blob/master/src/Morsel.jl#L216)?

There is a function that seems like it does exactly this (https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Morsel.jl/blob/master/src/Morsel.jl#L99-L111) but I am not sure what the thunk function should be...