Wai-Routes

This package provides typesafe URLs for Wai applications.

Features:

• Automatic generation of Route boilerplate using TH
• Easy Nested Routes
• Subsites
• General purpose Route Attributes/Annotations
• Sitewide Master datatype which is passed to all handlers and can be used for persistent data (like DB connections)
• RouteM monad that makes it easy to compose an application with multiple routes and middleware.
• HandlerM monad that makes it easy to build a Handler with access to Request data and Master datatype
• Handlers can abort processing and pass control to the next application in the wai stack

The aim is to provide a similar level of typesafe URL functionality to Wai applications as is available to Yesod applications.

Planned Features

The following features are planned for later releases -

• Development mode
• Keter and Heroku support
• Scaffolding
• Better documentation
• Tests and code coverage

Performance

When it comes to performance, Wai-routes compares quite favorably with other Haskell web development micro frameworks.

See more details here - philopon/apiary-benchmark

Example Usage

The following builds a simple JSON service (using Aeson for JSON conversion)

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings, TypeFamilies #-}

import Network.Wai
import Network.Wai.Middleware.Routes

import Data.IORef

-- The Site Argument
data MyRoute = MyRoute (IORef DB)

-- Generate Routes
mkRoute MyRoute [parseRoutes|
/             UsersR         GET
/user/#Int    UserR:
  /              UserRootR   GET
  /delete        UserDeleteR POST
|]

-- Define Handlers
-- All Users Page
getUsersR :: Handler MyRoute
getUsersR (MyRoute dbref) request = ...
-- Single User Page
getUserRootR :: Int -> Handler MyRoute
getUserRootR userid = ...
-- Delete Single User
postUserDeleteR :: Int -> Handler MyRoute
postUserDeleteR userid = ...

-- Define Application using RouteM Monad
myApp = do
  db <- liftIO $ newIORef mydb
  route (MyRoute db)
  setDefaultAction $ staticApp $ defaultFileServerSettings "static"

-- Run the application
main :: IO ()
main = run 8080 (waiApp myApp)

Changelog

• 0.7.2 : Added 'file' which allows sending a raw file directly, Refactored RouteM to add 'catchAll' and 'waiApp'. No api breakage.
• 0.7.1 : Added 'showRouteQuery', renamed 'text' to 'plain', 'html' now accepts Text instead of ByteString
• 0.7.0 : Subsites support added
• 0.6.2 : Added 'maybeRoute' and 'routeAttrSet', to get information about the currently executing route
• 0.6.1 : Fixed cabal and travis files
• 0.6.0 : Removed dependency on yesod-routes. Updated code to compile with wai-3 and ghc-7.8, ghc-7.10
• 0.5.1 : Bumped dependency upper bounds to allow text 1.*
• 0.4.1 : showRoute now returns "/" instead of ""
• 0.4.0 : Wai 2 compatibility. Replaced 'liftResourceT' with 'lift'
• 0.3.4 : Added 'liftResourceT' to lift a ResourceT into HandlerM
• 0.3.3 : Better exports from the Network.Wai.Middleware.Routes module
• 0.3.2 : Added HandlerM Monad which makes it easier to build Handlers
• 0.3.1 : Removed internal 'App' synonym which only muddied the types. Added common content types for convenience.
• 0.3.0 : yesod-routes 1.2 compatibility. Abstracted request data. Created runNext which skips to the next app in the wai stack
• 0.5.0 : Added raw,text,html,json helpers. Update to wai-2.1.
• 0.2.4 : Put an upper bound on yesod-routes version as 1.2 breaks API compatibility
• 0.2.3 : Implemented a better showRoute function. Added blaze-builder as a dependency
• 0.2.2 : Fixed license information in hs and cabal files
• 0.2.1 : Changed license to MIT
• 0.2 : Updated functionality based on yesod-routes package
• 0.1 : Intial release