http/REST support

[mcollina]

so, we need to support HTTP and REST to some extent.

What I think is:

var graftHttp = require('graft/http');
http.createServer(graftHttp);

// or with connect

connect.use(graftHttp);

This will create messages with these properties:

• req, the actual readable stream
• res, the actual writable stream
• headers
• statusChan, Readable channel that can be used to change the status code.

What do you think?

[AdrianRossouw]

I like the idea. It could be the basis of a pretty good migration path for wayfin/waif too.

it would need to have some semantics, like constructing a message with a path, or url.
It could be pretty easily configurable to publish all messages through a single end point,
or map to proper REST based on a through stream.

We could possibly use server sent events too somewhere, but eh.

I ran into a bunch of issues with request though, but i have recently had wreck recommended to me.

[ahdinosaur]

if you're not aware already: jshttp and pillarjs are module ecosystems that will be the underlying building blocks of the next release of express, so might be quite useful here.

[mcollina]

@ahdinosaur Definitely thanks! For now I'm looking to have a very thin HTTP/rest thing, hopefully with express/compatibility. Moreover you guys already wrote all those nice modules for http routing :).

[AdrianRossouw]

we have the graft-http project now