NAME

Web::API::Mapper - Web::API::Mapper is an API (Application Programming Interface) convergence class for mapping/dispatching API to web frameworks.

SYNOPSIS

package YourService;
use Any::Moose;

sub route { {
    post => [
        '/bar/(\d+)' => sub { my $args = shift;  return $1;  }
    ]
    get =>  [ 
        ....
    ]
} }

package main;

my $service = YourService->new;
my $serviceA = OtherService->new;
$service->connect( ... );

my $m = Web::API::Mapper->new
        ->mount( '/foo' => $service->route )
        ->mount( '/a' => $serviceA->route );

my $ret = $m->post->dispatch( '/foo/bar' , { ... args ... } );
my $ret = $m->get->dispatch(  '/foo/bar' );
my $ret = $m->dispatch( '/foo/bar' , { args ... } );

$m->post->mount( '/foo' , [ '/subpath/to' => sub {  ....  } ]);
$m->mount( '/fb' => {  post => [  ... ] , get => [  ... ] }  )->mount( ... );

To generate API routing table automatically, see test file t/auto-router.t:

#!/usr/bin/env perl use Test::More tests => 6; use Web::API::Mapper;

my $api = Test::API->new;
my $routes = Web::API::Mapper->auto_route( $api , { prefix => 'foo' } );

ok( $routes->{get} );
ok( $routes->{post} );
ok( $routes->{any} );

# The $routes will be:
# {
#     post => [ ],
#     get => [ ],
#     any => [
#         '/get/id' => sub { DUMMY }
#         '/get/id' => sub { DUMMY }
#     ]
# }

my $m = Web::API::Mapper->new( "/foo" => $routes );
ok( $m );
my $ret = $m->dispatch( '/foo/get/id' , { data => 'John' } );

is_deeply( $ret->{args} , { data => 'John' } );
is( ref($ret->{self}) , 'Test::API' );

package Test::API;

sub new { bless {} , shift; }

sub foo_get_id {
    my ($self,$args) = @_;
    return {  
        self => $self,
        args => $args,
    };
}

sub foo_set_id {

}

1;

DESCRIPTION

Web::API::Mapper is an API (Application Programming Interface) convergence class for mapping/dispatching API to web frameworks.

This module is for reducing class coupling of web services on web frameworks.

Web frameworks are always changing, and one day you will need to migrate your code to the latest web framework. If your code heavily depends on your framework, it's pretty hard to migrate and it takes time.

by using Web::API::Mapper you can simply seperate service application and framework. you can simply mount these api service like Twitter ... etc, and dispatch paths to these services.

Web::API::Mapper is using Path::Dispatcher for dispatching.

ROUTE SPEC

API Provider can provide a route hash reference for dispatching rules.

• post => [ '/path/to/(\d+)' => sub { } , ... ]

• get => [ '/path/to/(\d+)' => sub { } , ... ]

• fallback => sub { }

ACCESSORS

route

post

is a Web::API::Mapper::RuleSet object.

get

is a Web::API::Mapper::RuleSet object.

fallback

is a CodeRef, fallback handler.

FUNCTIONS

mount( String $base , HashRef $route )

dispatch( String $path , HashRef $args )

auto_route( Class|Object $api , HashRef $options )

Auto generate API routing table for object|class.

You can use prefix or regexp to filter methods.

underscores will be translated to slash /. for example, foo_get_id will be /get/id.

Options

• prefix => qq|prefix_|

Get methods by prefix, and strip the prefix.

• regexp => qr/.../

Filter methods by a regular expression pattern.

• type => post|get|any

Handler type, can be post, get and any.

EXAMPLE

package Twitter::API;

sub route { {
    post => [
        '/timeline/add/' => sub { my $args = shift;  .... },
        '/timeline/remove/' => sub { ... },
    ],
    get => [
        '/timeline/get/(\w+)' => sub {  my $args = shift;  .... return $1 },
    ],
} }

package main;

# This will add rule path to /twitter/timeline/add/  ... etc
my $m = Web::API::Mapper->new( '/twitter' => Twitter::API->route );
$m->mount(  '/basepath' , {  post => [  ... ] } );
$m->post->mount( '/basepath' , [  ...  ]  );
$m->dispatch( '/path/to' , { args ... } );

1;

For example, if you are in Dancer:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Dancer;
use JSON;

our $m = Web::API::Mapper->new
    ->mount( '/twitter' => Twitter::API->route )
    ->mount( '/basepath' , { post => [  ... ] } );

any '/api/*' => sub {
    return encode_json( $m->dispatch( $1 , params ) );
};

# request for '/api/twitter/timeline/add' to run!

dance;

And one day you want another applciation in Mojo:

use Mojolicious::Lite;
get '/api/*' => sub {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->render(  $m->dispatch( $1 , $self->params ) );
};
app->start;

TODO

• Provide service classes for mounting.

• Provide mounter for web frameworks.

AUTHOR

Cornelius & cornelius.howl at gmail.com ;

LICENSE

Perl