NAME
    McBain::WithWebSocket - Load a McBain API as a WebSocket server

SYNOPSIS
            # write your API as you normally would, and create
            # a simple server script:

            #!/usr/bin/perl -w

            use warnings;
            use strict;
            use MyAPI -withWebSocket;

            MyAPI->start(80); # default port is 8080

            # if your API is object oriented
            MyAPI->new(%attrs)->start(80);

DESCRIPTION
    "McBain::WithWebSocket" turns your McBain API into a WebSocket
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket> server using
    Net::WebSocket::Server.

    The created server will be a JSON-in JSON-out service. When a client
    sends a message to the server, it is expected to be a JSON string, which
    will be converted into a hash-ref and serve as the payload for the API.
    The payload must have a "path" key, which holds the complete path of the
    route/method to invoke (for example, "GET:/math/sum"). The results from
    the API will be formatted into JSON as well and sent back to the client.

    Note that if an API method does not return a hash-ref, this runner
    module will automatically turn it into a hash-ref to ensure that
    conversion into JSON will be possible. The created hash-ref will have
    one key - holding the method's name, with whatever was returned from the
    method as its value. For example, if method "GET:/divide" in topic
    "/math" returns an integer (say 7), then the client will get the JSON "{
    "GET:/math/divide": 7 }". To avoid this behavior, make sure your API's
    methods return hash-refs.

  EXAMPLE CLIENT
    I haven't succeeded in creating a Perl WebSocket client using any of the
    related modules on CPAN. Documentation in this area seems to be
    extremely lacking. On the other hand, I created a very simply client
    with NodeJS in about two minutes. If you need to test your "McBain" API
    running as a WebSocket server, and have a similar problem, take a look
    at the "client.js" file in the examples directory of this distribution.

  SUPPORTED HTTP METHODS
    This runner support all methods natively supported by McBain. That is:
    "GET", "PUT", "POST", "DELETE" and "OPTIONS".

    The "OPTIONS" method is special. It returns a hash-ref of methods
    supported by a specific route, including description and parameter
    definitions, if any. See "OPTIONS-REQUESTS" in McBain for more
    information.

METHODS EXPORTED TO YOUR API
  start( [ $port ] )
    Starts the WebSocket server, listening on the supplied port. If $port is
    not provided, 8080 is used by default.

METHODS REQUIRED BY MCBAIN
  init( $target )
    Creates and exports the start() method for your API's root package.

  generate_env( $req )
    Receives the request JSON and creates "McBain"'s standard env hash-ref
    from it.

  generate_res( $env, $res )
    Converts the result from an API method in JSON. Read the discussion
    under "DESCRIPTION" for more info.

  handle_exception( $err )
    Formats exceptions into JSON.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
    No configuration files are required.

DEPENDENCIES
    "McBain::WithWebSocket" depends on the following CPAN modules:

    *   Carp

    *   JSON

    *   Net::WebSocket::Server

INCOMPATIBILITIES WITH OTHER MODULES
    None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    Please report any bugs or feature requests to
    "bug-McBain-WithWebSocket@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
    <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=McBain-WithWebSocket>.

SUPPORT
    You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

            perldoc McBain::WithWebSocket

    You can also look for information at:

    *   RT: CPAN's request tracker

        <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=McBain-WithWebSocket>

    *   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

        <http://annocpan.org/dist/McBain-WithWebSocket>

    *   CPAN Ratings

        <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/McBain-WithWebSocket>

    *   Search CPAN

        <http://search.cpan.org/dist/McBain-WithWebSocket/>

AUTHOR
    Ido Perlmuter <ido@ido50.net>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2014, Ido Perlmuter "ido@ido50.net".

    This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself, either version 5.8.1 or any later
    version. See perlartistic and perlgpl.

    The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
    with this module.

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