transformator

transformator is a event-based server for compiling jade-lang and various other languages.

Supported languages and filters

transformator uses jade, minify and transformers. transformers is a wrapper library for many languages.

How it works

transformator creates a socket (tcp or unix domain) and listens for requests. The protocol is very simple: for each request a connection must be made. Any request is a fixed-length CBOR array with three elements: name of the engine to be used, input string and a optional object containing data. The third element is only relevant for jade.

transformator then returns a CBOR hash object either with a single key result containing the resulting output string or a single key error containing an error message. The connection will be immediately closed.

How to use

transformator comes as a command-line tool called transformator. It accepts three forms of arguments:

• <port-number>

  Bind the socket to localhost and listen at specifed port

• <bind-address> <port-number>

  Bind the socket to specified address/hostname

• <path/to/unix/domain/socket>

  Do not use TCP/IP but unix domain socket

Client libraries

• Perl

  Net::NodeTransformator