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diff --git a/_posts/2009-12-21-tatsumaki-or-how-to-write-a-nice-webapp-in-less-than-two-hours.md b/_posts/2009-12-21-tatsumaki-or-how-to-write-a-nice-webapp-in-less-than-two-hours.md deleted file mode 100644 index ae08a9b..0000000 --- a/_posts/2009-12-21-tatsumaki-or-how-to-write-a-nice-webapp-in-less-than-two-hours.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,102 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: post -summary: In which I write about Tatsumaki. -title: Tatsumaki, or how to write a nice webapp in less than two hours ---- - -Until today, I had a script named "lifestream.pl". This script was triggered via cron once every hour, to fetch various feeds from services I use (like <a href="http://github.com/">github</a>, <a href="http://identi.ca/">identi.ca</a>, ...) and to process the result through a template and dump the result in a HTML file. - -Today I was reading <a href="http://github.com/miyagawa/Tatsumaki">Tatsumaki's code</a> and some examples (<a href="http://github.com/gugod/Social">Social</a> and <a href="http://github.com/miyagawa/Subfeedr">Subfeedr</a>). Tatsumaki is a "port" <a href="http://www.tornadoweb.org/">tornado</a> (a non blocking server in Python), based on Plack and AnyEvent. I though that using this to replace my old lifestream script would be a good way to test it. Two hours later I have a complete webapp that works (and the code is available <a href="http://git.lumberjaph.net/p5-lifestream.git/">here</a>). - -The code is really simple: first, I define an handler for my HTTP request. As I have only one things to do (display entries), the handler is really simple: - -{% highlight perl %} -package Lifestream::Handler; -use Moose; -extends 'Tatsumaki::Handler'; - -sub get { - my $self = shift; - my %params = %{$self->request->params}; - $self->render( - 'lifestream.html', - { memes => $self->application->memes($params{page}), - services => $self->application->services - } - ); -} -1; -{% endhighlight %} - -For all the get request, 2 methods are called : <strong>memes</strong> and <strong>services</strong>. The <strong>memes</strong> get a list of memes to display on the page. The services get the list of the various services I use (to display them on a sidebar). - -Now, as I don't want to have anymore my lifestream.pl script in cron, I will let Tatsumaki do the polling. For this, I add a service to my app, which is just a worker. - -{% highlight perl %} -package Lifestream::Worker; -use Moose; -extends 'Tatsumaki::Service'; -use Tatsumaki::HTTPClient; - -sub start { - my $self = shift; - my $t; - $t = AE::timer 0, 1800, sub { - scalar $t; - $self->fetch_feeds; - }; -} - -sub fetch_feeds { - my ($self, $url) = @_; - Tatsumaki::HTTPClient->new->get( - $url, - sub { - #do the fetch and parsing stuff - } - ); -} -{% endhighlight %} - -From now, every 60 minutes, feeds will be checked. Tatsumaki::HTTPClient is a HTTP client based on AnyEvent::HTTP. - -Let's write the app now - -{% highlight perl %} -package Lifestream; - -use Moose; -extends "Tatsumaki::Application"; - -use Lifestream::Handler; -use Lifestream::Worker; - -sub app { - my ($class, %args) = @_; - my $self = $class->new(['/' => 'Lifestream::Handler',]); - $self->config($args{config}); - $self->add_service(Lifestream::Worker->new(config => $self->config)); - $self; -} - -sub memes { -} - -sub services { -} -{% endhighlight %} - -The <strong>memes</strong> and <strong>services</strong> method called from the handler are defined here. In the app method, I "attch" the "/" path to the handler, and I add the service. - -and to launch the app - -{% highlight perl %} -my $app = Lifestream->app(config => LoadFile($config)); -require Tatsumaki::Server; -Tatsumaki::Server->new( - port => 9999, - host => 0, -)->run($app); -{% endhighlight %} - -And that's it, I now have a nice webapp, with something like only 200 LOC. I will keep playing with <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/miyagawa/tatsumaki">Tatsumaki</a> as I have more ideas (and probably subfeedr too). Thanks to <a href="http://bulknews.typepad.com/">miyagawa</a> for all this code. |
