[Haskell-cafe] happstack file serving

[Gary Klindt]

Hey Antoine,

thank you for answering. Your strategy is quite similar to the one I 
prefer. I misunderstood the behaviour of serveDirectory. The problem 
with external javascript files is solved.
The other problem I had, was, that the argument 'msum' is a list, which 
has elements with the same type, so I needed a conversion from
m [Char]  to  m Response.
In Happstack.Server.Response there is a function, which actually does 
that: flatten:

module Main where

import Happstack.Server
import Control.Monad

main :: IO ()
main = simpleHTTP nullConf $
     msum [ flatten $ dir "ok" $ ok "jeahh!"
          , serveDirectory DisableBrowsing ["index.html"] "static" ]


Cheers

On 11/01/2011 03:58 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> A convention I use in my top-level handler is:
>
> simpleHTTP nullConf $
>          msum
>            [<dynamic content handler>
>            , serveDirectory DisableBrowsing [] "static"
>            ,<404 handler>
>            ]
>
> where 'serveDirectory' is a function that ships with happstack-server
> and serves up the contents of a directory which it is pointed at. I
> then keep all of my static CSS and Javascript files in the static
> directory.
>
> The second argument to 'serveDirectory' is used to specify the
> index-files to look for in a folder if the user browses to a static
> folder, so here you could specify "index.html" to have
> 'serveDirectory' look for files named "index.html" and serve them up
> when a top-level folder is requested.
>
> Antoine
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Gary Klindt<gary.klindt at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I want to have a web application using one 'index.html' file with ajax
>> requests and a happstack web server which response to server requests.
>> For that purpose I need to use some javascript libraries in my directory
>> tree. I tried:
>>
>> main = simpleHTTP nullConf $ msum [ serveFile (asContentType "text/html")
>> "index.html"
>>                                   , serveFile (asContentType
>> "text/javascript") "javascript/js.js" ]
>>
>>
>> The js.js - file will never be found in this way because after finding the
>> index.html,
>> the msum function stops (as described in the happstack crash course).
>> If I change the order, I can see the source of js.js.
>> I also tried leaving it.
>> In every case, inside index.html a function defined in js.js cannot be
>> called.
>> (naturally, I sourced the file inside index.html)
>>
>> Is it possible to obtain the effect of beeing able to call a function in an
>> external file
>> without jmacro?
>>
>>
>> I also tried:
>>
>> main = simpleHTTP nullConf $ msum [ dir "ok" $ ok "jeah!"
>>                                   , serveFile (asContentType "text/html")
>> "index.html"
>>
>> Couldn't match expected type `[Char]' with actual type `Response'
>>     Expected type: ServerPartT IO [Char]
>>       Actual type: ServerPartT IO Response
>>     In the return type of a call of `serveFile'
>>     In the expression:
>>       serveFile (asContentType "text/html") "index.html"
>>
>> The webserver should take requests, and if there is none (no dir, personal
>> convention), it should provide index.html.
>> The error is because msum needs the same input types. Is it possible to
>> transform one of these types to the other?
>>
>> It seems that my approach to the problem is not the right one, the one the
>> authors thought about while programming.
>> I wanted to have a clear seperation from logic (haskell) and interface
>> (javascript). Is it right that using a running
>> haskell webserver with the web application 'in it' is in general a faster
>> solution than using for example apache with
>> the fcgi module?
>>
>> Which approach would you prefer to realize such an ajax application?
>>
>> Greets Gary
>>
>>
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