http tools for zsh

TODO: document everything. see test suites for now

json encoding

usefull demo

uze json
my% user
getent passwd mc |
    IFS=: read user\[login] _ user\[{uid,gid,gecos,home,shell}]
json/encode user |
    jq .

gives you

{
  "gecos": "Marc Chantreux,,,",
  "login": "mc",
  "shell": "/bin/zsh",
  "uid": 1000,
  "gid": 1000,
  "home": "/home/mc"
}

also

uze json
json/@ zeus athena taz
json/% lastname Doe firstname John age 42 missing true

["zeus","athena","taz"]
{"lastname":"Doe","firstname":"John","age":42,"missing":true}

CGI

because of its very ephemeral nature (a fork by CGI request), CGI is the perfect choice for a server which serves a lot of services for few people (1000 pages/minute). examples: familly server or NGO intranets.

developement with busybox and tmux

see examples in eg/.

starting your devel environment is that simple

cd ~/document_root_for_my_web_project
mkdir cgi-bin
http/serve
new-script =zsh cgi-bin/hello

http/serve and ̀new-script are implemented like this

new-script () {
    l "#! $1" '' > $2
    chmod a+x $2
    ${EDITOR:-vi} $2
}

http/serve ()
    if (( $+TMUX )) {
        tmux new -s httpd \;\
            split-window -dl 5 busybox httpd -vvfp 2000
    } else {
        tmux split -dl 5 busybox httpd -vvfp 2000
    }