Mojo::Server

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Updated: 2018-11-28
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NAME

Mojo::Server - HTTP/WebSocket server base class

SYNOPSIS

  package Mojo::Server::MyServer;
  use Mojo::Base 'Mojo::Server';

  sub run {
    my $self = shift;

    # Get a transaction
    my $tx = $self->build_tx;

    # Emit "request" event
    $self->emit(request => $tx);
  }

DESCRIPTION

Mojo::Server is an abstract base class for HTTP/WebSocket servers and server interfaces, like Mojo::Server::CGI, Mojo::Server::Daemon, Mojo::Server::Hypnotoad, Mojo::Server::Morbo, Mojo::Server::Prefork and Mojo::Server::PSGI.

EVENTS

Mojo::Server inherits all events from Mojo::EventEmitter and can emit the following new ones.

request

  $server->on(request => sub {
    my ($server, $tx) = @_;
    ...
  });

Emitted when a request is ready and needs to be handled.

  $server->on(request => sub {
    my ($server, $tx) = @_;
    $tx->res->code(200);
    $tx->res->headers->content_type('text/plain');
    $tx->res->body('Hello World!');
    $tx->resume;
  });

ATTRIBUTES

Mojo::Server implements the following attributes.

app

  my $app = $server->app;
  $server = $server->app(MojoSubclass->new);

Application this server handles, defaults to a Mojo::HelloWorld object.

reverse_proxy

  my $bool = $server->reverse_proxy;
  $server  = $server->reverse_proxy($bool);

This server operates behind a reverse proxy, defaults to the value of the "MOJO_REVERSE_PROXY" environment variable.

METHODS

Mojo::Server inherits all methods from Mojo::EventEmitter and implements the following new ones.

build_app

  my $app = $server->build_app('MyApp');
  my $app = $server->build_app('MyApp', log => Mojo::Log->new);
  my $app = $server->build_app('MyApp', {log => Mojo::Log->new});

Build application from class and assign it to ``app''.

build_tx

  my $tx = $server->build_tx;

Let application build a transaction.

daemonize

  $server->daemonize;

Daemonize server process.

load_app

  my $app = $server->load_app('/home/sri/myapp.pl');

Load application from script and assign it to ``app''.

  say Mojo::Server->new->load_app('./myapp.pl')->home;

new

  my $server = Mojo::Server->new;
  my $server = Mojo::Server->new(reverse_proxy => 1);
  my $server = Mojo::Server->new({reverse_proxy => 1});

Construct a new Mojo::Server object and subscribe to ``request'' event with default request handling.

run

  $server->run;

Run server. Meant to be overloaded in a subclass.