HAHansW3510·Apr 23, 2022
For an interesting application, see how https://github.com/joaotavora/snooze#rationale maps generic functions to HTTP/REST.
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2 sources>we're using Ring[0] at the backend
>Ring is a Clojure web applications library inspired by Python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack.
We have had this on the Common Lisp world for years, see "Clack" and "Lack" -- two libs that work together and do exactly this.
> Take a look at e.g. Liberator docs[2] and tell me, where's a CL library for just that
If you want exactly a "Liberator" in Common Lisp, there has been a good one for 3 years on:
https://github.com/joaotavora/snooze
Note how Snooze uses Clack. Clack is almost a de-facto standard now.
To be honest, REST services can be done with a regular web development routing lib.
>Or, in a CL project we had to implement CORS handling ourselves, whereas in Clojure we get it for free
But it's only adding a few headers to your HTTP headers... Patching the response handler to add those is an easy task in CL (
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Clack already has the facilities to let you add middlewares into the response handler), does one really need a library for that?
I don't want to sound arrogant, but the complains seem a bit exaggerated.