// This is a contrived example intended to illustrate actix-web features. // *Imagine* that you have a process that involves 3 steps. The steps here // are dumb in that they do nothing other than call an // httpbin endpoint that returns the json that was posted to it. The intent // here is to illustrate how to chain these steps together as futures and return // a final result in a response. // // Actix-web features illustrated here include: // 1. handling json input param // 2. validating user-submitted parameters using the 'validator' crate // 2. actix-web client features: // - POSTing json body // 3. chaining futures into a single response used by an asynch endpoint // // There are 2 versions in this example, one that uses Boxed Futures and the // other that uses Impl Future, available since rustc v1.26. #[macro_use] extern crate validator_derive; #[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive; use std::collections::HashMap; use std::io; use actix_http::client; use actix_web::{web, App, Error, HttpMessage, HttpResponse, HttpServer}; use futures::future::{ok, Future}; use validator::Validate; #[derive(Debug, Validate, Deserialize, Serialize)] struct SomeData { #[validate(length(min = "1", max = "1000000"))] id: String, #[validate(length(min = "1", max = "100"))] name: String, } #[derive(Debug, Deserialize)] struct HttpBinResponse { args: HashMap, data: String, files: HashMap, form: HashMap, headers: HashMap, json: SomeData, origin: String, url: String, } // ----------------------------------------------------------------------- // v1 uses Boxed Futures, which were the only option prior to rustc v1.26 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------- /// post json to httpbin, get it back in the response body, return deserialized fn step_x_v1(data: SomeData) -> Box> { let mut connector = client::Connector::default().service(); Box::new( client::ClientRequest::post("https://httpbin.org/post") .json(data) .unwrap() .send(&mut connector) .map_err(Error::from) // <- convert SendRequestError to an Error .and_then(|mut resp| { resp.body() // <- this is MessageBody type, resolves to complete body .from_err() // <- convert PayloadError to an Error .and_then(|body| { let resp: HttpBinResponse = serde_json::from_slice(&body).unwrap(); ok(resp.json) }) }), ) } fn create_something_v1( some_data: web::Json, ) -> Box> { Box::new(step_x_v1(some_data.into_inner()).and_then(|some_data_2| { step_x_v1(some_data_2).and_then(|some_data_3| { step_x_v1(some_data_3).and_then(|d| { Ok(HttpResponse::Ok() .content_type("application/json") .body(serde_json::to_string(&d).unwrap()) .into()) }) }) })) } // --------------------------------------------------------------- // v2 uses impl Future, available as of rustc v1.26 // --------------------------------------------------------------- /// post json to httpbin, get it back in the response body, return deserialized fn step_x_v2(data: SomeData) -> impl Future { let mut connector = client::Connector::default().service(); client::ClientRequest::post("https://httpbin.org/post") .json(data) .unwrap() .send(&mut connector) .map_err(Error::from) // <- convert SendRequestError to an Error .and_then(|mut resp| { resp.body() // <- this is MessageBody type, resolves to complete body .from_err() // <- convert PayloadError to an Error .and_then(|body| { let resp: HttpBinResponse = serde_json::from_slice(&body).unwrap(); ok(resp.json) }) }) } fn create_something_v2( some_data: web::Json, ) -> impl Future { step_x_v2(some_data.into_inner()).and_then(|some_data_2| { step_x_v2(some_data_2).and_then(|some_data_3| { step_x_v2(some_data_3).and_then(|d| { Ok(HttpResponse::Ok() .content_type("application/json") .body(serde_json::to_string(&d).unwrap()) .into()) }) }) }) } fn main() -> io::Result<()> { std::env::set_var("RUST_LOG", "actix_web=info"); env_logger::init(); HttpServer::new(|| { App::new() .service( web::resource("/something_v1") .route(web::post().to(create_something_v1)), ) .service( web::resource("/something_v2") .route(web::post().to_async(create_something_v2)), ) }) .bind("127.0.0.1:8088")? .run() }