Actix Web Flash

Actix web flash is an unofficial crate to provide flash messages in servers using Actix web.

Flash messages are typically used to display errors on websites that are rendered server side.

• Docs
• Examples

use actix_web::{http, server, App, HttpRequest, HttpResponse, Responder};
use actix_web_flash::{FlashMessage, FlashResponse, FlashMiddleware};

fn show_flash(flash: FlashMessage<String>) -> impl Responder {
    flash.into_inner()
}

fn set_flash(_req: &HttpRequest) -> FlashResponse<HttpResponse, String> {
    FlashResponse::new(
        Some("This is the message".to_owned()),
        HttpResponse::SeeOther()
            .header(http::header::LOCATION, "/show_flash")
            .finish(),
    )
}

fn main() {
    server::new(|| {
        App::new()
            .middleware(FlashMiddleware::default())
            .route("/show_flash", http::Method::GET, show_flash)
            .resource("/set_flash", |r| r.f(set_flash))
    }).bind("127.0.0.1:8080")
        .unwrap()
        .run();
}

License

MIT/Apache-2.0