[−][src]Crate coap_handler
The coap-handler
crate defines an interface between a CoAP server (that listens for
requests on the network and parses the messages) and request handlers (that process the
requests and creates responses from them).
The interface is generic over message formats by using the coap-message crate, which allows the handler to construct the response right into the send buffer prepared by the server implementation. By separating the request processing and the response phase, a server can be implemented even on network stacks that have only a single network buffer.
Along with the interface, the crate provides some simple implementations, from the generic "4.04
Not Found" responder up to a handler that creates a write formatter for GET-only resources,
and even provides block-wise transfer that.
The implementations::SimpleCBORWrapper enables the easy creation of serde_cbor based
resource implementations with GET, PUT and POST support in CBOR format.
The HandlerBuilder
implements crude static path based routing
that may suffice for some applications, and is also useful to get started quickly.
Known shortcomings of the current interface are:
- No consideration for asynchronous processing.
- Handler mutability is a bit iffy -- there's no way yet for the server to express any promise
about only running one handler at a time, thus handlers often hold shared references to a
RefCell
that isborrow_mut()
'd (if no other code that can be concurrent with the CoAP server can have access to theT
), ortry_borrow_mut()
'd (and errs back with a 5.03 Max-Age:0 response). - Multiple responses (as, for example, in observations) are not supported.
Modules
helpers | |
implementations |
Traits
Handler | A CoAP request handler. This gets called by a CoAP server implementation that the handler is assigned to; the server has the handler digest the request's data into a RequestData structure, possibly calls estimate_length before allocating a response message, and then asks the handler to populate the allocated response message with data persisted in the RequestData structure. |