Crate hyper_staticfile

Static file-serving for Hyper 0.12.

This library exports a high-level interface Static for simple file-serving, and lower-level interfaces for more control over responses.

Basic usage

The Static type is essentially a struct containing some settings, and a serve method to handle the request. It follows the builder pattern, and also implements the hyper::Service trait. It can be used as:

extern crate http;
extern crate hyper_staticfile;

// Instance of `Static`. Can be reused for multiple requests.
let static_ = hyper_staticfile::Static::new("my/doc/root/");

// A dummy request, but normally obtained from Hyper.
let request = http::Request::get("/foo/bar.txt")
    .body(())
    .unwrap();

// Serve the request. Returns a `StaticFuture` for a response.
let response_future = static_.serve(request);

Typically, you'd store the Static instance somewhere, such as in your own hyper::Service implementation.

Advanced usage

The Static type is a simple wrapper for resolve and ResponseBuilder. You can achieve the same by doing something similar to the following:

extern crate futures;
extern crate http;
extern crate hyper_staticfile;

use futures::future::Future;
use std::path::Path;

// Document root path.
let root = Path::new("my/doc/root/");

// A dummy request, but normally obtained from Hyper.
let request = http::Request::get("/foo/bar.txt")
    .body(())
    .unwrap();

// First, resolve the request. Returns a `ResolveFuture` for a `ResolveResult`.
let resolve_future = hyper_staticfile::resolve(&root, &request);

// Then, build a response based on the result.
// The `ResponseBuilder` is typically a short-lived, per-request instance.
let response_future = resolve_future.map(move |result| {
    hyper_staticfile::ResponseBuilder::new()
        .build(&request, result)
        .unwrap()
});

The resolve function tries to find the file in the root, and returns a ResolveFuture for the ResolveResult enum, which determines what kind of response should be sent. The ResponseBuilder is then used to create a default response. It holds some settings, and can be constructed using the builder pattern.

It's useful to sit between these two steps to implement custom 404 pages, for example. Your custom logic can override specific cases of ResolveResult, and fall back to the default behavior using ResponseBuilder if necessary.

The ResponseBuilder in turn uses FileResponseBuilder to serve files that are found. The FileResponseBuilder can also be used directly if you have an existing open tokio::fs::File and want to serve it. It takes care of basic headers, 'not modified' responses, and streaming the file in the body.

Finally, there's FileChunkStream, which is used by FileResponseBuilder to stream the file. This is a struct wrapping a tokio::fs::File and implementing a futures::Stream that produces hyper::Chunks. It can be used for streaming a file in custom response.

Structs

FileChunkStream	Wraps a tokio::fs::File, and implements a stream of hyper::Chunks.
FileResponseBuilder	Utility to build responses for serving a tokio::fs::File.
ResolveFuture	Future returned by resolve.
ResponseBuilder	Utility to build the default response for a resolve result.
Static	High-level interface for serving static files.
StaticFuture	Future returned by Static::serve.

Enums

ResolveResult

The result of resolve.

Functions

resolve

Resolve the request by trying to find the file in the given root.