updated README

LAYOUT.md

@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-# Internal structure of Landline lib
-
-Note: If you want to start hacking on Landline and extending it, follow this
-layout as closely as possible.
-
-## Core classes
-
-These are core classes of Landline and they are loaded as soon as the library is loaded.
-
-- Landline::Path [path.rb]
-- Landline::PathContext [path.rb]
-- Landline::Probe [probe.rb]
-- Landline::ProbeContext [probe.rb]
-- Landline::Node (parent of Path and Probe) [node.rb]
-- Landline::Server (Rack application interface) [server.rb]
-- Landline::ServerContext [server.rb]
-- Landline::Request (Rack request wrapper) [request.rb]
-- Landline::Response (Rack response wrapper) [response.rb]
-- Landline::Pattern [pattern\_matching.rb]
-- Landline::TemplateContext [tempalte.rb]
-- Landline::Template (template engine interface) [template.rb]
-
-## Patterns
-
-These are classes that Landline::Pattern can interface with to create Patterns.
-
-- Landline::PatternMatching::ReMatch [pattern\_matching/rematch.rb]
-- Landline::PatternMatching::Glob [pattern\_matching/glob.rb]
-
-## DSL Method mixins
-
-These are module mixins that add common methods to DSL bindings.
-
-- Landline::DSL::PathConstructors [dsl/constructors\_path.rb]
-- Landline::DSL::ProbeConstructures [dsl/constructors\_probe.rb]
-- Landline::DSL::CommonMethods [dsl/methods\_common.rb]
-- Landline::DSL::PathMethods [dsl/methods\_path.rb]
-- Landline::DSL::ProbeMethods [dsl/methods\_probe.rb]
-- Landline::DSL::TemplateMethods [dsl/methods\_template.rb]
-
-## Utilities
-
-These are self-contained classes and methods that add extra functionality to Landline.
-
-- Landline::Util::Lookup [util/lookup.rb]
-- Landline::PatternMatching [pattern\_matching/util.rb]
-- Landline::Cookie (class) [util/cookie.rb]
-- Landline::Error (class) [util/errors.rb]
-- Landline::ParsingError (class) [util/errors.rb]
-- Landline::Util (html/http utilities) [util/html.rb]
-- Landline::MIME (MIME extension to type association) [util/mime.rb]
-- Landline::Util::ParserSorting (functions for sorting form/query hashes) [util/parsesorting.rb]
-- Landline::Util::Query (query class) [util/query.rb]
-- Landline::Util::FormPart (formparser struct) [util/multipart.rb]
-- Landline::Util::MultipartParser (multipart form parser) [util/multipart.rb]
-- Landline::Util::HeaderRegexp (helper regexps for headers) [util/parseutils.rb]
-- Landline::Util (parser methods) [util/parseutils.rb]
-
-## Probe subclasses
-
-These are reactive request handlers with their own semantics, if needed.
-
-- Landline::Handlers::Handler [probe/handler.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::GETHandler [probe/http\_method.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::POSTHandler [probe/http\_method.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::HEADHandler [probe/http\_method.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::PUTHandler [probe/http\_method.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::DELETEHandler [probe/http\_method.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::CONNECTHandler [probe/http\_method.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::OPTIONSHandler [probe/http\_method.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::TRACEHandler [probe/http\_method.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::PATCHHandler [probe/http\_method.rb]
-- Landline::Handlers::Serve
-
-## Path subclasses
-
-These are navigation handlers with their own semantics.
-
-(currently none)
-
-## Template engine interfaces
-
-These are uniform interfaces for various templating engines.
-
-- Landline::Templates::ERB [template/erb.rb]
-- Landline::Templates::Erubi [template/erubi.rb]

README.md

@@ -2,25 +2,15 @@
 
 Landline is a library that provides a minimalistic DSL for creating
 web services. It doesn't include patterns, middleware, or anything that
-could be considered application logic. It does a few things, and hopefully
-it does them well:
+could be considered application logic, besides the basic primitives
+It does a few things, and hopefully it does them well.
 
-- Routing HTTP requests to handlers
-- Processing HTTP requests (cookies, headers, etc.)
-- Filtering, preprocessing and postprocessing requests
-- Creating responses from templates using various template engines
-- Parsing and handling forms and queries
-- Connecting multiple Landline applications together
-
-As such, the library is pretty thin and can be used to build more complex
-applications.
-
-As of now it is using Rack as the webserver adapter, but ideally it
-shouldn't take much work to make it run on top of any webserver.
-
-Landline was made mostly for fun. Ideally it will become something more,
+Landline was made mostly for fun. ~~Ideally it will become something more,
 but as of yet it's just an experiment revolving around Ruby Metaprogramming
-and its DSL capabilities.
+and its DSL capabilities.~~ Since then, it has somewhat matured, and while
+it's still not entirely advisable to use in production due to the experimental
+nature of the framework, you're free to test it, see if it works, and if it
+doesn't, supply (hopefully constructive) criticism and/or suggestions.
 
 ## Examples
 
@@ -85,7 +75,7 @@ end
 run app
 ```
 
-Static file serving
+Static file serving with nginx-like syntax and file globbing
 (Note: index applies *only* to /var/www (to the path its defined in))
 
 ```ruby
@@ -100,7 +90,7 @@ end
 run app
 ```
 
-Logging on a particular path
+Preprocessing requests on a subset of handlers
 
 ```ruby
 require 'landline'
@@ -127,8 +117,72 @@ end
 run app
 ```
 
+Class interface with middleware support
+
+```ruby
+require 'landline'
+
+class TimerMiddleware
+  def initialize(app)
+    @app = app
+  end
+
+  def call(*data)
+    puts("Request accepted")
+    before = Time.now
+    output = @app.call(*data)
+    puts("Time elapsed: #{(Time.now - before) * 1000}ms")
+    output
+  end
+end
+
+class Application < Landline::App
+  use TimerMiddleware
+
+  setup do
+    get "/hello" do
+      "Hello world!"
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+run Application.new
+```
+
 And a lot more to be found in /examples in this repo.
 
+
+## Design goals
+
+Out of the box, Landline is designed to do the following:
+
+- Routing HTTP requests to handlers
+- Processing HTTP requests (cookies, headers, etc.)
+- Filtering, preprocessing, postprocessing requests
+- Deferring block execution until after the request gets processed
+- Creating responses from templates using various template engines
+- Parsing and handling forms and queries
+- Connecting multiple ~~Landline~~ Rack applications together
+- Sending files using nginx-style configuration system
+- A lot of basic Rack things such as plugging in middleware, BEING middleware,
+  or sending Rack-compatible environment to another Rack application
+
+As such, the library is pretty thin and can be used to build more complex
+applications. This is intentional, and hopefully will remain that way.
+
+Additionally, there are a few extra things landline can do, which can be used
+by `require`ing from the `landline/extensions` directory. Please note, however,
+that some of that functionality may require additional dependencies, which
+would otherwise be optional. This functionality includes:
+
+- PHP-like Session handling (via `landline/extensions/session`)
+- Websockets (via `landline/extensions/websockets`) (coming soon)
+- (Probably something else eventually)
+
+Landline is built entirely on Rack webserver interface, while being agnostic
+to any and all underlying webservers (such as Puma, Thin, Unicorn and such).
+For the foreseeable future, this design decision will not change.
+
 ## Name
 
 The name is, quite literally, a metaphor for request routing.

lib/landline.rb

@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ require_relative 'landline/response'
 require_relative 'landline/template'
 require_relative 'landline/app'
 
-# Landline is a hideously simple ruby web framework
+# Landline is a backend framework born as a by-product of experimentation
 module Landline
   # Landline version
-  VERSION = '0.11 "Decades of science" (beta)'
+  VERSION = '0.12 "Concrete and Gold" (pre-alpha)'
 
   # Landline branding and version
   VLINE = "Landline/#{Landline::VERSION} (Ruby/#{RUBY_VERSION}/#{RUBY_RELEASE_DATE})\n".freeze