RE: ClearSilver for C CGI bindings

I would love to hear about other "live" examples implemented in C for
ClearSilver usage as it's what we are going for.

In regards to the model, we're talking about a configuration for a
router's settings web application and I was thinking of implementing it
in such way
that each configuration/status page is a CGI program of it's own with
it's own cs template and there will probably be a single hdf file which
aggregates all the data.

In this manner too, I would be happy to hear of ideas for improvements
or a "better way to do it" comments.


Thanks,
Liran.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Long [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:19 AM
To: David Jeske
Cc: Liran Tal; [email protected]
Subject: Re: ClearSilver for C CGI bindings

The clearsilver model currently lacks a "top level" idea of how to
accept
and dispatch different types of requests.

The closest we've come to releasing something like that is for python in
the examples directory: python/examples/base/CSPage.py, but even that is
actually just an example base class for a single page, which doesn't
include the "how do I route a request to a page".

One of the reasons for this is that there are a lot of ways to do
things, and a lot of the early adopters for Clearsilver did things in
wildly different ways.  Some used C and had a separate CGI for each
page, some used python with a separate python script in mod_python, some
routed all requests through a single python wrapper, some weren't using
the LAMP stack at all but were compiling the code directly into their
own webserver.

The imd example is probably a pretty poor example of how one would
actually want to organize a large web app in C.  I should probably work
on a better example.  I had a slightly better one in C which implemented
a simple blog service, but it was for a customer and quickly became more
specific and less general than would be useful, and it depended on code
that couldn't be open sourced.

Maybe someone else on the list has a good and simple example that is
available?

Brandon

On 11/12/08 David Jeske uttered the following other thing:
> You can see an example image-server CGI written in C in the "imd"
directory.
> 
> The API is mostly the same in each language, so the brief tutorial
written for
> the Python API should be fairly easy to mentally translate into C.
Make sure
> you've checked out these pages first...
> 
> http://www.clearsilver.net/docs/template_basics.hdf
> http://www.clearsilver.net/docs/intro_clearsilver.hdf
> http://www.clearsilver.net/docs/c_api.hdf
> 
> Then take a look at the code in imd/imd.c. It provides a basic layout
for a
> c-CGI.
> 
> 
> -- Liran Tal wrote:
> > The website documentation doesn't cover in great detail the C
> > programming logic to create a CGI.
> >
> > I have looked at the examples in the the cgi/ directory provided
with
> > the tar.gz package although these
> >
> > are the final product and there are no examples with documented
usage on
> > how to utilize the provided
> > 
> > C API.
> > 
> > Are there any C-specific tutorials out there one can follow?
> 
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