new_app_process: Run a presser app in another process

In presser: Lightweight Web Server for Testing

Description

Runs an app in a subprocess, using callr::r_session.

Usage

new_app_process(
  app,
  port = NULL,
  opts = server_opts(remote = TRUE),
  process_timeout = 5000,
  callr_opts = NULL
)

Arguments

app	presser_app object, the web app to run.
port	Port to use. By default the OS assigns a port.
opts	Server options. See server_opts() for the defaults.
process_timeout	How long to wait for the subprocess to start, in milliseconds.
callr_opts	Options to pass to callr::r_session_options() when setting up the subprocess.

Value

A presser_app_process object.

Methods

The presser_app_process class has the following methods:

get_app()
get_port()
stop()
get_state()
local_env(envvars)
url(path = "/", query = NULL)

• envvars: Named list of environment variables.

• path: Path to return the URL for.

• query: Additional query parameters, a named list, to add to the URL.

get_app() returns the app object.

get_port() returns the port the web server is running on.

stop() stops the web server, and also the subprocess. If the error log file is not empty, then it dumps its contents to the screen.

get_state() returns a string, the state of the web server:

• "not running" the server is not running (because it was stopped already).

• "live" means that the server is running.

• "dead" means that the subprocess has quit or crashed.

local_env() sets the given environment variables for the duration of the app process. It resets them in $stop().

url() returns the URL of the web app. You can use the path parameter to return a specific path.

Examples

app <- new_app()
app$get("/foo", function(req, res) {
  res$send("Hello world!")
})

proc <- new_app_process(app)
url <- proc$url("/foo")
resp <- curl::curl_fetch_memory(url)
cat(rawToChar(resp$content))

proc$stop()

presser documentation built on July 1, 2020, 5:49 p.m.