Rack::Parser
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Rack::Parser is a rack middleware that allows your application to do decode/parse incoming post data into param hashes for your applications to use. You can provide a custom Parser for things like JSON, XML, MSGPACK using your library of choice.
Installation
install it via rubygems:
gem install rack-parser
or put it in your Gemfile:
# Gemfile
gem 'rack-parser', :require => 'rack/parser'
Usage
In a Sinatra or Padrino application, it would probably be something like:
# app.rb
use Rack::Parser, :parsers => { 'application/json' => proc { |data| JSON.parse data },
'application/xml' => proc { |data| XML.parse data },
%r{msgpack} => proc { |data| Msgpack.parse data }
}
Content Type Parsing
By default, Rack::Parser uses JSON
decode/parse your JSON Data. This can be overwritten if you choose not to use
them. You can do it like so:
use Rack::Parser, :parsers => {
'application/json' => proc { |body| MyCustomJsonEngine.do_it body },
'application/xml' => proc { |body| MyCustomXmlEngine.decode body },
'application/roll' => proc { |body| 'never gonna give you up' }
}
Error Handling
Rack::Parser comes with a default error handling response that is sent
if an error is to occur. If a logger
is present, it will try to warn
with the content type and error message.
You can additionally customize the error handling response as well to whatever it is you like:
use Rack::Parser, :handlers => {
'application/json' => proc { |e, type| [400, { 'Content-Type' => type }, ["broke"]] }
}
The error handler expects to pass both the error
and content_type
so
that you can use them within your responses. In addition, you can
override the default response as well.
If no content_type error handling response is present, it will return 400
Do note, the error handler rescues exceptions that are descents of StandardError
. See
http://www.mikeperham.com/2012/03/03/the-perils-of-rescue-exception/
Regex Matching
With version 0.4.0
, you can specify regex matches for the content
types that you want the parsers
and handlers
to match.
NOTE: you need to explicitly pass a Regexp
for it to regex match.
parser = proc { |data| JSON.parse data }
handler = proc { |e, type| [400, {}, 'boop'] }
use Rack::Parser, :parsers => { %r{json} => parser },
:handlers => { %r{heyyyy} => handler }
Inspirations
This project came to being because of:
- Niko Dittmann's rack-post-body-to-params which some of its ideas are instilled in this middleware.
- Rack::PostBodyContentTypeParser from rack-contrib which proved to be an inspiration for both libraries.
External Sources/Documentations
- Sinatra recipes - mini tutorial on using rack-parser (thanks to Eric Gjertsen)
Contributors
- Stephen Becker IV - For initial custom error response handling work.
- Tom May - skip loading post body unless content type is set.
- Moonsik Kang - skip rack parser for content types that are not explicitly set.
-
Guillermo Iguaran - Updating
multi_xml
version dependency for XML/YAML exploit - Doug Orleans - Handle only post-body parsing errors and let upstream errors propogate downstream
- Akshay Moghe - Make default error handler rack compliant by responding to #each and use StandardError
Copyright
Copyright © 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016 Arthur Chiu. See MIT-LICENSE for details.