Soup Examples

Require Vala >= 0.11.0

A simple server example

def default_handler (server : Soup.Server, msg : Soup.Message, path : string, 
                                        query : GLib.HashTable?, client : Soup.ClientContext)

        response_text : string = """
        <html>
        <body>
        <p>Current location: %s</p>
        <p><a href="/xml">Test XML</a></p>
        </body>
        </html>""".printf (path);

        msg.set_response ("text/html", Soup.MemoryUse.COPY, response_text.data)

def xml_handler (server : Soup.Server, msg : Soup.Message, path : string, query : GLib.HashTable?, client : Soup.ClientContext)
        response_text : string = "<node><subnode>test</subnode></node>"
        msg.set_response ("text/xml", Soup.MemoryUse.COPY, response_text.data);

init
        var server = new Soup.Server (Soup.SERVER_PORT, 8088);
        server.add_handler ("/", default_handler);
        server.add_handler ("/xml", xml_handler);
        server.run ();

Compile and Run

$ valac --pkg libsoup-2.4 --thread soup-server-example.gs
$ ./soup-server-example

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