benlesh / ale

Another Looping Event - An Event Loop Architecture for C#

ALE - Another Looping Event - (Alpha)

Created by Ben Lesh http://www.benlesh.com [email protected]

Licensed under MIT license

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DO NOT USE: This is an old experiment and is not maintained

This project is a Node.js style implementation of an event loop architecture in C#. This is something I whipped up for fun, mostly as a proof of concept. I like it though, and I'm looking for feedback.

Thank you for any feedback you might have.

examples

To start a webserver:

    EventLoop.Start(() => {
        Server.Create()
		   .Use((req, res) => {
              res.Write("<h1>Hello World</h1>");
           }).Listen("http://*:1337");
    });

To set up a web sockets server:

    EventLoop.Start(() => {
        Net.CreateServer((socket) => {
            socket.Receive((text) => {
                socket.Send("Echo: " + text);
            });
        }).Listen("127.0.0.1", 1338, "http://origin.com");
    });

Or just to do something like read a file from disk:

    EventLoop.Start(() => {
        File.ReadAllText(@"C:\File.txt", (text) => {
            DoSomething(text);
        });
    });

To start a ALE in IIS:

• Start a new web project.
• Reference ALE and ALE.Web.
• Add a reference to the HttpHandler in the Web.Config (here is the minimum Web.config required):

        <?xml version="1.0"?>
        <configuration>
          <system.web>
            <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
         </system.web>
         <system.webServer>
       	 <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>
         	<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
         	<handlers>
         	  <add verb="*" path="*"
         		name="AleHttpHandler"
         		type="ALE.Web.AleHttpHandler"/>
         	</handlers>
           </system.webServer>
         </configuration>

• Add initialization code to Application_Start in your Global.asax:

         void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
         {
            // Start the event loop.
            EventLoop.Start();
    
            // Get the ALE server instance and wire up your middlware.
            ALE.Web.Server.Create()
                .Use((req, res) => res.Write("Hello World"))
                .Use((req, res) => res.Write("<br/>No seriously, I said hello."));
         }

• Add teardown in Application_End in your Global.asax:

         void Application_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
         {
             // Shut down the EventLoop.
             EventLoop.Stop();
         }

See my related blog posts for more information: http://www.benlesh.com/search/label/ALE

Version History

• v 0.0.10.2 - Added basic Promise implementation
• v 0.0.9.4 - Updated EventLoops to be slightly more efficient.
  • added unit tests.
  • Fixed issues with Razor templating.
  • Fixed some issues with routing.
• v 0.0.7.2 - Added FileSystemWatcher implemention.
  • added beginnings of Razor template view processor.
• v 0.0.7.0 - Added routing.
• v 0.0.6.1 - Rewrote EventLoop to use Tasks and ContinueWith rather than Actions for performance reasons, and cleaned up the api a little.
  • moved File class to proper namespace.
  • updated File async methods.
  • added File.Read method for streaming file data.
• v 0.0.5.0 - Added asynchronous http handler for IIS integration.
• v 0.0.4.6 - Added a static file server implementation.
• v 0.0.4.4 - Updated web server to use a single event to register all actions
  • removed preprocessor and post processor events.
  • Create method no longer used to register a main event. There is no main event.
• v 0.0.4.2 - Converted middleware usage to simple event/delegate implementation.
• v 0.0.4.1 - Abstractions and Middleware capabilities added. Laying the groundwork for a routed server.
  • Abstracted out Server, Request and Response.
  • Added IPreprocessor and IPostprocessor for "before and after" middleware implementations.
  • Added Using method and overloards to IServer to handle attaching middleware.
• v 0.0.3.0 - Added non-blocking WebSocket implementation
• v 0.0.2.2 - Fixed a few issues
  • Fixed an issue where EventLoop wouldn't pause when Events Queue was empty.
  • Added Do.Async functionality.
  • Tested multithreaded event-loop processing.
• v 0.0.2.1 - Updated Sql client Reader call to .NET's non-blocking async call.
• v 0.0.2.0 - Updated all I/O called to .NET's non-blocking async calls.
• v 0.0.1.0 - Added a simple SqlClient implementation, ExecuteReader only for now. More soon.

ale's Issues

vertx

ever take a look at vertx for Java? i think it's cool but not sure if it really works