[Gd-hackers] koala changes

[Chris Page]

On Jan 18, 2007, at 08:15 AM, Carl Gay wrote:

> let config = make(<http-server-configuration>);
> load-config(config, "filename");
> config.port := 8001;  // optional
> config.xml-rpc-enabled? := #t;
> register-url(config, '/foo', my-responder);
> register-xml-rpc-method(config, "blah", blah);
> let server = make(<http-server>, config: config);
> start-server(server); // returns immediately. optionally waits.

I'm unclear what you're trying to say with this example, and what the  
relationships between the pieces of data are.

Are you overriding the port and XML RPC values after loading them as  
part of the configuration file, or are they always supplied  
separately? What goes in a configuration?

Why aren't more of the values supplied as initialization arguments to  
make?

Why not do it more like this:

   let config = make(<http-server-configuration>,
                     init-file: "filename",
                     port: 8001,
                     xml-rpc-enabled: #t,
                     url-responders: vector(make(<url-responder>,
                                                 url: "/foo",
                                                 responder: my- 
responder)),
                     xml-rpc-methods: vector(make(<xml-rpc-method>,
                                                  blah-string: "blah",
                                                  blah: blah)));
   let server = make(<http-server>, configuration: config);
   start-server(server);

Alternatively, how about using a serialization library to read/write  
the server object?

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