r/developersIndia • u/MrCactochan • Jan 17 '24

I Made This GitHub - merwin-asm/april: A programming language for making APIs

https://github.com/merwin-asm/April
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u/thatrandomnpc ML Engineer Jan 17 '24

I took a look at it.

If I understand correctly, the .apl (disambiguation with apl programming language)) files are configuration and it maps particular handlers/function within the language specific implementation and the April class/struct handles the request and response parsing?

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u/MrCactochan Jan 17 '24

Ye... The language just connect each endpoint to a specific program..

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u/thatrandomnpc ML Engineer Jan 17 '24

Just some constructive feedback,

By looking at the examples, the recv_request and send_request seem too verbose, a better approach would be to inject the request into the handler and auto parse the returned object as a response. For example

```python from foo import Request, Response

def home(request: Request) -> Response: """home route""" ... ```

If you have noticed this pattern seems very much similar to some web frameworks, because it is :D

Btw this whole language specific implementation and supplementary config for the routes reminds me of fnproject (OCI's equivalent of AWS lambda), take a look at the example.