Http support

[jamesalbert]

I'm not sure if http support is better implemented built-in or through a library, but it's a generally useful feature.

I took a stab at handling get requests (super ugly, just got an mvp going)

https://github.com/jamesalbert/gravity/commit/2695e5b24bd663e0957598c21472006d19ab737f

Are there already plans to implement something like this? If not, with some feedback, is this something that can be added to the project?

[IngwiePhoenix]

There was someone planning to work on passing features from a single-header socket library to Gravity.

Fortunately, making a wrapper for a library towards Gravity is not that difficult - but it does involve reading through the various headers, since not all functions are labeled very well (take the marry_* functions and macros for instance, which do array handling).

But for that, you do get a very low-level access to Gravity and values, reducing the layers of abstractions quite some and making access to the wrapper itself quite fast.

I was looking into Swig, but trying to write a wrapper generator using Swig is all but easy unfortunately...

[jamesalbert]

@IngwiePhoenix is there a wrapper on github I can use for reference? I tried looking, but gravitational spams the search + it seems there are still open issues for module support

[IngwiePhoenix]

https://github.com/marcobambini/gravity/blob/master/src/optionals/gravity_env.c https://github.com/marcobambini/gravity/blob/master/src/optionals/gravity_env.h

This is one that I contributed. In general, you can find some good examples within the optionals folder.

[jamesalbert]

Oh, I saw those. That's what I modeled my changes off of

[IngwiePhoenix]

And yes - module support is in fact still missing. But with module support, people mean something like this:

import x from "y";
var x = require("y");

But you can still add functions to Gravity just fine.

[jamesalbert]

think my link was poorly placed, fixed it