monkey_lua

A plugin for monkey http server for lua scripting support.

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LUA Scripting Plugin

This is a Lua plugin for scipting purposes for the Monkey HTTP daemon.

You can execute a Lua script and return the response. You get access to few of monkey's internals in the lua environment.

Requirements

Installation

cd monkey
git clone https://github.com/diadara/monkey_lua.git plugins/lua
./configure
make

# Edit conf/plugins.load and uncomment line with monkey-lua.so
# Edit conf/plugins/lua.conf
# put your scripts in htdocs 
./bin/monkey

Usage

The plugin exposes a table mk through which you can get the request object and also set the response.

mk.print

mk.print takes a string and prints it one the response body.

mk.config

config table contains information about monkey server and the current configuration. This table consists of-

kernel_features

This table consists of 3 boolean fields TCP_FASTOPEN, SO_REUSEPORT, TCP_AUTOCORKING.

worker_capacity

Monkey servers current worker capacity.

workers

Number of running workers.

max_load

Maximum load that can be handled by the server currently.

manual_tcp_cork

Boolean indicating whether manual_tcp_cork.

fdt

Boolean indicating whether fdt enabled.

is_daemon

Boolean indicating whether monkey running in daemon mode.

is_seteuid

Boolean indicating whether seteuid.

scheduler_mode

String indicating the current scheduler algorithm.

server_config

Current server configuration.

listen_addr

Current server listen address.

server_addr

Current server address.

server_software

Current server software string.

user

Username under which server is running.

user_dir

current user directory.

pid_file_path

PID file path

server_conf_file

Server configuration file.

mimes_conf_file

Mimetypes configuration file.

plugin_load_conf_file

Plugin load configuration file.

sites_conf_dir

Sites configuration directory

plugins_conf_dir

Plugin configuration directory

transport

Current transport (http/https).

transport_layer

Current transport layer.

mk.request

Request table consists of following items:

server_software

Server software string.

document_root

Document root for the current request

server_name

Server name for the current request.

server_addr

Current server address.

server_port

Current server port.

script_filename

Script file name for the current request.

request_method

Current request method.

remote_addr

client address.

remote port

client port.

request_uri

Request url for the current request.

query string

query string

data

POST or PUT data.

headers

Table with the http headers from the current request.

parseargs()

Function which parses the query string and returns two tables one with keys as the query string variable and value as it's value and other with key and other with query string variable as the key and value as an array of variable values.

t1, t2 = parseargs()

parsedata()

Function which parses the post data and returns two tables

t1, t2 = parsedata()

mk.response

Response table consists of following items:

status

Set this variable to current request response status code. Default value set to 200.

headers

Set http headers with this table

headers["Content-type"] = "text/json"

mk.cookies

The cookie table consists of following items.

get_cookies()

The function returns a table of cookies the client has sent.

mk.set_cookie()

The function takes a table as argument and sets the cookie accordingly.

cookies.set_cookie{name="name", value="nithin", httponly = true, secure=true, domain="nithinsaji.in", expiry=os.time()+60*60*8}

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