Lightweight Kotlin Web Server

A simple, easy to use and lightweight kotlin web server for small quick projects

Installation

Kotlin DSL

repositories {
    maven {
        name = "devOS"
        url = uri("https://mvn.devos.one/releases")
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation("cz.lukynka:lkws:1.0")
}

Gradle Groovy

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven {
        name "devOS"
        url "https://mvn.devos.one/releases"
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'cz.lukynka:lkws:1.0'
}

How to Use

You want to create new instance of LightweightWebServer with port supplied as parameter (defaults to 7270)

val server = LightweightWebServer(port = 7270)

You can then listen to get calls on specific path by calling .get(path) on the server and providing lambda expression to execute when a request is received at the specified endpoint.

server.get("/uwu") { res ->
    res.respond("owo :3")
}

you can use Response.URLParameters[param] to get url parameter

server.put("/users/{USER}/settings") {
    val user = it.URLParameters["USER"]
    val updatedSettingsJson = it.requestBody
    //handle stuff

    it.respond("settings changed", 201)
}

You can use Response.requestCookies[cookie] to get value of cookie. Will return null if cookie was not found. To return error to user you can simply throw exception. Error page is customizable (Error Handling section below)

server.post("/projects/create") {
    if(it.requestCookies["token"] != superSecretTokenTrustMe) throw Exception("nuh uh, you are not logged in")

    val projectName = it.queryParameters["name"]
    val redirectAfterCreated = it.queryParameters["redirect"].toBoolean()
    //whatever here

    if(redirectAfterCreated) {
        it.respondRedirect("/projects/$projectName")
    } else {
        it.respond("project created", 201)
    }
}

You can add Headers by adding Pair<string, string>to the headers variable of Response

server.get("/status") { res ->
    res.headers.Add(Pair("Content-Type", "application/json"))
    res.respondJson("{ 'status': 'operational' }")
}

Additionally, this supports all request types (GET, POST, PUT, HEAD, PATCH etc.)

Error Handling

Listening to errors / invalid requests is pretty much the same as listening to for example GET requests but with the difference of the thrown exception being included in the response object

server.error { res ->
    res.respond("oopsie happened: ${res.exception}", 500)
}