simplehttp

simplehttp is a family of libraries and daemons built upon libevent that make high performance HTTP servers simple and straightforward to write.

The following libraries and daemons are included:

• buffered_socket - a simple abstraction on bufferevent for arbitrary TCP sockets
• domain_socket - an async C library for creating, listening, and communicating over unix domain sockets
• host_pool - a library for dealing with endpoint selection, pooling, failure, recovery, and backoff
• profiler_stats - a library to track arbitrary profiler timings for average, 95%, 99%, 100% time
• ps_to_http - a daemon built on top of pubsubclient to write messages from a source pubsub to destination simplequeue or pubsub server
• ps_to_file - a daemon built on top of pubsubclient to write messages from a source pubsub to time rolled output files
• pubsub - a daemon that receives data via HTTP POST events and writes to all subscribed long-lived HTTP connections
• pubsub_filtered - a pubsub daemon with the ability to filter/obfuscate fields of a JSON message
• pubsubclient - a library for writing clients that read from a pubsub
• pysimplehttp - a python library for working with pubsub and simplequeue
• qrencode
• queuereader - a library for writing clients that read from a simplequeue and do work
• simpleattributes
• simplegeo
• simplehttp
• simpleleveldb - a HTTP CRUD interface to leveldb
• simplememdb - an in-memory version of simpletokyo
• simplequeue - an in memory queue with HTTP /put and /get endpoints to push and pop data
• simpletokyo - a HTTP CRUD interface to front tokyo cabinet's ttserver
• sortdb - sorted database server

simplehttp Install Instructions

to install any of the simplehttp components you will need to install libevent 1.4.13+ and the 'simplehttp' module first.

build the main library this provides libsimplehttp.a simplehttp/simplehttp.h and simplehttp/queue.h

cd simplehttp
make && make install

now install whichever module you would like this will compile 'simplequeue' and place it in /usr/local/bin

cd simplequeue
make && make install

Some modules have additional dependencies:

• json-c
• leveldb
• tokyocabinet / tokyotyrant
• qrencode
• pcre

pysimplehttp Install Instructions

pip install pysimplehttp

provides file_to_sq.py and ps_to_sq.py. It will use ujson if available.