Web Module
This XQuery Module provides convenience functions for building web applications with RESTXQ.
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Conventions
All functions in this module are assigned to the http://basex.org/modules/web
namespace, which is statically bound to the web
prefix.
All errors are assigned to the http://basex.org/errors
namespace, which is statically bound to the bxerr
prefix.
Functions
web:content-type
Signatures | web:content-type($path as xs:string) as xs:string |
Summary | Returns the content type of a path by analyzing its file suffix. application/octet-stream is returned if the file suffix is unknown.
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web:create-url
Signatures | web:create-url($url as xs:string, $parameters as map(*)) as xs:string |
Summary | Creates a new URL from the specified $url string and the $parameters specified in a map. The keys and and values of the map entries will be converted to strings, URI-encoded, and appended to the url as query parameters. If a map entry has more than a single item, all of them will be appended as single parameters.
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web:redirect
Signatures | web:redirect($location as xs:string) as element(rest:response) |
Summary | Creates a RESTXQ redirection to the specified location. Redirects will only work if no other items are returned. |
Examples | The query web:redirect('/a/b') returns the following response element:
<rest:response xmlns:rest="http://exquery.org/ns/restxq"> <http:response xmlns:http="http://expath.org/ns/http-client" status="302"> <http:header name="location" value="/a/b"/> </http:response> </rest:response> |
web:response-header
Signatures | web:response-header($path as xs:string) as element(rest:response) |
Summary | Creates a RESTXQ reponse header for the specified $file with the correct mime-type and some caching directives. The output will only be correctly evaluated if no other items are returned before the header.
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Examples | If the following RESTXQ function is called…declare %rest:path('image/{$image}') function local:get($image) { let $path := 'path/to/' || $image return ( web:response-header($path), file:read-binary($path) ) }; …an image with the specified name (if available) will be sent back to the client: <rest:response xmlns:rest="http://exquery.org/ns/restxq"> <http:response xmlns:http="http://expath.org/ns/http-client" status="302"> <http:header name="Cache-Control" value="max-age=3600,public"/> </http:response> <output:serialization-parameters xmlns:output="http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization"> <output:media-type value="image/png"/> <output:method value="raw"/> </output:serialization-parameters> </rest:response>, ... |
Changelog
The module was introduced with Version 8.1.