I have already bumped into CGI (after asking the question here). However, I have some issues with CGI. For example, I have to add HEADERS maintaining CRLF etc in the output. However, I want the CLI app to be totally independent. I mean, I want to output regular text or json without any header. So, what I really want is:
CLI_APP | ADD_UI | ADD_CGI_HEADER Where CLI_APP gives me pure json. ADD_UI adds HTML, CSS, JS on the json output. And ADD_CGI_HEADER adds the extra stuff that is needed to make the final response sendable via the server. Please note that when the user will send a request, it will have to go through the total pipeline. Also please note that, I can always call ADD_UI at the end of CLI_APP and call ADD_CGI_HEADER at the end of ADD_UI. But that way, I am not decoupling. And the later binaries will be dependent on the previous ones. This is not something I want. I want to *pipe the outputs to get the final response*. How can I do that? Do I need to extend the apache server in any way (like creating any module or something like that). *Thanks and Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail* On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 8:52 PM Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > you can use CGI to prototype it, and FastCGI later for performance (if > it matters) > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 10:28 AM Ahmad Ismail <ismail...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I want to create a CLI app (in this case named CLI_APP), that will > > output json and can be accessed via web. > > > > In Linux terms, it will look like: > > > > Request | Web_Server | CLI_APP | ADD_UI | Web_Server > Response > > > > Now, I will run the app like `CLI_APP --output json`. Here, I am > > saying that the CLI_APP will output json (for REST API). > > > > Here, `ADD_UI --output web` will add HTML, CSS, JS etc. to the JSON > output. > > > > Can apache help me send the requests to CLI_APP via STDIN and serve > > the final output of `ADD_UI --output web`? > > > > Thanks and Best Regards, > > Ahmad Ismail > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > > > > -- > Eric Covener > cove...@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
