Poll Event Loop Sample in C

The Poll Event Loop sample demonstrates how to add HTTP server functionality to your C application and use a polled event loop to wait for I/O events. AppWeb offers several methods to wait for events. See the Programming Paradigms document for further information.

The sample is a single-threaded main program that listens on port 8888 for HTTP requests. See also the equivalent C++ pollEventLoop sample.

Files

pollEventLoop.conf
Makefile
pollEventLoop.c

Configuration File

pollEventLoop.conf

DocumentRoot "."
Listen 8888
ThreadLimit 0
AddHandler copyHandler

The pollEventLoop.conf file is an AppWeb configuration file. It is configured to run single-threaded and assumes that the sample is being run from the current directory.

You should modify the DocumentRoot and Listen directives to suit your application's needs.

Makefile

The Makefile will build on Windows or Linux. A Windows VS 6.0 project file is also supplied.

Typical output from the Makefile build is listed below. This is the output on a Windows system:

cl -o pollEventLoop.exe pollEventLoop.c -Zi -Od -D_NDEBUG -W3 -nologo -MDd -FD -DWIN -D_DLL \
-D_MT -D_WINDOWS -DWIN32 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x500 -D_X86_=1 -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_USRDLL \
-I../../../include ../../../bin/libappWebStatic.lib ws2_32.lib advapi32.lib user32.lib
 

Source Code

pollEventLoop.c

/*
 *  @file   pollEventLoop.c
 *  @brief  Embed the AppWeb server in a simple single-threaded C
 *          application that uses a polling event loop.
 *  Copyright (c) Mbedthis Software LLC, 2003-2005. All Rights Reserved.
 */
/******************************* Includes *****************************/

#define     UNSAFE_FUNCTIONS_OK 1

#include    "appWeb/appWeb.h"

#if BLD_FEATURE_C_API_MODULE
/************************** Forward Declarations **********************/

static void eventLoop();

/********************************* Code *******************************/

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    MaHttp      *http;      /* For the http service inside our app */
    MaServer    *server;    /* For a HTTP server */

    /*
     *  Initialize the run-time and give our app a name 
     *  "pollEventLoop"
     */
    mprCreateMpr("pollEventLoop");

    /*
     *  Do the following two statements only if you want debug trace
     */
    mprAddLogFileListener();
    mprSetLogSpec("stdout:4");

    /*
     *  Start run-time services
     */
    mprStartMpr(0);

    /*
     *  Create the HTTP and server objects. Give the server a name 
     *  "default" and define "." as the default serverRoot, ie. the 
     *  directory with the server configuration files.
     */
    http = maCreateHttp();
    server = maCreateServer(http, "default", ".");
    
    /*
     *  Activate the copy handler. Only needed when linking statically.
     */
    mprCopyInit(0);

    /*
     *  Configure the server based on the directives in 
     *  pollEventLoop.conf.
     */
    if (maConfigureServer(server, "pollEventLoop.conf") < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, 
            "Can't configure the server. Error on line %d\n", 
            maGetConfigErrorLine(server));
        exit(2);
    }

    /*
     *  Start serving pages. After this we are live.
     */
    if (maStartServers(http) < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Can't start the server\n");
        exit(2);
    }

    /*
     *  Service events. This call will block until the server is exited
     *  Call mprTerminate() at any time to instruct the server to exit.
     */
    eventLoop();

    /*
     *  Stop all HTTP services
     */
    maStopServers(http);

    /*
     *  Delete the server and http objects
     */
    maDeleteServer(server);
    maDeleteHttp(http);

    /*
     *  Stop and delete the run-time services
     */
    mprStopMpr();
    mprDeleteMpr();

    return 0;
}

/**********************************************************************/
/*
 *  Sample main event loop using polling. This demonstrates how to 
 *  create a polling event loop.
 */

static void eventLoop()
{
    int     timeout, till;

    /*
     *  We will nap for 50 milliseconds to avoid busy waiting
     */
    timeout = 50;

    while (!mprIsExiting()) {

        if (mprRunTimers() > 0) {
            till = 0;
        } else {
            till = mprGetIdleTime();
        }

        /*
         *  This will run tasks if maxThreads == 0 (single threaded). If 
         *  multithreaded, the thread pool will run tasks
         */
        if (mprRunTasks() > 0) {        /* Returns > 0 if more work to do */
            till = 0;
        }

        /*
         *  Do some work here
         */
        

        /*
         *  Now service any pending I/O
         */
        mprServiceEvents(1, min(timeout, till));
    }
}

/**********************************************************************/
#else /* BLD_FEATURE_C_API_MODULE */

int main()
{
    fprintf(stderr, "BLD_FEATURE_C_API_MODULE is not defined in config.h\n");
    exit(2);
}
#endif /* BLD_FEATURE_C_API_MODULE */



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