Re: [ANN] Copas 2 scheduler release

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 6 April 2015 at 09:23, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
> All,
>
> Copas is a dispatcher based on coroutines that can be used for asynchroneous networking. For example TCP or UDP based servers. But it also features timers and client support for http(s), ftp and smtp requests.
>
> It uses LuaSocket as the interface with the TCP/IP stack and LuaSec for ssl support
>
> I just tagged a new version of Copas in its Github repo. The new version has 2 main features;
>  - ssl support through LuaSec
>  - client support (http(s)/ftp/smtp). Notably; http(s) redirects across http <-> https
>
> The complete list;
>  - Added: removeserver() function to remove servers from the scheduler (by Paul Kulchenko)
>  - Added: client requests for http(s), ftp, and smtp (like LuaSocket/LuaSec, but async)
>  - Added: transparent async support (handshake, and send/receive) for ssl using LuaSec
>  - Added: handler() as a convenience for full copas and ssl wrapping
>  - [breaking] Change: the loop now exits when there is nothing more to do
>  - [breaking] Change: dummy first argument to new tasks removed
>  - Fixed: completed the socket wrappers, missing functions were added
>  - Fixed: connect issue, step() errorring out instead of returning nil + error
>  - Fixed: UDP sockets being auto closed
>  - Fixed: the receivePartial function for http request support (by Paul Kulchenko)
>
> Though I don't expect the 2 breaking changes to have any impact or break anything. I bumped to 2.0 anyway, just in case.
>
> The code is available in the github repo, not yet through LuaRocks due to some upload issues.

Upload issues fixed, so you can just run

   luarocks install copas

to enjoy the latest release.

Cheers,
-- Hisham