An RPC server and client for ftml calls. See the relevant crate documentation for more information on "Foundation Text Markup Language".
Currently it does not connect to a DEEPWELL server for necessary external information (other pages, users, etc.), but will in the future.
This crate targets the latest stable Rust. At time of writing, that is 1.40.0
sh
$ cargo build --release
$ cargo run --release -- [arguments] # server
If you wish to use its client, import the crate and use it as a library.
Currently, all errors are transmitted as Err(String).
The current API provided by the RPC server is as follows:
protocol() -> io::Result<String>:
Returns a static protocol version. Currently "0".
ping() -> io::Result<()>:
Determines if the server is reachable.
time() -> io::Result<f64>:
Returns the system time on the server. It may be in any timezone and is not monotonic.
Followed by the three core ftml methods:
prefilter(input: String) -> io::Result<Result<String, String>>:
Preprocesses the text prior to parsing or rendering.
This will load any includes or perform typographic transformations.
See ftml Usage for more information.
parse(input: String) -> io::Result<Result<String, String>>:
Prefilters and then parses the input string, returning a JSON object corresponding to the syntax tree.
This is currently not typed in code, but follows the object pattern in ftml's SyntaxTree.
render(page_info: PageInfoOwned, input: String) -> io::Result<Result<HtmlOutput, String>>:
Prefilters, parses, and renders the page into HTML. The definition of the HtmlOutput object is available
here, though most notable are
the html field containing partial HTML (i.e. not including tags like <html> or <body>), and style,
which contains any generated CSS.
The argument of type PageInfoOwned passes
in information about the article being rendered.