NAME
    McBain::WithPSGI - Load a McBain API as a RESTful PSGI web service

VERSION
    version 1.001000

SYNOPSIS
            # write your API as you normally would, and create
            # a simple psgi file:

            #!/usr/bin/perl -w

            BEGIN { $ENV{MCBAIN_WITH} = 'WithPSGI'; }

            use warnings;
            use strict;
            use MyAPI;

            my $app = MyAPI->to_app;

DESCRIPTION
    "McBain::WithPSGI" turns your McBain API into a RESTful PSGI web service
    based on Plack, thus making "McBain" a web application framework.

    The created web service will be a JSON-in JSON-out service. Requests to
    your application are expected to have a "Content-Type" of
    "application/json; charset=UTF-8". The JSON body of a request will be
    the payload. The results of the API will be formatted into JSON as well.

    Note that if an API method does not return a hash-ref, this runner
    module will automatically turn it into a hash-ref to ensure that
    conversion into JSON will be possible. The created hash-ref will have
    one key - holding the method's name, with whatever was returned from the
    method as its value. For example, if method "GET:/divide" in topic
    "/math" returns an integer (say 7), then the client will get the JSON "{
    "GET:/math/divide": 7 }".

  SUPPORTED HTTP METHODS
    This runner support all methods natively supported by McBain. That is:
    "GET", "PUT", "POST", "DELETE" and "OPTIONS". To add support for "HEAD"
    requests, use Plack::Middleware::Head.

    The "OPTIONS" method is special. It returns a list of all HTTP methods
    allowed by a specific route (in the "Allow" header). The response body
    will be the same hash-ref returned by "McBain" for "OPTIONS" requests,
    JSON encoded.

METHODS EXPORTED TO YOUR API
    None.

METHODS REQUIRED BY MCBAIN
  init( $target )
    Makes the root topic of your API inherit Plack::Component, so that it
    officially becomes a Plack app. This will provide your API with the
    "to_app()" method.

  generate_env( $psgi_env )
    Receives the PSGI env hash-ref and creates McBain's standard env
    hash-ref from it.

  generate_res( $env, $res )
    Converts the result of an API method to JSON, and returns a standard
    PSGI response array-ref.

  handle_exception( $err )
    Formats exceptions into JSON and returns a standard PSGI array-ref.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
    No configuration files are required. To tell McBain to use this runner
    module, the "MCBAIN_WITH" environment variable must be set to
    "WithPSGI". See the "SYNOPSIS" for an example.

DEPENDENCIES
    "McBain::WithPSGI" depends on the following CPAN modules:

    *   Carp

    *   JSON

    *   Plack

INCOMPATIBILITIES WITH OTHER MODULES
    None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    Please report any bugs or feature requests to
    "bug-McBain-WithPSGI@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
    <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=McBain-WithPSGI>.

SUPPORT
    You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

            perldoc McBain::WithPSGI

    You can also look for information at:

    *   RT: CPAN's request tracker

        <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=McBain-WithPSGI>

    *   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

        <http://annocpan.org/dist/McBain-WithPSGI>

    *   CPAN Ratings

        <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/McBain-WithPSGI>

    *   Search CPAN

        <http://search.cpan.org/dist/McBain-WithPSGI/>

AUTHOR
    Ido Perlmuter <ido@ido50.net>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2013, Ido Perlmuter "ido@ido50.net".

    This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself, either version 5.8.1 or any later
    version. See perlartistic and perlgpl.

    The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
    with this module.

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