Oxpecker 0.3.0

Oxpecker

Nuget package

Oxpecker is a functional wrapper around ASP.NET Core Endpoint routing (sometimes called Minimal API).

This library is basically a revised version of Giraffe, it mostly sticks to it's successful API (hence the name). Improvements involve changing some core types, performance of template handlers, simplifying handlers and dropping a lot of outdated functionality.

Features:

• Native ASP.NET Core Endpoint routing integration
• ViewEngine with convenient DSL for HTML
• Strongly typed route parameters
• Endpoint handlers and endpoint middlewares, flexible composition
• JSON binding and serialization
• Form binding
• URL parameters binding
• Response caching
• Streaming
• Authorization
• eTag support
• Many useful HttpContext extensions

Documentation:

TBD, for now you can use Giraffe documentation, with the following differences:

• routef parameters should be surrounded with curly braces {}, this allows using Route constraints
• routef handler arguments are now curried, not tuplified
• HttpHandler concept is separated into EndpointHandler and EndpointMiddlware. The difference is that the former doesn't accept next parameter, while the latter does.
• Case insensitive functions (*Ci) are dropped, since everything is case insensitive by default
• Some other route functions are dropped
• JSON.ISerializer only requires one method implemented
• Model binding will throw exceptions to be caught in common middleware (see examples/Basic)
• .NET 8 minimal target
• CE-based strongly typed ViewEngine built on class inheritance
• Oxpecker project is planned to be moved to fsprojects organization once it reaches 200 stars, expect high quality of maintenance