dhttpy 0.2.0

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dhttp API bindings

dhttp-api publishes language bindings for the Rust dhttp endpoint facade.

Node SDK

@genmeta/dhttp follows Node/Undici. Root exports Endpoint, callable Service, standard Web Request/Response/Headers/ReadableStream, plain object EndpointOptions, and authority capability interfaces. @genmeta/dhttp/raw exposes Connection, UnresolvedRequest, MessageReader, MessageWriter, and HeaderField.

Node entry points

import { Endpoint, Service } from "@genmeta/dhttp";
import { Connection, UnresolvedRequest } from "@genmeta/dhttp/raw";

CommonJS is also supported:

const { Endpoint, Service } = require("@genmeta/dhttp");
const raw = require("@genmeta/dhttp/raw");

Node endpoint options

const endpoint = await Endpoint.create({
  identity,
  dnsSchemes: ["h3", "mdns", "system"],
  bindPatterns: ["*"],
});

EndpointOptions is a plain object TypeScript interface. There is no public new EndpointOptions() helper in the root package.

Node server API

Endpoint.listen(function) receives raw UnresolvedRequest objects:

endpoint.listen(async (request) => {
  const headers = await request.reader.readHeader();
  await request.writer.writeHeader([
    {
      name: new TextEncoder().encode(":status"),
      value: new TextEncoder().encode("204"),
    },
  ]);
  await request.writer.close();
});

For Request -> Response, use Service:

const service = new Service()
  .get("/hello", () => new Response("hello"))
  .fallback(() => new Response("not found", { status: 404 }));

endpoint.listen(service);

Service is a callable raw handler created with new Service(). Service.from(handler) converts a high-level Fetch handler into a service.

Node raw request connection context

UnresolvedRequest does not expose connection, but it remains an aggregate raw request context. Need identity information through explicit connection endpoints:

await request.localAuthority();
await request.remoteAuthority();

The accepted peer connection context is not an owner Connection handle and is not exposed as one.

Node RequestInit policy fields

credentials, cache, mode, keepalive, and priority preserve standard Request shape but currently do not provide browser cookie/cache/CORS/page-lifecycle behavior. Endpoint identity is endpoint/connection configuration and is not controlled by Request.credentials.

Non-empty integrity is not supported. window must be unset or null.

Python SDK

Python root dhttp follows aiohttp for high-level client and server APIs. Raw DHTTP message primitives live under dhttp.raw.

Python client

endpoint = await dhttp.Endpoint.create(dns_schemes=["h3", "mdns", "system"])

async with endpoint.post("https://peer.example/items", json={"name": "reimu"}) as response:
    data = await response.json()

Python raw server

async def raw_handler(request: dhttp.raw.UnresolvedRequest) -> None:
    await request.writer.write_header([dhttp.raw.HeaderField(b":status", b"204")])
    await request.writer.close()

handle = endpoint.listen(raw_handler)

Python high-level server

service = dhttp.Service().get("/hello", lambda request: dhttp.Response.text("hello"))
handle = endpoint.listen(service)

Python raw primitives

dhttp.raw.Connection.open_request() returns aggregate UnresolvedRequest, which keeps local_authority() / remote_authority() endpoint accessors. MessageReader exposes read_header(), read_data(), and stop(code). MessageWriter exposes write_header(headers), write_data(data), flush(), close(), and reset(code).

Python breaking changes

Removed Python public names: EndpointOptions, ReadStream, WriteStream, IncomingStream, StreamPair, LocalAuthorityImpl, RemoteAuthorityImpl, open_request_stream, listen_streams, read_header_frame, read_data_frame_chunk, send_header, and send_data.

Use keyword arguments to Endpoint.create(...), dhttp.raw primitives, Connection.open_request(), Endpoint.listen(...), MessageReader.read_*, and MessageWriter.write_* instead.