Sheddy

Sheddy is a simple wrapper for Jetty. It allows you to

• Create a (simple) Jetty server with minimal overhead
• Handle web requests directly with Scala functions

This was inspired by the difficulty encountered in mocking out various portions of the Servlet milieu. With Sheddy you can start the actual server and run tests against a live Jetty/Servlet environment.

Note that you can provide your own Server object to Sheddy, and you can attach function handlers to your own handler chain, allowing you to simulate your production server fairly easily.

As an example, the following code starts a server on port 8080 and prints the path back out to the requester

import com.twitter.sheddy._
import org.mortbay.jetty._

object SheddyExample {
  val server = new Sheddy(8080, { case (path, request, response) => {
    val out = response.getWriter()
    response.setStatus(200)
    out.write("got path " + path)
    out.close
  }})
  ... do stuff to the server here ...
  // now destroy server
  server.stop
}

More examples can be found in src/examples.

Disclaimer

This code is extremely minimally tested. Depending on how useful I find the package I may or may not beef up the test suite.

Credits

Inspired by the awfulness that is trying to implement a to-spec OAuth server with the Servlet API and Jetty.