ring-http-exchange

Clojure ring adapter for com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer which is included in the JDK.

The main motivation for this is to support starting a small HTTP server inside an application which itself isn't necessary primarily a web app, while avoiding adding any new major dependencies on the classpath.

Installation

Add ring-http-exchange to dependency list

[org.clojars.jj/ring-http-exchange "1.2.14"]

Usage

(:require [ring-http-exchange.core :as server])

(server/run-http-server
  (fn [_]
    {:status 200
     :headers {"Content-Type" "text/html; charset=utf-8"}
     :body "hello world"})
  {:port 8080
   :ssl-context (ssl/keystore->ssl-context 
                                      (io/resource "keystore.jks") "keystore-password"
                                      (io/resource "truststore.jks") "truststore-password")
   :executor (Executors/newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor)})

Supported response body types

Response Body Type
java.lang.String
java.io.InputStream
java.io.File
byte[]
ring.core.protocols/StreamableResponseBody

Server configuration

Property	Description	Default value
host	Host name	0.0.0.0
port	Application port	8080
executor	Executor to be used	newThreadPerTaskExecutor
ssl-context	Ssl context to be used in https configurator	nil
record-support?	Can use records as a response	true

Performance Tips

Executor

To increase performance you can pick executor depending on the use case

Use case	Executor
Throughput	Executors/newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor
Latency	NioEventLoopGroup

Robaho httpserver

Robaho httpserver can be added to the dependency list, which is a drop-in replacement for a com.sun.net.httpserver

[io.github.robaho/httpserver "1.0.29"]

License

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.