Common Lisp REST Server

rest-server is a library for writing REST Web APIs in Common Lisp

⚠️ WARNING
This project's documentation is outdated and cannot be relied on.
Not everything works. The project needs to be better maintained.

Install

The library is available at Ultralisp.

Documentation

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Features

• Method matching

  • Based on HTTP method (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE)
  • Based on Accept request header
  • URL parsing (argument types)

• Serialization

  • Different serialization types (JSON, XML, S-expressions)

• Error handling

  • Development and production modes
  • HTTP status codes

• Validation via schemas

• Annotations for api logging, caching, permission checking, and more.

• Authentication

  • Different methods (token based, oauth)

• API client

  • Generation of API client functions via macros

• Alpha OpenAPI support

  • Parse Open API v3 apis and generate Lisp API spec from it

• APIs documentation

  • Via Swagger: http://swagger.wordnik.com

Demo

• Basic service
• OpenAPI service