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#![forbid(unsafe_code)]
#![deny(missing_docs)]
//! # Server Functions
//!
//! This package is based on a simple idea: sometimes it’s useful to write functions
//! that will only run on the server, and call them from the client.
//!
//! If you’re creating anything beyond a toy app, you’ll need to do this all the time:
//! reading from or writing to a database that only runs on the server, running expensive
//! computations using libraries you don’t want to ship down to the client, accessing
//! APIs that need to be called from the server rather than the client for CORS reasons
//! or because you need a secret API key that’s stored on the server and definitely
//! shouldn’t be shipped down to a user’s browser.
//!
//! Traditionally, this is done by separating your server and client code, and by setting
//! up something like a REST API or GraphQL API to allow your client to fetch and mutate
//! data on the server. This is fine, but it requires you to write and maintain your code
//! in multiple separate places (client-side code for fetching, server-side functions to run),
//! as well as creating a third thing to manage, which is the API contract between the two.
//!
//! This package provides two simple primitives that allow you instead to write co-located,
//! isomorphic server functions. (*Co-located* means you can write them in your app code so
//! that they are “located alongside” the client code that calls them, rather than separating
//! the client and server sides. *Isomorphic* means you can call them from the client as if
//! you were simply calling a function; the function call has the “same shape” on the client
//! as it does on the server.)
//!
//! ### `#[server]`
//!
//! The [`#[server]`](https://docs.rs/server_fn/latest/server_fn/attr.server.html) macro allows you to annotate a function to
//! indicate that it should only run on the server (i.e., when you have an `ssr` feature in your
//! crate that is enabled).
//!
//! **Important**: All server functions must be registered by calling [ServerFn::register_in]
//! somewhere within your `main` function.
//! **Important**: Before calling a server function on a non-web platform, you must set the server URL by calling [`set_server_url`].
//!
//! ```rust,ignore
//! #[server(ReadFromDB)]
//! async fn read_posts(how_many: usize, query: String) -> Result<Vec<Posts>, ServerFnError> {
//! // do some server-only work here to access the database
//! let posts = ...;
//! Ok(posts)
//! }
//!
//! // call the function
//! # #[tokio::main]
//! # async fn main() {
//! async {
//! let posts = read_posts(3, "my search".to_string()).await;
//! log::debug!("posts = {posts:#?}");
//! }
//! # }
//!
//! // make sure you've registered it somewhere in main
//! fn main() {
//! // for non-web apps, you must set the server URL manually
//! server_fn::set_server_url("http://localhost:3000");
//! _ = ReadFromDB::register();
//! }
//! ```
//!
//! If you call this function from the client, it will serialize the function arguments and `POST`
//! them to the server as if they were the inputs in `<form method="POST">`.
//!
//! Here’s what you need to remember:
//! - **Server functions must be `async`.** Even if the work being done inside the function body
//! can run synchronously on the server, from the client’s perspective it involves an asynchronous
//! function call.
//! - **Server functions must return `Result<T, ServerFnError>`.** Even if the work being done
//! inside the function body can’t fail, the processes of serialization/deserialization and the
//! network call are fallible.
//! - **Return types must implement [Serialize](serde::Serialize).**
//! This should be fairly obvious: we have to serialize arguments to send them to the server, and we
//! need to deserialize the result to return it to the client.
//! - **Arguments must be implement [serde::Serialize].** They are serialized as an `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`
//! form data using [`serde_urlencoded`](https://docs.rs/serde_urlencoded/latest/serde_urlencoded/) or as `application/cbor`
//! using [`cbor`](https://docs.rs/cbor/latest/cbor/).
// used by the macro
#[doc(hidden)]
pub use const_format;
use proc_macro2::TokenStream;
use quote::TokenStreamExt;
use serde::{de::DeserializeOwned, Deserialize, Serialize};
pub use server_fn_macro_default::server;
#[cfg(any(feature = "ssr", doc))]
use std::sync::Arc;
use std::{future::Future, pin::Pin, str::FromStr};
use syn::parse_quote;
use thiserror::Error;
// used by the macro
#[doc(hidden)]
pub use xxhash_rust;
#[cfg(any(feature = "ssr", doc))]
/// Something that can register a server function.
pub trait ServerFunctionRegistry<T> {
/// An error that can occur when registering a server function.
type Error: std::error::Error;
/// Registers a server function at the given URL.
fn register(
url: &'static str,
server_function: Arc<ServerFnTraitObj<T>>,
) -> Result<(), Self::Error>;
/// Returns the server function registered at the given URL, or `None` if no function is registered at that URL.
fn get(url: &str) -> Option<Arc<ServerFnTraitObj<T>>>;
/// Returns a list of all registered server functions.
fn paths_registered() -> Vec<&'static str>;
}
/// A server function that can be called from the client.
pub type ServerFnTraitObj<T> = dyn Fn(
T,
&[u8],
) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = Result<Payload, ServerFnError>>>>
+ Send
+ Sync;
/// A dual type to hold the possible Response datatypes
#[derive(Debug)]
pub enum Payload {
///Encodes Data using CBOR
Binary(Vec<u8>),
///Encodes data in the URL
Url(String),
///Encodes Data using Json
Json(String),
}
/// Attempts to find a server function registered at the given path.
///
/// This can be used by a server to handle the requests, as in the following example (using `actix-web`)
///
/// ```rust, ignore
/// #[post("{tail:.*}")]
/// async fn handle_server_fns(
/// req: HttpRequest,
/// params: web::Path<String>,
/// body: web::Bytes,
/// ) -> impl Responder {
/// let path = params.into_inner();
/// let accept_header = req
/// .headers()
/// .get("Accept")
/// .and_then(|value| value.to_str().ok());
///
/// if let Some(server_fn) = server_fn_by_path::<MyRegistry>(path.as_str()) {
/// let body: &[u8] = &body;
/// match server_fn(&body).await {
/// Ok(serialized) => {
/// // if this is Accept: application/json then send a serialized JSON response
/// if let Some("application/json") = accept_header {
/// HttpResponse::Ok().body(serialized)
/// }
/// // otherwise, it's probably a <form> submit or something: redirect back to the referrer
/// else {
/// HttpResponse::SeeOther()
/// .insert_header(("Location", "/"))
/// .content_type("application/json")
/// .body(serialized)
/// }
/// }
/// Err(e) => {
/// eprintln!("server function error: {e:#?}");
/// HttpResponse::InternalServerError().body(e.to_string())
/// }
/// }
/// } else {
/// HttpResponse::BadRequest().body(format!("Could not find a server function at that route."))
/// }
/// }
/// ```
#[cfg(any(feature = "ssr", doc))]
pub fn server_fn_by_path<T: 'static, R: ServerFunctionRegistry<T>>(
path: &str,
) -> Option<Arc<ServerFnTraitObj<T>>> {
R::get(path)
}
/// Returns the set of currently-registered server function paths, for debugging purposes.
#[cfg(any(feature = "ssr", doc))]
pub fn server_fns_by_path<T: 'static, R: ServerFunctionRegistry<T>>(
) -> Vec<&'static str> {
R::paths_registered()
}
/// Holds the current options for encoding types.
/// More could be added, but they need to be serde
#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
pub enum Encoding {
/// A Binary Encoding Scheme Called Cbor
Cbor,
/// The Default URL-encoded encoding method
Url,
}
impl FromStr for Encoding {
type Err = ();
fn from_str(input: &str) -> Result<Encoding, Self::Err> {
match input {
"URL" => Ok(Encoding::Url),
"Cbor" => Ok(Encoding::Cbor),
_ => Err(()),
}
}
}
impl quote::ToTokens for Encoding {
fn to_tokens(&self, tokens: &mut TokenStream) {
let option: syn::Ident = match *self {
Encoding::Cbor => parse_quote!(Cbor),
Encoding::Url => parse_quote!(Url),
};
let expansion: syn::Ident = syn::parse_quote! {
Encoding::#option
};
tokens.append(expansion);
}
}
/// Defines a "server function." A server function can be called from the server or the client,
/// but the body of its code will only be run on the server, i.e., if a crate feature `ssr` (server-side-rendering) is enabled.
///
/// Server functions are created using the `server` macro.
///
/// The function should be registered by calling `ServerFn::register()`. The set of server functions
/// can be queried on the server for routing purposes by calling [server_fn_by_path].
///
/// Technically, the trait is implemented on a type that describes the server function's arguments.
pub trait ServerFn<T: 'static>
where
Self: Serialize + DeserializeOwned + Sized + 'static,
{
/// The return type of the function.
type Output: Serialize;
/// URL prefix that should be prepended by the client to the generated URL.
fn prefix() -> &'static str;
/// The path at which the server function can be reached on the server.
fn url() -> &'static str;
/// The path at which the server function can be reached on the server.
fn encoding() -> Encoding;
/// Runs the function on the server.
#[cfg(any(feature = "ssr", doc))]
fn call_fn(
self,
cx: T,
) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = Result<Self::Output, ServerFnError>>>>;
/// Runs the function on the client by sending an HTTP request to the server.
#[cfg(any(not(feature = "ssr"), doc))]
fn call_fn_client(
self,
cx: T,
) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = Result<Self::Output, ServerFnError>>>>;
/// Registers the server function, allowing the server to query it by URL.
#[cfg(any(feature = "ssr", doc))]
fn register_in<R: ServerFunctionRegistry<T>>() -> Result<(), ServerFnError>
{
// create the handler for this server function
// takes a String -> returns its async value
let run_server_fn = Arc::new(|cx: T, data: &[u8]| {
// decode the args
let value = match Self::encoding() {
Encoding::Url => serde_urlencoded::from_bytes(data)
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Deserialization(e.to_string())),
Encoding::Cbor => ciborium::de::from_reader(data)
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Deserialization(e.to_string())),
};
Box::pin(async move {
let value: Self = match value {
Ok(v) => v,
Err(e) => return Err(e),
};
// call the function
let result = match value.call_fn(cx).await {
Ok(r) => r,
Err(e) => return Err(e),
};
// serialize the output
let result = match Self::encoding() {
Encoding::Url => match serde_json::to_string(&result)
.map_err(|e| {
ServerFnError::Serialization(e.to_string())
}) {
Ok(r) => Payload::Url(r),
Err(e) => return Err(e),
},
Encoding::Cbor => {
let mut buffer: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
match ciborium::ser::into_writer(&result, &mut buffer)
.map_err(|e| {
ServerFnError::Serialization(e.to_string())
}) {
Ok(_) => Payload::Binary(buffer),
Err(e) => return Err(e),
}
}
};
Ok(result)
})
as Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = Result<Payload, ServerFnError>>>>
});
// store it in the hashmap
R::register(Self::url(), run_server_fn)
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Registration(e.to_string()))
}
}
/// Type for errors that can occur when using server functions.
#[derive(Error, Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub enum ServerFnError {
/// Error while trying to register the server function (only occurs in case of poisoned RwLock).
#[error("error while trying to register the server function: {0}")]
Registration(String),
/// Occurs on the client if there is a network error while trying to run function on server.
#[error("error reaching server to call server function: {0}")]
Request(String),
/// Occurs when there is an error while actually running the function on the server.
#[error("error running server function: {0}")]
ServerError(String),
/// Occurs on the client if there is an error deserializing the server's response.
#[error("error deserializing server function results {0}")]
Deserialization(String),
/// Occurs on the client if there is an error serializing the server function arguments.
#[error("error serializing server function results {0}")]
Serialization(String),
/// Occurs on the server if there is an error deserializing one of the arguments that's been sent.
#[error("error deserializing server function arguments {0}")]
Args(String),
/// Occurs on the server if there's a missing argument.
#[error("missing argument {0}")]
MissingArg(String),
}
/// Executes the HTTP call to call a server function from the client, given its URL and argument type.
#[cfg(not(feature = "ssr"))]
pub async fn call_server_fn<T, C: 'static>(
url: &str,
args: impl ServerFn<C>,
enc: Encoding,
) -> Result<T, ServerFnError>
where
T: serde::Serialize + serde::de::DeserializeOwned + Sized,
{
use ciborium::ser::into_writer;
use serde_json::Deserializer as JSONDeserializer;
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
let url = format!("{}{}", get_server_url(), url);
#[derive(Debug)]
enum Payload {
Binary(Vec<u8>),
Url(String),
}
let args_encoded = match &enc {
Encoding::Url => Payload::Url(
serde_urlencoded::to_string(&args)
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Serialization(e.to_string()))?,
),
Encoding::Cbor => {
let mut buffer: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
into_writer(&args, &mut buffer)
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Serialization(e.to_string()))?;
Payload::Binary(buffer)
}
};
let content_type_header = match &enc {
Encoding::Url => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
Encoding::Cbor => "application/cbor",
};
let accept_header = match &enc {
Encoding::Url => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
Encoding::Cbor => "application/cbor",
};
#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
let resp = match args_encoded {
Payload::Binary(b) => {
let slice_ref: &[u8] = &b;
let js_array = js_sys::Uint8Array::from(slice_ref).buffer();
gloo_net::http::Request::post(url)
.header("Content-Type", content_type_header)
.header("Accept", accept_header)
.body(js_array)
.send()
.await
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Request(e.to_string()))?
}
Payload::Url(s) => gloo_net::http::Request::post(url)
.header("Content-Type", content_type_header)
.header("Accept", accept_header)
.body(s)
.send()
.await
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Request(e.to_string()))?,
};
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
let resp = match args_encoded {
Payload::Binary(b) => CLIENT
.post(url)
.header("Content-Type", content_type_header)
.header("Accept", accept_header)
.body(b)
.send()
.await
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Request(e.to_string()))?,
Payload::Url(s) => CLIENT
.post(url)
.header("Content-Type", content_type_header)
.header("Accept", accept_header)
.body(s)
.send()
.await
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Request(e.to_string()))?,
};
// check for error status
let status = resp.status();
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
let status = status.as_u16();
if (500..=599).contains(&status) {
#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
let status_text = resp.status_text();
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
let status_text = status.to_string();
return Err(ServerFnError::ServerError(status_text));
}
if enc == Encoding::Cbor {
#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
let binary = resp
.binary()
.await
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Deserialization(e.to_string()))?;
#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
let binary = binary.as_slice();
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
let binary = resp
.bytes()
.await
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Deserialization(e.to_string()))?;
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
let binary = binary.as_ref();
ciborium::de::from_reader(binary)
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Deserialization(e.to_string()))
} else {
let text = resp
.text()
.await
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Deserialization(e.to_string()))?;
let mut deserializer = JSONDeserializer::from_str(&text);
T::deserialize(&mut deserializer)
.map_err(|e| ServerFnError::Deserialization(e.to_string()))
}
}
// Lazily initialize the client to be reused for all server function calls.
#[cfg(any(all(not(feature = "ssr"), not(target_arch = "wasm32")), doc))]
static CLIENT: once_cell::sync::Lazy<reqwest::Client> =
once_cell::sync::Lazy::new(|| reqwest::Client::new());
#[cfg(any(all(not(feature = "ssr"), not(target_arch = "wasm32")), doc))]
static ROOT_URL: once_cell::sync::OnceCell<&'static str> =
once_cell::sync::OnceCell::new();
#[cfg(any(all(not(feature = "ssr"), not(target_arch = "wasm32")), doc))]
/// Set the root server url that all server function paths are relative to for the client. On WASM this will default to the origin.
pub fn set_server_url(url: &'static str) {
ROOT_URL.set(url).unwrap();
}
#[cfg(all(not(feature = "ssr"), not(target_arch = "wasm32")))]
fn get_server_url() -> &'static str {
ROOT_URL
.get()
.expect("Call set_root_url before calling a server function.")
}