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This is the eleventh in a planned series of posts (well, twelfth if you count the announcement) where I'll share my experience writing smolver, my Gemini server software, written in Swift.
You can find the previous iterations below.
I skipped a writeup like this one for v1.2.1, instead opting for just a Public Service Announcement
Configurable support for the 30 REDIRECT - TEMPORARY response code -- only permanent redirects were configurable previously
Configurable support for the 41 SERVER UNAVAILABLE response code
Configurable support for the 52 GONE response code
Added note to documentation / README on which status codes smolver does not directly support - only 10 INPUT, 11 SENSITIVE INPUT, and 43 PROXY ERROR. If you need to return any of these, return it from a CGI script as needed.
Configuration for default response language for text/gemini files, with ability to override as needed
Minor performance enhancement - .smol.json configuration files will now only be read from disk once per request. Request processing happens almost instantaneously and so re-reading from disk multiple times per request to check for any configured overrides seemed wasteful. smolver still supports modifying / adding / deleting this file while running, just no inter-request caching.
Removed non-utf-8 support from backlog, including references to future plans for such from code and documentation
Reprioritize bug fixes and refactorings in backlog to come after the rest of the planned features
Added backlog item to investigate slow compile times, especially when including unit tests
Expand backlog with plans to verify and fix suspected defect in CGI support
Rewrite mime type data structures, enabling the rest of the below items in this list
Determine mime type for returned files based on system /etc/mime.types file
Added a few new unit tests
Configurable support for overriding the mime type in the response header
Expanded CGI response support to any text/* mime type -- only text/gemini, text/markdown, text/plain, and text/x-python were supported previously
.smol.json configuration of language and mime type overrides do not apply to subdirectories unless you duplicate the configuration in every subdirectory. Need to detect this scenario automatically so you won't have to duplicate your configuration(s).
Overall, these features required only minor code changes.
Running cloc on smolver production code v1.2.1 returns:
$ cloc Sources
25 text files.
25 unique files.
0 files ignored.
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.86 T=0.16 s (156.4 files/s, 18847.4 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Swift 25 381 668 1964
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SUM: 25 381 668 1964
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Running cloc on smolver production code v1.3.0 returns:
$ cloc Sources
25 text files.
25 unique files.
0 files ignored.
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.86 T=0.18 s (139.2 files/s, 18057.9 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Swift 25 439 668 2135
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SUM: 25 439 668 2135
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Running cloc on smolver test code v1.2.1 returns:
$ cloc Tests
17 text files.
17 unique files.
0 files ignored.
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.86 T=0.21 s (80.0 files/s, 23139.7 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Swift 12 732 466 3645
Bourne Shell 4 9 0 34
Python 1 7 0 23
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SUM: 17 748 466 3702
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Running cloc on smolver test code v1.3.0 returns:
$ cloc Tests
18 text files.
18 unique files.
0 files ignored.
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.86 T=0.24 s (76.3 files/s, 21454.5 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Swift 13 759 491 3741
Bourne Shell 4 9 0 34
Python 1 7 0 23
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SUM: 18 775 491 3798
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That is a net change of 171 lines to smolver production code, 96 lines to smolver unit tests, for a total increase of 267 lines.
I have also found a new feature in the cloc CLI program, which generated the above data: you can point it to two git references and it'll show you data from the changeset! Naturally, I have included that below:
cloc --git --diff v1.2.1 v1.3.0
31 text files.
32 text files.
4 files ignored.
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.86 T=2.57 s (18.3 files/s, 2457.1 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Swift
same 0 0 357 1763
modified 11 0 9 93
added 6 284 167 1463
removed 5 199 142 1196
Markdown
same 0 0 0 244
modified 3 0 0 23
added 6 29 0 157
removed 6 3 0 39
Bourne Shell
same 0 0 0 0
modified 0 0 0 0
added 4 9 0 34
removed 4 9 0 34
Python
same 0 0 0 0
modified 0 0 0 0
added 1 7 0 23
removed 1 7 0 23
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SUM:
same 0 0 357 2007
modified 14 0 9 116
added 17 329 167 1677
removed 16 218 142 1292
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None of these numbers includes smolver's dependencies, including but not limited to SocketServer & BlueSSLService.
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