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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Martin Willi
+ * Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+ * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+ * option) any later version.  See <http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.txt>.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
+ * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * for more details.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @defgroup libfast libfast
+ * @{
+ * FastCGI Application Server w/ templates.
+ *
+ * Libfast is a framework to write web applications in an MVC fashion. It uses
+ * the ClearSilver template engine and communicates through FastCGI with
+ * the webserver. It is multithreaded and really fast.
+ *
+ * The application has a global context and a session context. The global
+ * context is accessed from all sessions simultaneously and therefore
+ * needs to be threadsave. Often a database wrapper is the global context.
+ * The session context is instanciated per session. Sessions are managed
+ * automatically through session cookies. The session context is kept alive
+ * until the session times out. It must implement the context_t interface and
+ * a #fast_context_constructor_t is needed to create instances. To each session,
+ * a set of controllers gets instanciated. The controller instances are per
+ * session, so you can hold private data for each user.
+ * Controllers need to implement the controller_t interface and need a
+ * #fast_controller_constructor_t function to create instances.
+ *
+ * A small example shows how to set up libfast:
+ * @code
+	fast_fast_dispatcher_t *dispatcher;
+	your_global_context_implementation_t *global;
+
+	global = initialize_your_global_context();
+
+	dispatcher = fast_dispatcher_create(NULL, FALSE, 180,
+			(context_constructor_t)your_session_context_create, global);
+	dispatcher->add_controller(dispatcher, your_controller1_create, param1);
+	dispatcher->add_controller(dispatcher, your_controller2_create, param2);
+
+	dispatcher->run(dispatcher, 20);
+
+	dispatcher->waitsignal(dispatcher);
+
+	dispatcher->destroy(dispatcher);
+	global->destroy();
+   @endcode
+ * @}
+ *
+ * @defgroup fast_dispatcher fast_dispatcher
+ * @{ @ingroup libfast
+ */
+
+#ifndef FAST_DISPATCHER_H_
+#define FAST_DISPATCHER_H_
+
+#include "fast_controller.h"
+#include "fast_filter.h"
+
+typedef struct fast_dispatcher_t fast_dispatcher_t;
+
+/**
+ * Dispatcher, accepts connections using multiple threads.
+ *
+ * The dispatcher creates a session for each client (using SID cookies). In
+ * each session, a session context is created using the context constructor.
+ * Each controller is instanciated in the session using the controller
+ * constructor added with add_controller.
+ */
+struct fast_dispatcher_t {
+
+	/**
+	 * Register a controller to the dispatcher.
+	 *
+	 * The first controller added serves as default controller. Client's
+	 * get redirected to it if no other controller matches.
+	 *
+	 * @param constructor	constructor function to the conntroller
+	 * @param param			param to pass to constructor
+	 */
+	void (*add_controller)(fast_dispatcher_t *this,
+						   fast_controller_constructor_t constructor,
+						   void *param);
+
+	/**
+	 * Add a filter to the dispatcher.
+	 *
+	 * @param constructor	constructor to create filter in session
+	 * @param param			param to pass to constructor
+	 */
+	void (*add_filter)(fast_dispatcher_t *this,
+					   fast_filter_constructor_t constructor, void *param);
+
+	/**
+	 * Start with dispatching.
+	 *
+	 * Instanciate a constant thread pool and start dispatching requests.
+	 *
+	 * @param threads		number of dispatching threads
+	 */
+	void (*run)(fast_dispatcher_t *this, int threads);
+
+	/**
+	 * Wait for a relevant signal action.
+	 */
+	void (*waitsignal)(fast_dispatcher_t *this);
+
+	/**
+	 * Destroy the fast_dispatcher_t.
+	 */
+	void (*destroy) (fast_dispatcher_t *this);
+};
+
+/**
+ * Create a dispatcher.
+ *
+ * The context constructor is invoked to create a session context for
+ * each session.
+ *
+ * @param socket		FastCGI socket path, NULL for dynamic
+ * @param debug			no stripping, no compression, timing information
+ * @param timeout		session timeout
+ * @param constructor	construction function for session context
+ * @param param			parameter to supply to context constructor
+ */
+fast_dispatcher_t *fast_dispatcher_create(char *socket, bool debug, int timeout,
+							fast_context_constructor_t constructor, void *param);
+
+#endif /** FAST_DISPATCHER_H_ @}*/