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Ryelang - controlled file serving example and comparison to Python


This is as anecdotal as it gets, but basic HTTP serving functions in Rye seem to be working quite OK. They do directly use the extremely solid Go's HTTP functions, so that should be somewhat expected.

I made a ryelang.org web-server with few lines of Rye code 3 months ago and the process was running ever since and served more than 30.000 pages. If not else, it  seems there are no inherent memory leaks in Rye interpreter. Those would probably show up in a 3 month long running process?

And now I got another simple project. I needed to make a HTTP API for some mobile app. API should accept a key, and return / download a binary file in response if the key is correct. Otherwise it should return a HTTP error.

So I strapped in and created Rye code below. I think I only needed to add generic methods stat and size?, all other were already implemented, which is a good sign.



Of course, we are in an age of ChatGPT, so I used it to generate the equivalent  Python code. It used the elegant Flask framework to do it. If I ever wanted to serve something via HTTP with Python in last 10 years I also used Flask. It's nice and minimalistic.

I removed the comments above, and this are the Python and Rye examples side by side:


If we delve a little deeper into both examples, we notice that Rye example uses lower level concepts to serve the HTTP. 

  • Flask routes are determined by the decorator pattern over handler functions - Rye explicitly defines the routes on the server object.
  • Flask response is generated directly from the handler function return value and status code - Rye uses a response writer, that handler can use to set headers and write response content to.
  • Flask has a specialized function to return a binary file send_file (I assume without loading it into memory) - In Rye we manually set the correct headers and used a general IO function copy to copy file reader into response writer (also not loading the file into memory) ... it directly mimics the Go way.

And I think this is correct. Rye here uses it's basic language level functions which should be opinion-neutral and use generic lower level mechanisms that multiple opinionated higher level frameworks or libraries can then be built upon. 

I am not about to build a web-framework for this, but taking some inspiration from the Flask example, I saw I could make my little "nano-framework" by creating just two functions: respond and send-file

So after I made these two functions, Rye code becomes quite clean and nice:

And these two functions are simple and straightforward.


Ok. This is it. I hope you understood the examples. If you want the real code, not these screenshots please visit our Github repo and check out folder examples/webserver. 

I lately post regular development updates on Rye's reddit group, so please come by and become a member. :)

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