[racket] Stateless servlets and formlets error

I just pushed a change that allows stateless and headers in web-server/test

Jay

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Lorenz Köhl <rainbowtwigs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Why does the extra lambda lead to this error message?
>>>
>>> The answer to the "WHY" is this:
>>>
>>> 2. If you inline it, or replace the f is send/form2 with
>>> 'main-input-formlet', then you are now referring to a global variable,
>>> which is never part of closures, because it is always available.
>>
>> I see, this is what confused me. Thanks for the explanation.
>>
>>> I don't think the benefits are worth it to justify things in the case
>>> of formlets, but I'm open to arguments.
>>
>> I'll make the formlets toplevel.
>>
>> The other problem I have is calling functions from the servlet that use send/suspend and friends, which expect certain continuation marks as I understand it. Is it possible to fake these for a unit test?
>
> Yes... you would want to use call-with-web-prompt from
>
> https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/web-server/lang/abort-resume.rkt
>
> And it should "just work"
>
>> Another way is to modify make-servlet-tester to not redact the response so I can test other properties like return code and headers. But I'd prefer to do it directly.
>
> I think this would be better to do. We just need to change line 24
>
> https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/web-server/test.rkt#L24
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> to support the stateless mode.
>
> And lines 53-57 to allow you to see the currently un-named part of the
> bytes (the .+ in the regexp.)
>
> Jay
>
>
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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93