html forms using Lua

uppal.samar · 2015-04-20T16:09:15+00:00

Hello! On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:17 AM, joe wrote: > Our team is doing a poc using aerospike's lua client and openresty. I am > aware that their c cl...

html forms using Lua

uppal.samar

Hi,

Openresty is fantastic for consuming and returning simple json/html. But writing and outputting complex html forms using the ngx.say() directive is a bit tedious. Anyone knows of an easier solution if we want to use openresty to build and consume complex html forms.

Thanks,

bogdan

Hello

Maybe using a templating engine would help simplifying things and would also separate the logic part from the presentation part.
There are a few templating engines on OpenResty. We've used with success this one: https://github.com/bungle/lua-resty-template

Bogdan

Samarjit Uppal wrote:

Hi,

Openresty is fantastic for consuming and returning simple json/html.
But writing and outputting complex html forms using the ngx.say()
directive is a bit tedious. Anyone knows of an easier solution if we
want to use openresty to build and consume complex html forms.

Thanks,
S.

uppal.samar

Thanks much Bogdan. Will try that out.

On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 1:42:43 PM UTC+5:30, bogdan wrote:

Hello

Maybe using a templating engine would help simplifying things and would also separate the logic part from the presentation part.
There are a few templating engines on OpenResty. We've used with success this one: https://github.com/bungle/lua-resty-template

Bogdan

Samarjit Uppal wrote:

Hi,

Openresty is fantastic for consuming and returning simple json/html.
But writing and outputting complex html forms using the ngx.say()
directive is a bit tedious. Anyone knows of an easier solution if we
want to use openresty to build and consume complex html forms.

Thanks,
S.