Server work group, new focus areas

Server Development
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This is not done yet (SR-1573). It would be great if someone from the community wants to work on implementing this.

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Thanks for clarifying :) I've got very limited rails experience so it's good to have someone else to fill in the gaps

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That's great! Yes, I agree. Especially since it's a two year old ticket :broken_heart:
I'll see what I can do about that.

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I want to add another thing that would be good to have, and having it in Swift #first would be setting a good path.

w3c has recently profiled the concept of Server Timing, i.e. standardised way by which server can report request timing to the client. You can think of it as a low level APM approach.

Here is the spec Server Timing

And here is an example of how it might look:

EXAMPLE 1
> GET /resource HTTP/1.1
> Host: example.com

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server-Timing: miss, db;dur=53, app;dur=47.2
< Server-Timing: customView, dc;desc=atl
< Server-Timing: cache;desc="Cache Read";dur=23.2
< Trailer: Server-Timing
< (... snip response body ...)
< Server-Timing: total;dur=123.4
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I would like to add a new type to the list: an CLI argument parser library. Currently there are two popular argument parser libraries in the Swift ecosystem:

Both of them are very opinionated or do not include all the basic options required by a general purpose argument parser library (for example, CommandLine does not include positional arguments; Commander requires you to embed the main code into a completion). Also, CommandLine is no longer maintained and has been archived.

I think Swift should have a common and well-maintained general purpose argument parser library similar to argparse in Python.

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There is another called Guaka which I am a bit of a fan of. I’m writing from mobile so i won’t go into much detail about it, but when I was searching for CLI parsers in swift I tried out Commander, CommandLine, and Guaka and I liked Guaka the best.

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There's also Vapor's console / command package Console.

https://docs.vapor.codes/3.0/console/overview/

That's what we use for Vapor's CLI tool Vapor Toolbox and also in Vapor itself for things like booting the HTTP server or running database migrations.

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I'd like to draw your attention to my SwiftNIO-based FoundationDB client — GitHub - kirilltitov/FDBSwift: FoundationDB client for Swift. I'm aware of the official client, but it doesn't seem to be updated so often (unlike mine). Additionally, I actively use my implementation in real business tasks, so it might become officially stable in nearest future. A little bit of rivalry is always good :slight_smile:

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thanks @kirilltitov, how about putting together a pitch?

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I'm not sure, honestly. I'm afraid the pitch would result in a discussion hell.

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May I also request for FIrebird SQL, please? It's quite popular among Pascal (such as Free Pascal and Delphi) developers all around the world. I've been using it on many platforms for quite a long time and I found it as a very excellent RDBMS.

Thank you.

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It's not that bad. I just did it.You get to propose the initial scope of everything, and yeah its discussion oriented but it's not bad

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I agree. If there is anyone out there that is looking to start on a pure-swift RabbitMQ Package, I would love to contribute.

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