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=head1 Name

resty-cli - Fancy command-line utilities for OpenResty.


=head1 Description

The C<resty> command-line utility can be used to run OpenResty's Lua scripts directly off the command-line just like the C<lua> or C<luajit> command-line utilities. It can be used to create various command-line utilities using OpenResty Lua.

This tool works by creating a head-less C<nginx> instance,
disabling L<daemon|http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#daemon>, L<master_process|http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#master_process>, L<access_log|http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_log_module.html#access_log>, and other things it does
not need. No C<server {}> is configured hence I<no> listening sockets
are involved at all.

The Lua code is initiated by the L<init_worker_by_lua|https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#init_worker_by_lua>
directive and run in the context of L<ngx.timer|https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#ngxtimerat> callback. So all of
L<ngx_lua|https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#readme>'s Lua APIs available in the L<ngx.timer|https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#ngxtimerat> callback context are
also available in the C<resty> utility. We may remove some of the
remaining limitations in the future though.


=head1 Videos


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YouTube video "L<OpenResty's resty Command-Line Utility Demo|https://youtu.be/L1c7aw4mSOo>"

[!L<OpenResty's resty Command-Line Utility Demo|https://img.youtube.com/vi/L1c7aw4mSOo/0.jpg>](https://youtu.be/L1c7aw4mSOo)


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=head1 Synopsis


    $ export PATH=/usr/local/openresty/bin:$PATH
    
    $ which resty
    /usr/local/openresty/bin/resty
    
    $ resty -h
    resty [options] [lua-file [args]]
    
    Options:
        -c NUM              Set maximal connection count (default: 64).
        -e PROG             Run the inlined Lua code in "prog".
    
        --errlog-level LEVEL
                            Set nginx error_log level.
                            Can be debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, alert,
                            or emerg.
    
        --gdb               Use GDB to run the underlying nginx C process.
    
        --gdb-opts OPTS     Pass extra command-line options to GDB.
    
        --help              Print this help.
    
        --http-conf CONF    Specifies nginx.conf snippet inserted into the http {}
                            configuration block (multiple instances are supported).
    
        --http-include PATH Include the specified file in the nginx http
                            configuration block (multiple instances are supported).
    
        -I DIR              Add dir to the search paths for Lua libraries.
    
        -j dump             Use LuaJIT's jit.dump module to output detailed info of
                            the traces generated by the JIT compiler.
    
        -j off              Turn off the LuaJIT JIT compiler.
    
        -j v                Use LuaJIT's jit.v module to output brief info of the
                            traces generated by the JIT compiler.
    
        -l LIB              Require library "lib".
    
        --main-conf CONF    Specifies nginx.conf snippet inserted into the nginx
                            main {} configuration block (multiple instances are
                            supported).
    
        --main-include PATH Include the specified file in the nginx main
                            configuration block (multiple instances are supported).
    
        --nginx             Specify the nginx path (this option might be removed
                            in the future).
    
        --no-stream         Disable the stream {} configuration in auto-generated
                            nginx.conf.
    
        --ns IP             Specify a custom name server (multiple instances are
                            supported).
    
        --resolve-ipv6      Make the nginx resolver lookup both IPv4 and IPv6
                            addresses.
    
        --rr                Use Mozilla rr to record the execution of the
                            underlying nginx C process.
    
        --shdict 'NAME SIZE'
                            Create the specified lua shared dicts in the http
                            configuration block (multiple instances are supported).
    
        --stap
                            Use sysetmtap to run the underlying nginx C process.
    
        --stap-opts OPTS
                            Pass extra systemtap command line options.
    
        -V                  Print version numbers and nginx configurations.
    
        --valgrind          Use valgrind to run nginx.
    
        --valgrind-opts OPTS
                            Pass extra options to valgrind.
    
    For bug reporting instructions, please see:
    
        <https://openresty.org/en/community.html>
    
    Copyright (C) Yichun Zhang (agentzh). All rights reserved.
    
    $ resty -e 'print("hello")'
    hello
    
    $ time resty -e 'ngx.sleep(3) print("done\n")'
    done
    
    real 0m3.085s
    user 0m0.071s
    sys 0m0.010s
    
    $ resty -e 'ngx.say(ngx.md5("hello"))'
    5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592
    
    $ resty -e 'io.stderr:write("hello world\n")' > /dev/null
    hello world

To run the code example in L<lua-resty-mysql|https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-mysql>'s
"Synopsis" documentation section:


    $ resty mysql-example.lua
    connected to mysql.
    table cats created.
    3 rows inserted into table cats (last insert id: 1)
    result: [{"name":"Bob","id":"1"},{"name":"","id":"2"},{"name":null,"id":"3"}]

where C<mysql-example.lua> is from L<lua-resty-mysql|https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-mysql>'s docs.

Stdin also works (in addition to stdout and stderr):


    $ resty -e 'print("got: ", io.stdin:read("*l"))'
    hiya
    got: hiya

where the first "hiya" line was entered from the keyboard.

"Light threads" also work:


    $ time resty -e 'local ths = {}
                     for i = 1, 3 do
                         ths[i] = ngx.thread.spawn(function ()
                                      ngx.sleep(3) ngx.say("done ", i)
                                  end)
                     end
                     for i = 1, #ths do ngx.thread.wait(ths[i]) end'
    done 1
    done 2
    done 3
    
    real 0m3.073s
    user 0m0.053s
    sys 0m0.015s

User command-line arguments are also passed:


    $ resty -e 'print(arg[1], ", ", arg[2])' hello world
    hello, world

If you need to use a shared dict:


    $ resty --shdict='dogs 1m' -e 'local dict = ngx.shared.dogs
                                   dict:set("Tom", 56)
                                   print(dict:get("Tom"))'
    56

To check version numbers:


    $ resty -V
    resty 0.01
    nginx version: openresty/1.7.7.2
    built by gcc 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7) (GCC)
    TLS SNI support enabled
    configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/openresty/nginx ...




=head1 New Lua API

When Lua scripts are run by the C<resty> utility, the C<ngx.config.is_console>
field will be set to C<true>, so that the Lua scripts have a chance to know
that they are running in the console environment where stdin, stdout, stderr,
and etc are all available to them.




=head1 Installation

The C<resty> command-line utility is bundled and enabled in OpenResty 1.7.7.2+ by
default and is installed under C<< <openresty-prefix>/bin/ >> by default.
If the OpenResty prefix is the default value (C</usr/local/openresty>),
then you can just add C</usr/local/openresty/bin> to your PATH environment:


    export PATH=/usr/local/openresty/bin:$PATH

If you are using the official OpenResty
L<pre-built Linux packages|https://openresty.org/en/linux-packages.html>, you should install the
L<openresty-resty|https://openresty.org/en/rpm-packages.html#openresty-resty> package and/or
the L<openresty-doc|https://openresty.org/en/rpm-packages.html#openresty-doc> (or C<openresty-restydoc> on
Debian/Ubuntu) package
since the L<openresty|https://openresty.org/en/rpm-packages.html#openresty> binary package itself does not
contain the C<resty> or C<restydoc> utilities.




=head1 Test Suite

This project comes with a test suite powered by Perl's testing toolchain.

To run the test suite on your side, first install some of the CPAN modules required by the test
scaffold:


    sudo cpan Test::Base IPC::Run

Also, you need to make your nginx executable visible in your PATH environment:


    export PATH=/path/to/your/nginx/sbin:$PATH

Then you can run the tests with the C<prove> command provided by Perl:


    prove -r t

To run an individual test file, just specify the test file on the command-line, for instance,


    prove t/resty/user-args.t

To run an individual test case in a test file, just (temporarily) add the line


    --- ONLY

to the end of that test block, then run that particular test file as mentioned above.




=head1 Authors


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Yichun Zhang (agentzh) E<lt>agentzh@gmail.comE<gt>, CloudFlare Inc.


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Guanlan Dai E<lt>guanlan@cloudflare.comE<gt>, CloudFlare Inc.


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=head1 Copyright and License

This module is licensed under the BSD license.

Copyright (C) 2014-2020, by Yichun "agentzh" Zhang (章亦春) E<lt>yichun@openresty.comE<gt>, OpenResty Inc.
Copyright (C) 2014-2016, by Guanlan Dai.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:


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Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.


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Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.


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