What is the delphi web script web part?

Question

Currently, I am starting to integrate "Delphi Web Script" in my application mainly only as a scripting mechanism (pairing with functions, classes, etc.); amazing software for standard quality open source delphi, in my opinion, but only for curiosity,

What exactly is the "web part" of the project?

How is it supposed to be used?

Was it used somewhere with some success commercially?

Thanks!

Answer 1

As already mentioned, the initial use was for PHP-like ASP-like server web pages, but it was also available for general use, for which I used it. And since I did not use the "web side" of DWScript, most of the "web-oriented" functions were not ported (in fact, only the HTML filter was actually ported).

Web functionality is still available in the SourceForge repository if anyone wants to tackle this port. Although, they may be obsolete with simple renamed methods and classes, since the script engine received various functions with DWSII. For example, now it is capable of multithreaded execution of a single compiled script, while the old code base is built around a restriction that a compiled script can only run one thread at a time.

On the other hand, there are several new features that could simplify porting; a simple recently added demo version of WebServer uses RTTI to publish TWebResponse and TWebRequest fi (it was manually opened in DWSII). On the downside, this is only possible with recent versions of Delphi.

Answer 2

AFAIK, the main focus of the original author of this scripting engine was to embed Pascal scripts in HTML pages, just like PHP does. Hence the name "Delphi Web Script". The focus of the current support, Eric Grange , uses it as a general-purpose scripting mechanism, it can still be used for web purposes - for this you use the library's "filters" function. Check the dwsHtmlFilter block for the HTML filter.