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Suave as a service with Topshelf

on FSharp, Topshelf, Suave

As you can read in Topshelf F# api improved I started working on a demo, but it magically grown to include a change to the Topshelf.FSharp project. The good part with this is that to run Suave with Topshelf as a Windows service have never been easier than now. The example code will be made available official examples for Suave, I hope, but meanwhile you can find the code on github.

The code <tl;dr;>

open Suave
open Suave.Http.Successful
open Suave.Web 
open Suave.Http
open Suave.Http.Applicatives
open Suave.Http.Successful
open Topshelf
open System
open System.Threading

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv = 
    printfn "%A" argv

    let cancellationTokenSource = ref None

    let home = choose [path "/" >>= GET >>= OK "Hello world"]
    let mind = choose [path "/mind" >>= GET >>= OK "Where is my mind?"]
    let app = choose [ home; mind ]

    let start hc = 
        let cts = new CancellationTokenSource()
        let token = cts.Token
        let config = { defaultConfig with cancellationToken = token}

        startWebServerAsync config app
        |> snd
        |> Async.StartAsTask 
        |> ignore

        cancellationTokenSource := Some cts
        true

    let stop hc = 
        match !cancellationTokenSource with
        | Some cts -> cts.Cancel()
        | None -> ()
        true

    Service.Default 
    |> display_name "ServiceDisplayName"
    |> instance_name "ServiceName"
    |> with_start start
    |> with_stop stop
    |> with_topshelf

What is going on?

I don't think the code need much explanation, but here are some lines. First we create a CancellationToken which we pass to the start function. The stop can then use the CancellationTokenSource to cancel the async operation that we start in the start function. Right before start we define our Suave app, it consist of two web parts, home and mind which are combined to one app in app. When the start and stop functions are defined it is trivial to use the new updated version of Topshelf.FSharp to run the suave application as a service.