About Routing

Traditionally, frameworks create different categories of scenarios to expose different protocols. This leads to extra complexity and hinders extensibility.

Endpoints

An endpoint is a callable that accepts a request object, and returns a response (TODO: figure out what this response is!). Every endpoint needs to be registered against the Router with a UID, and aliases if needed.

Protocols

A protocol is an adapter to the external world. Currently the following are supported:

• HTTP
• Async (through redis & a relational store) Future candidates include WebSockets, Emails, Sms, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Spark.

An application can then mount (expose) these aliases or UIDs on various protocols.

Through these UID & aliases, the endpoint can be mounted in the router.