Laravel 5.x -> appserver.io integration

Introduction

This is a first approach, to wrap Laravel 5.x in a native appserver.io Application that takes advantage ouf of the possiblity to pre-load/bootstrap the framework once on appserver.io startup. All incoming request will only need to be dispatched then, what probably will improve performance.

As the actual pthreads version appserver.io uses is not able to handle closures, this is only a NOT WORKING idea, that hopefully will work with appserver.io > 1.1. If you'll try this in the actual version, you'll receive a PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Serialization of 'Closure' is not allowed' in /opt/appserver/vendor/appserver-io-labs/laravel-application/src/AppserverIo/Labs/Laravel/Application.php:191 on application server startup.

Issues

In order to bundle our efforts we would like to collect all issues regarding this package in the main project repository's issue tracker. Please reference the originating repository as the first element of the issue title e.g.: [appserver-io/<ORIGINATING_REPO>] A issue I am having

Installation

To install the necessary classes, simply do the following, assumed you're on Linux or Mac OS X

$ cd /opt/appserver
$ bin/php bin/composer.phar require appserver-io-labs/laravel-application dev-master

After that install Laravel in the application servers document root and save the following content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<context 
    name="globalBaseContext" 
    factory="AppserverIo\Labs\Laravel\ApplicationFactory" 
    type="AppserverIo\Labs\Laravel\Application" 
    xmlns="http://www.appserver.io/appserver">
    <classLoaders>
        <classLoader
            name="DgClassLoader"
            interface="ClassLoaderInterface"
            type="AppserverIo\Appserver\Core\ComposerClassLoader"
            factory="AppserverIo\Appserver\Core\ComposerClassLoaderFactory">
            <directories>
                <directory>/vendor</directory>
            </directories>
        </classLoader>
    </classLoaders>
</context>

to the META-INF/context.xml file of your application, e. g. /opt/appserver/webapps/laravel/META-INF/context.xml, assuming your Laravel application has the name laravel.

Restart the application server, and you're all set!

External Links

• Documentation at appserver.io