GroIMP comes with an basic HTTP server that allows users to open projects from a given path. The server can also manage basic additional input and the return of values to the http client.

In the following a brief start for this is given.

To start the server in GroIMP go on the main menu on Net/Open Http Server and select a port in the upcoming popup. This port is not specifically important, lets for now just use the default port suggested:“58080” (if you have another service running on this port just choose an other).

// import other compiled files (.rgg, .java, .xl) without subdirectory path.
import parameters.*;
 
import de.grogra.imp.net.*;
/***
 
A simple exampel of using the GroIMP HTTP server
 
http://localhost:58080/open?Documents/teaching/tuti/hallo_server.gsz&name=tim
 
java -jar platform.core-2.1.5-jar-with-dependencies.jar --headless -- -cmd "/http/server=58080"
 
 
 
***/
 
protected void startup()
{
	super.startup();
	HttpResponse resp = HttpResponse.get(workbench());
	if(resp!=null){
		println("test");
		runLater(resp);
	}
}
 
 
protected void run(Object info)
{
	HttpResponse resp = (HttpResponse)info; 
	StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
	buf.append("Hi ");
	buf.append(resp.getRequest().getQuery().split("&")[1].split("=")[1]);
	buf.append(", whats up ");
	resp.setContent("text/text","UTF-8",buf.toString());
	resp.send(true);
	closeWorkbench();
}

GroIMP allows users to define which of its are suppose to be executed as an commandline parameter. This allows us to start the http server headless on a port of our linking:

java -jar core.jar --headless -- -cmd "/http/server=58080"