Classes

Application class. Brings together all the components of Hummingbird together

Create an HBApplication, setup your application middleware, encoders, routes etc and then call start to start the server and wait to wait until the server is stopped.

let app = HBApplication()
app.middleware.add(MyMiddleware())
app.get("hello") { _ in
    return "hello"
}
app.start()
app.wait()

Editing the application setup after calling start will produce undefined behaviour.

Group of middleware that can be used to create a responder chain. Each middleware calls the next one

Current date cache.

Getting the current date formatted is an expensive operation. This creates a scheduled task that will update a cached version of the date in the format as detailed in RFC1123 once every second. To avoid threading issues it is assumed that currentDate will only every be accessed on the same EventLoop that the update is running.