If you need to accept incoming data into your application or host data from your module over HTTP, you can use web actions to create HTTP endpoints within the Sirportly application which execute your own code.

class Deliver < Module

  add_web_action "accept_mail" do |config, account, request|
    ## This method must return a hash with the return data as outlined below
    {:status => 200, :header => {'Content-Type' => 'text/plain'}, :body => "Hello!"}
  end

end

Once the web action has been defined it can be accessed by visiting yoursupportdomain.com/modules/deliver/accept_mail, replacing 'deliver' with the name of your module and 'accept_mail' with the method name you specified when you added the add_web_action method.

Using add_web_action

The add_web_action method accepts one parameter which is the path to itself after 'modules/module_name'. It may include slashes if appropriate. There is no built in restriction of HTTP method although, for example, you could use request.post? to determine if the request was a POST request.

When the block is executed, it is passed three parameters:

• config - contains a hash of the configuration for the account. See the configuration page for further details.
• account - the account object for the domain which has been accessed
• request - an ActionDispatch::Request instance for the current request

The block must return a hash containing the :status as a numeric HTTP status code, :headers: which is a hash of HTTP headers and body which is a string of data to be sent back. Alternatively, you can return false which will return a 400 Bad Request status with no body.