Request and Response

In the previous chapter we saw how endpoints are simply functions that take a Request and return a Response, or more accurately they return a Result of something that implements Into<Response>.

#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
async fn endpoint(request: tide::Request) -> tide::Result<impl Into<Response>>
}

The Request struct contains the parsed HTTP request; the URL, HTTP headers, cookies and query string parameters. Additionally the Request object in Tide is used to pass information about the application state and the request state to the endpoint. We will look into this in the next chapter about how Tide manages State.

The Response struct in turn allows us to craft a complete HTTP response. It contains the Response body, but also a set of HTTP headers and a response code. While the Response struct can be created, accessed and modified directly, it can be convenient to create a Response through the Tide ResponseBuilder.