Add more clarifying comments

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/main.zig b/src/main.zig
index 1e62272..f074fde 100644
--- a/src/main.zig
+++ b/src/main.zig
@@ -43,10 +43,16 @@ const buffer_limit = 1 << 21;
 /// file.stat() will return a StatError
 /// file.readAll() will return a ReadError
 fn readFiles(target: []const u8, buffer: []u8) !usize {
+    // fba_buffer is the maximum malloc size for this functiono, as it's using
+    // a Fixed Buffer Allocator. It needs to be able to contain file_path,
+    // which is max_path_bytes in size, twice over, because it may also get
+    // allocPrint'ed to if the provided target is a directory.
     var fba_buffer: [max_path_bytes * 2]u8 = undefined;
     var fba = std.heap.FixedBufferAllocator.init(&fba_buffer);
     const allocator = fba.allocator();
 
+    // `target` is relative to the root of the http server; for now, it's
+    // going to assume the root (/) is the current working directory.
     var file_path = try allocator.alloc(u8, max_path_bytes);
     defer allocator.free(file_path);
     var cwd_buffer = [_]u8{0} ** max_path_bytes;
@@ -59,6 +65,9 @@ fn readFiles(target: []const u8, buffer: []u8) !usize {
     defer file.close();
     var stat = try file.stat();
     switch (stat.kind) {
+        // If the path is a directory, it needs to get the file at
+        // directory/index.html. This isn't technically the standard
+        // (probably), but it's the assumption I will make for now.
         .directory => {
             if (std.mem.endsWith(u8, target, "/")) {
                 file_path = try std.fmt.allocPrint(allocator, "{s}index.html", .{target});
@@ -67,9 +76,13 @@ fn readFiles(target: []const u8, buffer: []u8) !usize {
             }
             return readFiles(file_path, buffer);
         },
+        // If it's a file then write all of the contents (up to buffer_limit
+        // bytes) into the provided arg buffer, and return the number of bytes
+        // written.
         .file => {
             return try file.readAll(buffer);
         },
+        // Otherwise, it's an error I'm not going to handle.
         else => {
             return 0;
         },
@@ -103,26 +116,38 @@ fn handleRequest(response: *std.http.Server.Response) !void {
         try response.headers.append("connection", "keep-alive");
     }
 
+    // First try to read the file into the read buffer; also handle and return
+    // certain easy error codes here
     const size = readFiles(response.request.target, &read) catch |err| {
         switch (err) {
+            // Return an error 403 if the file is denied because of permissions
             error.AccessDenied => {
                 response.status = .forbidden;
             },
+            // Return an error 404 if the file is not found
             error.FileNotFound => {
                 response.status = .not_found;
             },
+            // Return an error 414 if the URI is too long to be read
             error.OutOfMemory => {
                 response.status = .uri_too_long;
             },
+            // Otherwise, some other error happened that I don't know. This
+            // will eventually return an error 500
             else => {
                 return err;
             },
         }
+        // For all of the above error cases, it's not actually returning any
+        // data, so .content_length is 0
         response.transfer_encoding = .{ .content_length = 0 };
         try response.do();
         return;
     };
     if (size >= buffer_limit) {
+        // If the amount read into read is as big as the buffer_limit, that
+        // means there was more text than could be processed and so this will
+        // return an error 413
         response.status = .payload_too_large;
         response.transfer_encoding = .{ .content_length = 0 };
         try response.do();
@@ -130,12 +155,13 @@ fn handleRequest(response: *std.http.Server.Response) !void {
     } else if (size > 0) {
         // Get the file extension, and set the content-type header if it exists
         // (using mime.zig)
-        // To do this, we iterate through response.request.target in reverse
+        // To do this, iterate through response.request.target in reverse
         // looking for a '/' or a '.'
         // a '/' indicates a directory, so there is no extension
         // a '.' indicates a file extension
         var i: usize = response.request.target.len;
         var mime_type: ?mime.Type = undefined;
+        // TODO properly handle files with no extension
         if (std.mem.endsWith(u8, response.request.target, "/")) {
             log.warn("Dir requested, returning index.html!", .{});
             try response.headers.append("content-type", "text/html");
@@ -168,6 +194,7 @@ fn handleRequest(response: *std.http.Server.Response) !void {
                 if (mime_type) |mime_val| {
                     try response.headers.append("content-type", @tagName(mime_val));
                 } else {
+                    // Should maybe return error 415?
                     try response.headers.append("content-type", "text/plain");
                 }
             }