Abscissa is a micro-framework for building Rust applications (either CLI tools or network/web services).
It aims to provide a large number of features with a minimal number of dependencies, and with a strong focus on security.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Command-line option parsing: simple declarative option parser based on [clap]. The option parser in Abcissa contains numerous improvements which provide better UX and tighter integration with the other parts of the framework (e.g. overriding configuration settings using command-line options).
- Components: Abscissa uses a component architecture (similar to an ECS) for extensibility/composability, with a minimalist implementation that still provides such features such as calculating dependency ordering and providing hooks into the application lifecycle. Newly generated apps use two components by default: terminal and logging.
- Configuration: Simple parsing of TOML configurations to serde-parsed configuration types which can be dynamically updated at runtime.
- Error handling: unified error-handling subsystem with generic error type.
- Logging: based on the log to provide application-level logging.
- Secrets management: the (optional) secrets module includes a Secret type which derives serde’s Deserialize and can be used to represent secret values parsed from configuration files or elsewhere (e.g. credentials loaded from the environment or network requests)
- Terminal interactions: support for colored terminal output (with color support autodetection). Useful for Cargo-like status messages with easy-to-use macros.
Website: github.com/iqlusioninc/abscissa
Support:
Developer: Tony Arcieri (iqlusion)
License: Apache License Version 2.0
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