Using webscript.io's API to build a Sinatra-like web framework

web.lua

[[
This is a proof of concept that you can run locally to upload scripts to webscript.io. It provides a simple Sinatra-like API (in Lua) for defining URL routes and their corresponding actions.

To run on your own, you'll need your own webscript account (and api key) and Lua installation. 

Just copy the script locally, fill in your own values in the `app` table below, cd into the directory and run `lua yourfilename.lua`. 

Then log into webscript.io to make sure everything is there!

This is clearly highly experimental, probably broken in many ways, and only supports GET requests. Use at your own risk. Also, I'm totally new to Lua, so feel free to point out any egregious mistakes.
]]


-- Let's start by defining the most basic parts of the application:
-- api credentials and subdomain
local app = {
  api_key = "mykey",
  username = "[email protected]",
  subdomain = "mysubdomain"
}

-- We'll store our routes here
app.routes = {}

-- Basic method for creating a route
function app.routes:create(method, path, script)
  table.insert(app.routes, {method=method, path=path, script=script})
end

-- Pretty simple so far
--   app.routes:create("GET", "/hello", [[
--     if not foo then
--       print('not foo')
--     end
--     return 'hello!'
--   ]])

-- Adding some syntactic sugar
function app:get(path, script)
  local formatted_script = "if request.method == 'GET' then\n" .. script .. "\nend\n"
  app.routes:create("GET", path, formatted_script)
end

-- Looking Sinatra-like
--   app:get("/wow", [[
--     return 'my response.'
--   ]])

-- Makes it easy to track progress
function app:inspect()
  for i,v in ipairs(app.routes) do
    print(v.method .. " " .. v.path)
    print(v.script)
  end
end

-- Epic yak shave
if not http then
  http = {}
  http.request = function(params)
    if params.method == "POST" then
      local string = "curl -d ".. params.data .." -u ".. params.auth.username ..":".. params.auth.password .." ".. params.url ..""  
      print(string) -- take a look at the command line to see the curl request
      os.execute(string)
    end
  end
end

-- Now to upload the application to Webscript
function app:upload()
  for i,route in ipairs(app.routes) do
    http.request{
      method = "POST",
      url = "https://www.webscript.io/api/0.1/script/".. app.subdomain .. route.path,
      data = "\""..route.script.."\"", -- this should probably have better string formatting
      auth = {
        username = app.username,
        password = app.api_key
      }
    }
  end
end

-- after you run this, check your Webscript page to see that the code matches up
-- app:upload()


-- full example:
app:get("/home", [[
  return 'Welcome to my website.'
]])

app:get("/helloname", [[
  return tostring(request.query.name)
]])

app:upload()