NAME

LZ-Ngx-Dev-Roadmap - Nginx module development roadmap for LZ

VERSION

This document was created on Nov 26, 2010, last updated on Nov 26, 2010.

DESCRIPTION

This document describes the opensource module development roadmap around nginx for the Taobao.com Quantum (LZ) Team.

A complete list of our existing nginx modules can be found in the much more bigger list of all the 3rd-party modules in the following page:

http://wiki.nginx.org/3rdPartyModules

ROADMAP

All of the modules listed here are or will be created by us. If you like to get involved, please mail us by <agentzh@gmail.com>.

Upstream Modules

ngx_proxy_more

Add basic HTTP 1.1 support to ngx_proxy_more:

HTTP 1.1 chunked response support
HTTP 1.1 keepalive support
connection pool support with Maxim Dounin's ngx_http_upstream_keepalive_module or a modified version of it.

Status

This module does not exist yet.

ngx_oracle

Make nginx talk directly to Oracle by the non-blocking API provided by OCI and emit Resty-DBD-Stream results, just like ngx_drizzle and ngx_postgres.

Status

This module is still under development.

ngx_redis2

Implement the full redis 2.0 protocol for nginx.

Status

This module is still under development.

ngx_beanstalkd

Make nginx talk non-blockingly to beanstalkd (http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/), a simple, fast work queue.

Status

This module does not exist yet.

ngx_redisql

Make nginx talk non-blockingly to redisql (http://code.google.com/p/redisql/).

Status

This module does not exist yet.

ngx_memc

multi-get command support

Status

This module is already production ready but the TODO list above has not finished.

Repository

https://github.com/agentzh/memc-nginx-module

ngx_drizzle

Mysql transaction support
Ability to cancel a long-running query by explicitly sending "kill connection <thread-id>" query in another mysql connection.

Status

This module is already production ready but the TODO list above has not finished.

Repository

https://github.com/chaoslawful/drizzle-nginx-module

ngx_shell

Execute shell commands and talk to system pipes in a non-blocking and streaming way.

This will make CLI [1] automation more efficient and more easily, in the contexts of those web-based system management tools.

Status

This module does not exist yet.

Content Handler Modules

ngx_lua

option to disable the Lua code cache
parallel subrequest support via ngx.location.capture_multi.
ability to issue coroutines directly from within Lua, that is scheduled in the nginx event model.
built-in TT2-based template engine but implemented in pure C and can be JIT'd.
implement the "output_filter_by_lua" and "input_filter_by_lua" directives.

Status

This module is already production ready but the TODO list above has not finished.

Repository

https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module

Output Filter Modules

ngx_srcache

Caching response headers along with the body.

Status

This module is already production ready but the TODO list above has not yet implemented.

Repository

https://github.com/agentzh/srcache-nginx-module

ngx_rds_csv

Converting Resty-DBD-Stream (RDS) data into Comma-Seperated-Value (CSV) format. Just like ngx_rds_json convert RDS into JSON.

Status

This module does not exist yet.

ngx_silly_cache

A very silly memory cache that caches the response body and headers into the location configuration struct.

Status

This module does not exist yet.

AUTHOR

Yichun "agentzh" Zhang <agentzh@gmail.com>