# Factory to create `HttpServer` instances, and hold the libevent base handler
class HttpFactory
	super ConnectionFactory

	# Configuration of this server
	#
	# It should be populated after this object has instanciated
	var config = new ServerConfig.with_factory(self)

	# Instantiate a server and libvent
	#
	# You can use this to create the first `HttpFactory`, which is the most common.
	init and_libevent do init(new NativeEventBase)

	redef fun spawn_connection(buf_ev, address) do return new HttpServer(buf_ev, self, address)

	# Execute the main listening loop to accept connections
	#
	# After the loop ends, the underlying resources are freed.
	#
	# When the environment variable `NIT_TESTING` is set to `true`,
	# the loop is not executed but the resources are still freed.
	fun run
	do
		if "NIT_TESTING".environ != "true" then
			event_base.dispatch
		end

		event_base.free
	end
end