API Reference Manual

Complete Silly framework API documentation, including detailed descriptions of all modules, functions, parameters, and return values.

Core Modules

Core functionality of the framework, including coroutine scheduling, timers, signal handling, etc.

• silly - Core module
• silly.task - Coroutine task management
• silly.time - Timers and time management
• silly.signal - Unix signal handling
• silly.logger - Logging system
• silly.hive - Worker thread pool

Utility Modules

Development and operations tools, including console, debugger, hot reload, etc.

• silly.console - Interactive console
• silly.debugger - Interactive debugger
• silly.patch - Module hot reload

Data Structure Modules

Efficient data structure implementations for handling network data streams and queue management.

• silly.adt.buffer - Byte buffer
• silly.adt.queue - FIFO queue

Cryptographic Modules

Cryptography-related functionality, based on OpenSSL implementation.

• silly.crypto.cipher - Symmetric encryption (AES, DES, etc.)
• silly.crypto.hash - Hash functions (SHA256, MD5, etc.)
• silly.crypto.hmac - Message authentication codes (HMAC)
• silly.crypto.pkey - Asymmetric encryption (RSA, EC)

Encoding Modules

Data encoding and decoding utilities.

• silly.encoding.json - JSON encoding/decoding
• silly.encoding.base64 - Base64 encoding/decoding

Synchronization Modules

Coroutine synchronization primitives for coordination and communication between coroutines.

• silly.sync.mutex - Mutex lock
• silly.sync.channel - Channel (inter-coroutine communication)
• silly.sync.waitgroup - Wait group

Network Modules

Network-related functionality, including support for TCP, UDP, TLS, HTTP, and other protocols.

Basic Protocols

• silly.net - Network base module (low-level API)
• silly.net.tcp - TCP protocol
• silly.net.udp - UDP protocol
• silly.net.tls - TLS/SSL encryption

Application Protocols

• silly.net.http - HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 protocols
• silly.net.websocket - WebSocket protocol
• silly.net.grpc - gRPC protocol
• silly.net.dns - DNS domain name resolution
• silly.net.cluster - Distributed cluster communication

Storage Modules

Data storage and persistence, including relational databases, key-value stores, distributed configuration, etc.

• silly.store.mysql - MySQL database client
• silly.store.redis - Redis key-value store client
• silly.store.etcd - etcd distributed configuration store

Security Modules

Authentication and authorization related functionality.

• silly.security.jwt - JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication

Monitoring Modules

Application performance monitoring and metrics collection with Prometheus format export support.

Core Metric Types

• silly.metrics.counter - Counter (monotonically increasing)
• silly.metrics.gauge - Gauge (can increase or decrease)
• silly.metrics.histogram - Histogram (distribution statistics)

Metrics Management

• silly.metrics.prometheus - Prometheus integration (convenience wrapper)
• silly.metrics.registry - Metrics registry
• silly.metrics.collector - Custom collector interface
• silly.metrics.labels - Label management (internal module)

Usage Notes

• Information-Oriented: Accurate, dry technical descriptions
• Completeness: Covers all public APIs
• Searchable: Use search functionality to quickly find needed APIs

Related Resources

• Tutorials - Learn how to use
• How-To Guides - Solve specific problems
• Concepts - Understand design principles