* detail::read_size_helper is removed
* public function read_size helps determine the optimum
size for calls to a DynamicBuffer's prepare function.
* special case for Asio types which don't conform to
the concept but have their own helper function.
fix#398
A new enum status is added for the status code.
The function obsolete_reason returns default reason phrasing.
If a response has an empty reason, the serializer will
automatically insert the default reason phrase for the
status code.
fix#397
method enum class is added to represent all known request methods.
Functions are provided to convert from strings to and from the method
enumeration.
The fields container is modified to also work with the enum.
serializer interface is changed to be buffer-only, no streams,
and placed in its own header file.
Operations on serializers are moved to free functions as part
of the HTTP write family of synchronous and asynchronous algorithms.
A new class `serializer` is introduced to permit incremental
serialization of HTTP messages. Existing free functions are
re-implemented in terms of this new class.
* The BodyReader concept is refined to support a greater variety
of strategies for providing buffers representing the body to
the serialization algorithms.
* Added buffer_body, a new model of Body which allows the caller
to provide a series of owned buffers using their own serialization
loop.
* Added empty_body, a model of Body which is for serialization only,
to represent HTTP messages with no content body.
* Removed overloads of write and async_write which send only
the HTTP header.
* Removed public interfaces for performing low-level chunk encoding.
The concept type traits are renamed for consistency,
and consolidated into a single header file <beast/core/type_traits.hpp>
A new section, Core Concepts, is added to the documentation describing all
of the core utility classes and functions. This also includes a complete
explanation and sample program describing how to write asynchronous initiation
functions and their associated composed operations.
A new function, buffers(), returns an implementation defined object
which wraps a ConstBufferSequence and supports formatting to a
std::ostream.
The function to_string is removed, as the new implementation allows
conversion to string using boost::lexical_cast on the return value
of the call to buffers(). Streaming to an output stream is more
efficient: no dynamic allocations are performed.
Example:
streambuf sb;
std::cout << buffers(sb.data()) << std::endl;
This eliminates beast::write output for dynamic buffers and replaces
it with the function ostream() that wraps a caller provided dynamic
buffer and returns the result as a std::ostream derived object.
Callers may now produce formatted output into any object meeting the
requirements of DynamicBuffer using operator<< and the standard stream
modifiers such as std::endl.
This new technique is more efficient, as implementations of operator<<
can now write directly into the output using std::ostream::write and
std::ostream::put.
Example of use:
beast::streambuf sb;
beast::ostream(sb) << "Hello, world!" << std::endl;
fix#123fix#154fix#265
This completely replaces the HTTP parser used to read and
parse incoming messages. The new version is faster than
the old one, and written in fewer lines. A summary of
changes:
* parse and async_parse renamed to read and async_read
* basic_parser is optimized for linear buffers,
use flat_streambuf for the best performance with these
functions:
- http::read
- http::read_some
- http::async_read
- http::async_read_some
* The overloads of read() and async_read() which take
just a header have been removed, since they would
throw away important parse metadata.
* The derived class callbacks for basic_parser have
been streamlined. All strings passed to callbacks
are presented in their entirety, instead of being
provided in pieces.
These changes allow use-cases that were previously
difficult or impossible, such as:
- Efficient relaying
- Late body type commitment
- Expect: 100-continue handling
Objects of this type meet the requirements of DynamicBuffer
and offer an additional invariant: buffer sequences returned
by data() and prepare() are always of length one.
* Add handler_ptr test and increase coverage
* Add test for prepare_buffer
* Move is_call_possible tests to a .cpp file
* Tidy up docs and declarations
fix#215
This change guarantees that temporary memory allocated
through the asio hooks by the Beast implementation is
deallocated before invoking the final handler when performing
composed operations.
The change is accomplished by replacing std::shared_ptr with
a thread-safe custom container handler_ptr to manage composed
operation state. The container tracks other instances which
manage the same object and resets them in a safe way before
invoking the final handler.
handler_ptr is provided as a public interface so that users of
this library can utilize the same idiom to write their own
composed operations.
fix#171
Several names and HTTP identifiers are renamed to be
more consistent, self-explanatory, and concise:
* "Fields" is a collection of HTTP header fields (rfc7230 section 3.2)
* "Header" is the Start Line plus Fields. Another way to look at it is,
the HTTP message minus the body.
* `basic_fields` replaces `basic_headers`
* `fields` replaces `headers`
* `Fields` replaces `Headers` in template parameter lists
* `header` replaces `message_headers`
* `header::fields` replaces `message_headers::fields`
The changes are cosmetic and do not affect run-time behavior.
Vinnie Falco