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.
fix#124
The http::header data members "method", "url", and "reason"
are changed from data members, to pairs of get and set
functions which forward the call to the Fields type used
to instantiate the template.
Previously, these data members were implemented using
std::string. With this change, the implementation of the
Fields type used to instantiate the template is now in
control of the representation of those values. This permits
custom memory allocation strategies including uniform use of
the Allocator type already provided to beast::http::basic_fields.
fix#332
This removes the keep_alive option from the WebSocket stream.
Callers who wish to control the behavior of the Connection
header may do so in the decorator and completion handlers
for the handshake and accept functions.
fix#80, #212, fix#303, fix#314, fix#317
websocket::stream now provides the following families of
functions for performing handshakes:
When operating in the server role:
* stream::accept
* stream::accept_ex
* stream::async_accept
* stream::async_accept_ex
When operating in the client role:
* stream::handshake
* stream::handshake_ex
* stream::async_handshake
* stream::async_handshake_ex
Member functions ending with "_ex" allow an additional
RequestDecorator parameter (for the accept family of
functions) or ResponseDecorator parameter (for the
handshake family of functions).
The decorator is called to optionally modify the contents
of the HTTP request or HTTP response object generated by
the implementation, before the message is sent. This
permits callers to set the User-Agent or Server fields,
add or modify HTTP fields related to subprotocols, or
perform any required transformation of the HTTP message
for application-specific needs.
The handshake() family of functions now have an additional
set of overloads accepting a parameter of type response_type&,
allowing the caller to receive the HTTP Response to the
Upgrade handshake. This permits inspection of the response
to handle things like subprotocols, authentication, or
other application-specific needs.
The new implementation does not require any state to be
stored in the stream object. Therefore, websocket::stream
objects are now smaller in size.
The overload of set_option for setting a decorator on the
stream is removed. The only way to set decorators now is
with a suitable overload of accept or handshake.
This adds enough functions to the accept and async_accept
overload set to cover all combinations of request, buffers,
and error_code parameters. This also fixes a defect where
providing a complete Upgrade request when there are additional
unprocessed octets remaining in the callers stream buffer
could not be furnished to the WebSocket implementation.
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
fix#248
This additionally invokes the pong callback for received pings, allowing
callers to more efficiently detect when a connection is still lively:
* pong_callback renamed to ping_callback
* Callback signature has an extra `bool` to indicate if the received
control frame is a ping or pong.
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.
Conform to the Networking TS by renaming the Streambuf concept
to DynamicBuffer in all places. Values of types meeting the
requirements of DynamicBuffer are renamed to dynabuf.
See:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4478.html#requirements.dynamic_buffers
* Headers renamed
* Formal parameter names renamed
* Template argument types renamed
* Documentation updated
* Improve test coverage
* tests for invokable in composed ops
* Update documentation
* Add License badge to README
* Target Windows 7 SDK and later
* Make role_type private
* Remove extra unused masking functions
* Allow stream reuse / reconnect after failure
* Restructure logic of composed operations
* Allow 0 for read_message_max meaning no limit
* Respect keep alive when building HTTP responses
* Check version in upgrade request
* Response with 426 status on unsupported WebSocket version
* Remove unnecessary Sec-WebSocket-Key in HTTP responses
* Rename to mask_buffer_size
* Remove maybe_throw
* Add ping, async_ping, async_on_pong
* Add ping_op
* Add pong_op
* Fix crash in accept_op
* Fix suspend in close_op
* Fix read_frame_op logic
* Fix crash in read_op
* Fix races in echo sync and async echo servers
Core:
* Test buffer_cat iterator move members
HTTP:
* Fixed yield / resume in writer
* Fixed message serialization with chunked encoding
* Test yield / resume in writer
* Test all conditional branches during message serialization
* Test chunked encoding
* Increase coverage on parse_error
* Add parse_error::general
WebSocket:
* Add error::general
* Increase coverage in error
* Don't include the test code in coverage reports
* Add test code for missing coverage
Other:
* Improve the README.md
* Fix warning in sha1_context
* Tidy up the examples use of namespaces
* Various fixes to documentation and javadocs
The version field is moved into message_v1, all public interfaces
are reworked to identify HTTP/1 wire format operations (suffix "_v1")
versus general HTTP.
websocket:
* Move echo server to test/
* Fix warnings
* Fix maskgen being uncopyable
* Simplify utf8_checker special member declarations
* Fix stream move assignable when owning the next layer
* Add javadocs for stream special members
* Add stream unit tests
* Move throwing member definitions to the .ipp file
* Use get_lowest_layer in stream declaration
* Perform type checks at each call site instead of constructor
* Demote close_code to a non-class enum:
Otherwise, application specific close codes
cannot be assigned without using static_cast.
core:
* Add streambuf_readstream special members tests
* Add move assignment operator to streambuf_readstream
* Add detail/get_lowest_layer trait
* Add static_string tests
* Move static_string from websocket to core
Vinnie Falco