Previously, BUrlRequest returns data received via a callback that can't
return any value. This approach have several issues:
- It's not possible to signify failures to the request.
- Users have to implement custom listeners just to handle the common
case of outputting to a buffer/file/etc.
- The received data has to be serialized into BMessage when
BUrlProtocolDispatchingListener is employed. This can cause a
noticible slowdown in real-world scenarios as evident by #10748.
With this change, BUrlRequest will output directly into a BDataIO, which
exposes a richer API for request handlers to work with (for example a
BitTorrent client can request a BPositionIO for non-linear data
delivery), as well as simplifying common cases for users.
The adaptation only requires one additional API:
BHttpRequest::SetStopOnError(). This API simply instructs the HTTP
request handler to cancel the request if an HTTP error is occurred.
Change-Id: I4160884d77bff0e7678e0a623e2587987704443a
Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/3084
Reviewed-by: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@gmail.com>
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