Regarding flush_buffer, and the perpetual difficulty we have both
addressing its bugs and describing its behavior, I am inclined to
finally make the change described here:
http://marc.info/?t=105917762800001&r=1&w=2
Namely, that flush_buffer should only flush the main request buffer,
and not attempt to flush past filters, subrequests, etc. This change
is easy to make:
--- Request.pm (revision 3897)
+++ Request.pm (working copy)
@@ -1397,7 +1397,8 @@
if length $self->{request_buffer};
$self->{request_buffer} = '';
- if ( $self->{top_stack}->[STACK_BUFFER_IS_FLUSHABLE]
+ if ( $self->{aggressive_flush_buffer}
+ && $self->{top_stack}->[STACK_BUFFER_IS_FLUSHABLE]
&& $self->{top_stack}->[STACK_BUFFER] )
{
my $comp = $self->{top_stack}->[STACK_COMP];
It only breaks one current test, 'flush_filter' in 05-request.t. IOW,
flush_buffer will no longer work through filters.
Advantages of making this the official behavior:
* bugs like #38924 and #23535 go away (become "not a bug")
* we no longer have to try to make flush_buffer work "correctly" with
various other features
* we no longer have to contort ourselves trying to explain how
flush_buffer iteracts with filters, subrequests, etc. etc.
Because this is a backward incompatibility, I would add an
'aggressive_flush_buffer' parameter that will make the old behavior
available for a time. But these users would be "on their own" in terms
of flush_buffer problems. I suspect that the vast majority of users
would not need to use this parameter.
Comments?
Jon
P.S. See the whole thread above - http://marc.info/?t=105917762800001&r=1&w=2
- for an informative and occasionally amusing look at flush_buffer,
clear_buffer and related problems.
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