On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Michael McMahon < michael.x.mcma...@oracle.com> wrote:
> There is an updated version of the HTTP client API doc [1] and a specdiff > [2] showing the changes > proposed from the current version in JDK9 dev. > > The main changes are: > > 1) The request and response processors are now based on Flow.Publisher and > Flow.Subscriber > > 2) Response bodies are retrieved synchronously with the response headers > as part of the > HttpRequest.response() and responseAsync() methods > > 3) Because of the change above, to allow code to examine the headers and > decide what to do > with the body before retrieving it, there is a new entity called a > HttpResponse.BodyHandler > which is given the status code and headers, and which returns a > HttpResponse.BodyProcessor. > Static implementations of both body handlers and body processors are > provided, to make the > simple cases easy to code. > > We are currently working in the sandbox repository again and will have > these changes > in the main JDK9 dev forest soon. > Is it possible to access the API code somewhere before then, mainly as a convenience for reviewing the APIs? > > Thanks, > > Michael > > [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~michaelm/httpclient/api/ > > [2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~michaelm/httpclient/specdiffout/ > package-summary.html > >
