[whatwg] Fetch API: HTTP Stream
Hi, I occasionally have had to deal live XML feeds over HTTP The server continuously sent HTTP chunks during the lifetime of the HTTP connection, meaning, until the client close the connection. I used a SAX JS lib and, on readystate === 3, had to continuously check body changes via a setInterval callback. While the body started to be too big, I also had to create a new request and close the previous one once the new connection was ready (and of course I had to take care of potential duplicates) Other Comet technics could have been used, but I already have hard time to get at least this option Of course, today, I'd do my best to ask for Web Socket of Server-Sent Event alternatives, but I'm not sure I would have get it in the same situation. With XHR2, I wondered if there could be a way to not full the body property but receive the content in some 'chunk' event.data property I wonder now if such fetch API could be a better place to manage such use case Regards, Alexandre Morgaut Wakanda Community Manager 4D SAS 60, rue d'Alsace 92110 Clichy France Standard : +33 1 40 87 92 00 Email :alexandre.morg...@4d.com Web : www.4D.com
Re: [whatwg] Fetch API: HTTP Stream
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Alexandre Morgaut alexandre.morg...@4d.com wrote: I wonder now if such fetch API could be a better place to manage such use case The plan is for response.body (the promise fetch() returns resolves once all the headers are in) to be a stream: http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#body-stream-concept If you want to contribute to IO stream development: https://github.com/whatwg/streams -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
Re: [whatwg] Fetch API: HTTP Stream
Thanks for the redirection Anne On 23 juin 2014, at 13:42, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Alexandre Morgaut alexandre.morg...@4d.com wrote: I wonder now if such fetch API could be a better place to manage such use case The plan is for response.body (the promise fetch() returns resolves once all the headers are in) to be a stream: http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#body-stream-concept If you want to contribute to IO stream development: https://github.com/whatwg/streams -- http://annevankesteren.nl/ Alexandre Morgaut Wakanda Community Manager 4D SAS 60, rue d'Alsace 92110 Clichy France Standard : +33 1 40 87 92 00 Email :alexandre.morg...@4d.com Web : www.4D.com
