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diff --git a/manual/cowboy_req.md b/manual/cowboy_req.md index 1667311..c7e2180 100644 --- a/manual/cowboy_req.md +++ b/manual/cowboy_req.md @@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ ignore any previous you may have had. This value contains various state informations which are necessary for Cowboy to do some lazy evaluation or cache results where appropriate. +All functions which perform an action should only be called once. +This includes reading the request body or replying. Cowboy will +generally throw an error on the second call. + Types ----- @@ -329,6 +333,9 @@ Request body related exports > body was sent using the chunked transfer-encoding. It will > also return `{error, badlength}` if the length of the body > exceeds the given `MaxLength`, which is 8MB by default. +> +> This function can only be called once. Cowboy will not cache +> the result of this call. ### body_length(Req) -> {Length, Req2} @@ -360,6 +367,9 @@ Request body related exports > body was sent using the chunked transfer-encoding. It will > also return `{error, badlength}` if the length of the body > exceeds the given `MaxLength`, which is 16KB by default. +> +> This function can only be called once. Cowboy will not cache +> the result of this call. ### has_body(Req) -> boolean() @@ -464,6 +474,9 @@ Response related exports > If the request uses HTTP/1.0, the data is sent directly > without wrapping it in an HTTP/1.1 chunk, providing > compatibility with older clients. +> +> This function can only be called once, with the exception +> of overriding the response in the `onresponse` hook. ### delete_resp_header(Name, Req) -> Req2 @@ -516,6 +529,9 @@ Response related exports > > No more data can be sent to the client after this function > returns. +> +> This function can only be called once, with the exception +> of overriding the response in the `onresponse` hook. ### set_resp_body(Body, Req) -> Req2 |