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2014-09-30Improve handler interface and documentationLoïc Hoguin
This change simplifies a little more the sub protocols mechanism. Aliases have been removed. The renaming of loop handlers as long polling handlers has been reverted. Plain HTTP handlers now simply do their work in the init/2 callback. There is no specific code for them. Loop handlers now follow the same return value as Websocket, they use ok to continue and shutdown to stop. Terminate reasons for all handler types have been documented. The terminate callback is now appropriately called in all cases (or should be). Behaviors for all handler types have been moved in the module that implement them. This means that cowboy_handler replaces the cowboy_http_handler behavior, and similarly cowboy_loop replaces cowboy_loop_handler, cowboy_websocket replaces cowboy_websocket_handler. Finally cowboy_rest now has the start of a behavior in it and will have the full list of optional callbacks defined once Erlang 18.0 gets released. The guide has been reorganized and should be easier to follow.
2014-09-26Unify the init and terminate callbacksLoïc Hoguin
This set of changes is the first step to simplify the writing of handlers, by removing some extraneous callbacks and making others optional. init/3 is now init/2, its first argument being removed. rest_init/2 and rest_terminate/2 have been removed. websocket_init/3 and websocket_terminate/3 have been removed. terminate/3 is now optional. It is called regardless of the type of handler, including rest and websocket. The return value of init/2 changed. It now returns {Mod, Req, Opts} with Mod being either one of the four handler type or a custom module. It can also return extra timeout and hibernate options. The signature for sub protocols has changed, they now receive these extra timeout and hibernate options. Loop handlers are now implemented in cowboy_long_polling, and will be renamed throughout the project in a future commit.
2014-03-26Remove outdated comments, all edoc, plus a few minor tweaksLoïc Hoguin
2014-02-06Update copyright yearsLoïc Hoguin
2013-02-13Update websocket handler callback specsAndrew Majorov
There are some additional terminate reasons exist which are not mentioned in the specs.
2013-01-22Fix cowboy_websocket_handler callback specLoïc Hoguin
2013-01-04Hello 2013Loïc Hoguin
2012-12-02Add more frame types available in websocket repliesLoïc Hoguin
We can now reply empty close, ping and pong frames, or close frames with a payload. This means that we can send a frame and then close the connection in a single operation. If a close packet is sent, the connection is closed immediately, even if there was frames that remained to be sent. Cowboy will silently drop any extra frames in the list given as a reply.
2012-11-28Update the cowboy_websocket_handler specsLoïc Hoguin
We can send many payloads at once.
2012-08-27Update behaviours for R15B+Loïc Hoguin
This effectively drops the R14B compatibility. The cowboy_req:req() type will be introduced in a future commit. It refers to the #http_req{} record.