From a45813c60f0f983a24ea29d491b37f0590fdd087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Lo=C3=AFc=20Hoguin?= Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:26:20 +0100 Subject: Allow passing options to sub protocols Before this commit we had an issue where configuring a Websocket connection was simply not possible without doing magic, adding callbacks or extra return values. The init/2 function only allowed setting hibernate and timeout options. After this commit, when switching to a different type of handler you can either return {module, Req, State} or {module, Req, State, Opts} where Opts is any value (as far as the sub protocol interface is concerned) and is ultimately checked by the custom handlers. A large protocol like Websocket would accept only a map there, with many different options, while a small interface like loop handlers would allow passing hibernate and nothing else. For Websocket, hibernate must be set from the websocket_init/1 callback, because init/2 executes in a separate process. Sub protocols now have two callbacks: one with the Opts value, one without. The loop handler code was largely reworked and simplified. It does not need to manage a timeout or read from the socket anymore, it's the job of the protocol code. A lot of unnecessary stuff was therefore removed. Websocket compression must now be enabled from the handler options instead of per listener. This means that a project can have two separate Websocket handlers with different options. Compression is still disabled by default, and the idle_timeout value was changed from inifnity to 60000 (60 seconds), as that's safer and is also a good value for mobile devices. --- doc/src/manual/cowboy_rest.asciidoc | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/src/manual/cowboy_rest.asciidoc') diff --git a/doc/src/manual/cowboy_rest.asciidoc b/doc/src/manual/cowboy_rest.asciidoc index 26515fb..73adb23 100644 --- a/doc/src/manual/cowboy_rest.asciidoc +++ b/doc/src/manual/cowboy_rest.asciidoc @@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ REST handlers implement the following interface: ---- init(Req, State) -> {cowboy_rest, Req, State} - | {cowboy_rest, Req, State, hibernate} - | {cowboy_rest, Req, State, timeout()} - | {cowboy_rest, Req, State, timeout(), hibernate} Callback(Req, State) -> {Result, Req, State} -- cgit v1.2.3