actix-extras/MIGRATION.md

Migration from 0.5 to 0.6

• Path<T> extractor return ErrorNotFound on failure instead of ErrorBadRequest

• ws::Message::Close now includes optional close reason. ws::CloseCode::Status and ws::CloseCode::Empty have been removed.

• HttpServer::threads() renamed to HttpServer::workers().

• HttpServer::start_ssl() and HttpServer::start_tls() deprecated. Use HttpServer::bind_ssl() and HttpServer::bind_tls() instead.

• HttpRequest::extensions() returns read only reference to the request's Extension HttpRequest::extensions_mut() returns mutable reference.

• Instead of

  use actix_web::middleware::{ CookieSessionBackend, CookieSessionError, RequestSession, Session, SessionBackend, SessionImpl, SessionStorage};

  use actix_web::middleware::session

  use actix_web::middleware::session{CookieSessionBackend, CookieSessionError, RequestSession, Session, SessionBackend, SessionImpl, SessionStorage};

• FromRequest::from_request() accepts mutable reference to a request

• FromRequest::Result has to implement Into<Reply<Self>>

• Responder::respond_to() is generic over S

• HttpRequest::query() is deprecated. Use Query extractor.

  fn index(q: Query<HashMap<String, String>>) -> Result<..> {
      ...
  }
  

  or

  let q = Query::<HashMap<String, String>>::extract(req);
  

• Websocket operations are implemented as WsWriter trait. you need to use use actix_web::ws::WsWriter

Migration from 0.4 to 0.5

• HttpResponseBuilder::body(), .finish(), .json() methods return HttpResponse instead of Result<HttpResponse>

• actix_web::Method, actix_web::StatusCode, actix_web::Version moved to actix_web::http module

• actix_web::header moved to actix_web::http::header

• NormalizePath moved to actix_web::http module

• HttpServer moved to actix_web::server, added new actix_web::server::new() function, shortcut for actix_web::server::HttpServer::new()

• DefaultHeaders middleware does not use separate builder, all builder methods moved to type itself

• StaticFiles::new()'s show_index parameter removed, use show_files_listing() method instead.

• CookieSessionBackendBuilder removed, all methods moved to CookieSessionBackend type

• actix_web::httpcodes module is deprecated, HttpResponse::Ok(), HttpResponse::Found() and other HttpResponse::XXX() functions should be used instead

• ClientRequestBuilder::body() returns Result<_, actix_web::Error> instead of Result<_, http::Error>

• Application renamed to a App

• actix_web::Reply, actix_web::Resource moved to actix_web::dev