Request & Response

Response

Builder-like patter is used to construct an instance of HttpResponse. HttpResponse provides several method that returns HttpResponseBuilder instance, which is implements various convinience methods that helps build response. Check documentation for type description. Methods .body, .finish, .json finalizes response creation, if this methods get call for the same builder instance, builder will panic.

# extern crate actix_web;
use actix_web::*;
use actix_web::headers::ContentEncoding;

fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> HttpResponse {
    HttpResponse::Ok()
        .content_encoding(ContentEncoding::Br)
        .content_type("plain/text")
        .header("X-Hdr", "sample")
        .body("data").unwrap()
}
# fn main() {}

Content encoding

Actix automatically compress/decompress payload. Following codecs are supported:

Brotli
Gzip
Deflate
Identity

If request headers contains Content-Encoding header, request payload get decompressed according to header value. Multiple codecs are not supported, i.e: Content-Encoding: br, gzip.

Response payload get compressed based on content_encoding parameter. By default ContentEncoding::Auto is used. If ContentEncoding::Auto is selected then compression depends on request's Accept-Encoding header. ContentEncoding::Identity could be used to disable compression. If other content encoding is selected the compression is enforced for this codec. For example, to enable brotli response's body compression use ContentEncoding::Br:

# extern crate actix_web;
use actix_web::*;
use actix_web::headers::ContentEncoding;

fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> HttpResponse {
    HttpResponse::Ok()
        .content_encoding(ContentEncoding::Br)
        .body("data").unwrap()
}
# fn main() {}

JSON Request

Unfortunately, because of async nature of actix web framework, json requests deserialization is not very ergonomic process. First you need to load whole body into a temporal storage and only then you can deserialize it.

Here is simple example. We will deserialize MyObj struct.

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
struct MyObj {
    name: String,
    number: i32,
}

We need to load request body first and then deserialize json into object.

fn index(mut req: HttpRequest) -> Future<Item=HttpResponse, Error=Error> {
   // `concat2` will asynchronously read each chunk of the request body and
   // return a single, concatenated, chunk
   req.payload_mut().readany().concat2()
      // `Future::from_err` acts like `?` in that it coerces the error type from
      // the future into the final error type
      .from_err()
      // `Future::and_then` can be used to merge an asynchronous workflow with a
      // synchronous workflow
      .and_then(|body| {                           // <- body is loaded, now we can deserialize json
          let obj = serde_json::from_slice::<MyObj>(&body)?;
          Ok(httpcodes::HTTPOk.build().json(obj)?) // <- send response
      })
}

Full example is available in examples directory.

JSON Response

The Json type allows you to respond with well-formed JSON data: simply return a value of type Json where T is the type of a structure to serialize into JSON. The type T must implement the Serialize trait from serde.

# extern crate actix_web;
#[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive;
use actix_web::*;

#[derive(Serialize)]
struct MyObj {
    name: String,
}

fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> Result<Json<MyObj>> {
    Ok(Json(MyObj{name: req.match_info().query("name")?}))
}

fn main() {
    Application::new()
        .resource(r"/a/{name}", |r| r.method(Method::GET).f(index))
        .finish();
}

Chunked transfer encoding

Actix automatically decode chunked encoding. HttpRequest::payload() already contains decoded bytes stream. If request payload compressed with one of supported compression codecs (br, gzip, deflate) bytes stream get decompressed.

Chunked encoding on response could be enabled with HttpResponseBuilder::chunked() method. But this takes effect only for Body::Streaming(BodyStream) or Body::StreamingContext bodies. Also if response payload compression is enabled and streaming body is used, chunked encoding get enabled automatically.

Enabling chunked encoding for HTTP/2.0 responses is forbidden.

# extern crate actix_web;
use actix_web::*;

fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> HttpResponse {
    HttpResponse::Ok()
        .chunked()
        .body(Body::Streaming(payload::Payload::empty().stream())).unwrap()
}
# fn main() {}

Cookies

[WIP]

Multipart body

Actix provides multipart stream support. Multipart is implemented as a stream of multipart items, each item could be Field or nested Multipart stream. HttpResponse::multipart() method returns Multipart stream for current request.

In simple form multipart stream handling could be implemented similar to this example

# extern crate actix_web;
use actix_web::*;

fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> Box<Future<...>> {
    req.multipart()        // <- get multipart stream for current request
       .and_then(|item| {  // <- iterate over multipart items
           match item {
                           // Handle multipart Field
              multipart::MultipartItem::Field(field) => {
                 println!("==== FIELD ==== {:?} {:?}", field.heders(), field.content_type());
                 
                 Either::A(
                           // Field in turn is a stream of *Bytes* objects
                   field.map(|chunk| {
                        println!("-- CHUNK: \n{}",
                                 std::str::from_utf8(&chunk).unwrap());})
                      .fold((), |_, _| result(Ok(()))))
                },
              multipart::MultipartItem::Nested(mp) => {
                         // Or item could be nested Multipart stream 
                 Either::B(result(Ok(())))
              }
         }
   })
}

Full example is available in examples directory.

Urlencoded body

Actix provides support for application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoded body. HttpResponse::urlencoded() method returns UrlEncoded future, it resolves into HashMap<String, String> which contains decoded parameters. UrlEncoded future can resolve into a error in several cases:

content type is not application/x-www-form-urlencoded
transfer encoding is chunked.
content-length is greater than 256k
payload terminates with error.

# extern crate actix_web;
# extern crate futures;
use actix_web::*;
use futures::future::{Future, ok};

fn index(mut req: HttpRequest) -> Box<Future<Item=HttpResponse, Error=Error>> {
    Box::new(
        req.urlencoded()         // <- get UrlEncoded future
           .and_then(|params| {  // <- url encoded parameters
                 println!("==== BODY ==== {:?}", params);
                 ok(httpcodes::HTTPOk.response())
           })
           .map_err(Error::from)
   )
}
# fn main() {}

Streaming request

Actix uses Payload object as request payload stream. HttpRequest provides several methods, which can be used for payload access. At the same time Payload implements Stream trait, so it could be used with various stream combinators. Also Payload provides serveral convinience methods that return future object that resolve to Bytes object.

readany method returns Stream of Bytes objects.
readexactly method returns Future that resolves when specified number of bytes get received.
readline method returns Future that resolves when \n get received.
readuntil method returns Future that resolves when specified bytes string matches in input bytes stream

In this example handle reads request payload chunk by chunk and prints every chunk.

# extern crate actix_web;
# extern crate futures;
# use futures::future::result;
use actix_web::*;
use futures::{Future, Stream};


fn index(mut req: HttpRequest) -> Box<Future<Item=HttpResponse, Error=Error>> {
    Box::new(
        req.payload_mut()
            .readany()
            .fold((), |_, chunk| {
                println!("Chunk: {:?}", chunk);
                result::<_, error::PayloadError>(Ok(()))
            })
            .map_err(|e| Error::from(e))
            .map(|_| HttpResponse::Ok().finish().unwrap()))
}
# fn main() {}

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