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title: Responses
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# Response
A builder-like pattern is used to construct an instance of `HttpResponse`. `HttpResponse`
provides several methods that return a `HttpResponseBuilder` instance, which implements
various convenience methods for building responses.
> Check the [documentation][responsebuilder] for type descriptions.
The methods `.body`, `.finish`, and `.json` finalize response creation and return a
constructed *HttpResponse* instance. If this methods is called on the same builder
instance multiple times, the builder will panic.
{{< include-example example="responses" file="main.rs" section="builder" >}}
# Content encoding
Actix-web automatically *compresses* payloads. The following codecs are supported:
* Brotli
* Gzip
* Deflate
* Identity
Response payload is compressed based on the *encoding* parameter from the
`middleware::BodyEncoding` trait. By default, `ContentEncoding::Auto` is
used. If `ContentEncoding::Auto` is selected, then the compression depends
on the request's `Accept-Encoding` header.
> `ContentEncoding::Identity` can be used to disable compression.
> If another content encoding is selected, the compression is enforced for that codec.
For example, to enable `brotli` use `ContentEncoding::Br`:
{{< include-example example="responses" file="brotli.rs" section="brotli" >}}
In this case we explicitly disable content compression by setting content encoding to
an `Identity` value:
{{< include-example example="responses" file="identity.rs" section="identity" >}}
When dealing with an already compressed body (for example when serving assets),
set the content encoding to `Identity` to avoid compressing the already compressed
data and set the `content-encoding` header manually:
{{< include-example example="responses" file="identity_two.rs" section="identity-two" >}}
Also it is possible to set default content encoding on application level, by
default `ContentEncoding::Auto` is used, which implies automatic content compression
negotiation.
{{< include-example example="responses" file="auto.rs" section="auto" >}}
# JSON Response
The `Json` type allows to respond with well-formed JSON data: simply return a value of
type Json<T> where `T` is the type of a structure to serialize into *JSON*.
The type `T` must implement the `Serialize` trait from *serde*.
{{< include-example example="responses" file="json_resp.rs" section="json-resp" >}}
# Chunked transfer encoding
Chunked encoding on a response can be enabled with `HttpResponseBuilder::chunked()`.
This takes effect only for `Body::Streaming(BodyStream)` or `Body::StreamingContext` bodies.
If the response payload compression is enabled and a streaming body is used, chunked encoding
is enabled automatically.
> Enabling chunked encoding for *HTTP/2.0* responses is forbidden.
{{< include-example example="responses" file="chunked.rs" section="chunked" >}}
[responsebuilder]: ../../actix-web/actix_web/dev/struct.HttpResponseBuilder.html