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title: Responses
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menu: docs_advanced
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weight: 210
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# Response
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A builder-like pattern is used to construct an instance of `HttpResponse`.
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`HttpResponse` provides several methods that return a `HttpResponseBuilder` instance,
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which implements various convenience methods for building responses.
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> Check the [documentation](../../actix-web/actix_web/dev/struct.HttpResponseBuilder.html)
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> for type descriptions.
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The methods `.body`, `.finish`, and `.json` finalize response creation and
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return a constructed *HttpResponse* instance. If this methods is called on the same
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builder instance multiple times, the builder will panic.
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{{< include-example example="responses" file="main.rs" section="builder" >}}
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# Content encoding
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Actix automatically *compresses* payloads. The following codecs are supported:
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* Brotli
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* Gzip
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* Deflate
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* Identity
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Response payload is compressed based on the *encoding* parameter from the
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`middleware::BodyEncoding` trait. By default, `ContentEncoding::Auto` is
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used. If `ContentEncoding::Auto` is selected, then the compression depends
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on the request's `Accept-Encoding` header.
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> `ContentEncoding::Identity` can be used to disable compression.
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> If another content encoding is selected, the compression is enforced for that codec.
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For example, to enable `brotli` use `ContentEncoding::Br`:
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{{< include-example example="responses" file="brotli.rs" section="brotli" >}}
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In this case we explicitly disable content compression
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by setting content encoding to a `Identity` value:
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{{< include-example example="responses" file="identity.rs" section="identity" >}}
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When dealing with an already compressed body (for example when serving assets),
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set the content encoding to `Identity` to avoid compressing the already compressed
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data and set the `content-encoding` header manually:
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{{< include-example example="responses" file="identity_two.rs" section="identity-two" >}}
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Also it is possible to set default content encoding on application level, by
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default `ContentEncoding::Auto` is used, which implies automatic content compression
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negotiation.
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{{< include-example example="responses" file="auto.rs" section="auto" >}}
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# JSON Response
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The `Json` type allows to respond with well-formed JSON data: simply return a value of
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type Json<T> where `T` is the type of a structure to serialize into *JSON*.
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The type `T` must implement the `Serialize` trait from *serde*.
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{{< include-example example="responses" file="json_resp.rs" section="json-resp" >}}
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# Chunked transfer encoding
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Chunked encoding on a response can be enabled with `HttpResponseBuilder::chunked()`.
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This takes effect only for `Body::Streaming(BodyStream)` or `Body::StreamingContext` bodies.
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If the response payload compression is enabled and a streaming body is used, chunked encoding
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is enabled automatically.
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> Enabling chunked encoding for *HTTP/2.0* responses is forbidden.
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{{< include-example example="responses" file="chunked.rs" section="chunked" >}}
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