The old undocumented API is removed entirely.
While a documentation exists for the new API, it will not
be considered set in stone until further testing has been
performed, and a file upload example has been added.
The new API should be a little more efficient than the
old API, especially with smaller messages.
* Parsing code was moved to cowlib: cowboy_qs:parse_qs/1
* A function was added to build query strings: cowboy_qs:qs/1
* Also added cowboy_qs:urlencode/1 and cowboy_qsurldecode/1
Changes include:
* Much simplified route configuration.
* Etag generation is now enabled by default.
* Web mimetypes are now detected by default. A bigger list of
mimetypes can be detected without any additional library.
* Mimetypes can no longer be specified as a list. Copying this
list for new connections is too costy. You can easily convert
it into a function and pass that function to the handler instead.
* You can however specify a single hardcoded mimetype. Mostly
useful when serving a single file, like an index.html file,
to avoid extra operations.
* Specifying a path as a list of tokens is not possible anymore.
Use either a binary or a string.
* Using a private directory will not work if the application
was not started properly. Cowboy will not attempt to find
the location of this directory if the VM doesn't know it,
as this caused issues in some setups.
* Overall the code has been much simplified and clarified,
and of course has now been documented.
The code for parsing has also been rewritten to be more efficient
and to be able to handle cookie values with space inside them properly.
Update cowlib to 0.2.0.
First and foremost: yes, you can still use Cowboy as a rebar dependency.
This commit only removes the use of rebar when *developing* Cowboy, not
when *using* Cowboy.
Over the past two years I went from very happy with rebar to unsatisfied
and most recently found it counter productive in many ways, from having
insane default configuration to various unefficient operations. The earlier
reversal from 'rebar ct' to 'ct_run' made my workflow much more natural,
as I always needed to look at 'logs/raw.log' to find out what was wrong,
anyway. Why not let 'ct_run' output it directly instead? Removing rebar
made my life easier.
If you wonder why I don't patch rebar, there's two reasons. First is that
the direction taken by rebar isn't compatible with my views, and this
would be a huge fight to steer it in another direction. I got other,
more important fights to make. Second is that I'd rather patch OTP so
that everyone benefits from it, not just users of rebar.
Anyway this isn't my personal blog so I will stop babbling here. There's
a few important things to note relative to this commit:
* You don't need rebar to work on Cowboy anymore
* The eunit tests are now ran through common_test
Ping me if it doesn't work out for you.
This removes a bunch of unneeded code, including code that was
made for R14 which we don't support anymore.
Note that the dependency on Ranch was updated, so you will need
to update Ranch for the new code to work.
This change makes the dependency on quoted optional
by adding a minimal urldecode function to cowboy.
A protocol option for setting the urldecoding function
has been added to the cowboy_http_protocol module.
The default value for this option is set to be
equivalent to the default settings for quoted.
{fun cowboy_http:urldecode/2, crash}
A note has been added in the README to document
how to use quoted instead of this function.
A field to store this option value has been added
to the state record in the cowboy_http_protocol
module and the http_req record in include/http.hrl
Functions that previously used quoted:from_url/1
has been updated to require an equivalent function
in addition to the previously required arguments.
This change removes a C compiler from the build
requirements of cowboy. It also removes the requirement
to cross compile the code if the target arch/OS
is different from the arch/OS used to build it.
