Implement send method to send content along with the request

src/examples/client/client.rs

@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 extern mod http;
 use http::client::RequestWriter;
-use http::method::Get;
+use http::method::{Get, Post};
 use http::headers::HeaderEnum;
 use std::str;
 use std::rt::io::extensions::ReaderUtil;
-use std::rt::io::net::ip::{SocketAddr, Ipv4Addr};
 
-fn main() {
-    let mut request = ~RequestWriter::new(Get, FromStr::from_str("http://localhost/example")
+fn get_request() {
+    let request = ~RequestWriter::new(Get, FromStr::from_str("http://httpbin.org/get")
                                                 .expect("Uh oh, that's *really* badly broken!"));
-    // Temporary measure, as hostname lookup is not yet supported in std::rt::io.
-    request.remote_addr = Some(SocketAddr { ip: Ipv4Addr(127, 0, 0, 1), port: 8001 });
+
     let mut response = match request.read_response() {
         Ok(response) => response,
         Err(_request) => fail!("This example can progress no further with no response :-("),
     };
+
     println("Yay! Started to get the response.");
     println!("Status: {}", response.status);
     println("Headers:");
@@ -25,3 +24,34 @@ fn main() {
     println("Response:");
     println(str::from_utf8(response.read_to_end()));
 }
+
+
+fn post_request() {
+    let mut request = ~RequestWriter::new(Post, FromStr::from_str("http://httpbin.org/post")
+                                                .expect("Uh oh, that's *really* badly broken!"));
+
+    request.send("Post It!".as_bytes());
+
+    let mut response = match request.read_response() {
+        Ok(response) => response,
+        Err(_request) => fail!("This example can progress no further with no response :-("),
+    };
+
+    println("Yay! Started to get the response.");
+    println!("Status: {}", response.status);
+    println("Headers:");
+    for header in response.headers.iter() {
+        println!(" - {}: {}", header.header_name(), header.header_value());
+    }
+
+    print("\n");
+    println("Response:");
+    println(str::from_utf8(response.read_to_end()));
+}
+
+fn main() {
+
+    get_request();
+
+    post_request();
+}

src/libhttp/client/request.rs

@@ -166,10 +166,33 @@ impl RequestWriter<TcpStream> {
         let s = format!("{} {} HTTP/1.0\r\n", self.method.to_str(), self.url.to_str());
         self.stream.write(s.as_bytes());
 
+        // `write_all` adds '\r\n' at the end, no
+        // need to terminate the headers section
+        // here.
         self.headers.write_all(&mut self.stream);
         self.headers_written = true;
     }
 
+    /// Send data to the remote server.
+    /// This method appends Content-Length
+    /// to headers and sends them. If headers
+    /// where already sent, it will send data
+    /// without the Content-Length.
+    // TODO: Implement chunked request, perhaps
+    // in a `send_chunked` method.
+    pub fn send(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) {
+
+        // NOTE: Should we make this fail?
+        // If 'Content-Length' is not sent
+        // some servers won't read the request
+        // body.
+        if !self.headers_written {
+            self.headers.content_length = Some(buf.len());
+            self.write_headers();
+        }
+        self.write(buf);
+    }
+
     // FIXME: ~self rather than self to work around a Rust bug in by-val self at present leading to
     // a segfault on calling construct().
     pub fn read_response(~self) -> Result<ResponseReader<TcpStream>, ~RequestWriter<TcpStream>> {
@@ -185,9 +208,13 @@ impl RequestWriter<TcpStream> {
 
 impl Writer for RequestWriter<TcpStream> {
     fn write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) {
-        if (!self.headers_written) {
-            self.write_headers();
-        }
+        // No data must be sent before
+        // sending headers. Let's make
+        // sure that's the case.
+        self.try_write_headers();
+
+        // Now we're good to send
+        // some data.
         self.stream.write(buf);
     }