ResponseWriter

ResponseWriter

An abstraction around writing data to a remote peer. Conform to this protocol and inject it into the Response for responding to a remote peer at a later point in time.

public protocol ResponseWriter

Be sure to call writeEnd when you are finished writing data or the client response will never complete.

Requirements

writeHead(status:​_:​)

Write the status and head of a response. Should only be called once.

func writeHead(status: HTTPResponseStatus, _ headers: HTTPHeaders)

Parameters

• status: The status code of the response.
• headers: Any headers of this response.

writeBody(_:​)

Write some body data to the remote peer. May be called 0 or more times.

func writeBody(_ body: ByteBuffer)

Parameters

• body: The buffer of data to write.

writeEnd()

Write the end of the response. Needs to be called once per response, when all data has been written.

func writeEnd()