Review Request 108685: Make it possible to overwrite content-lenght using metaData

[Àlex Fiestas]

> On Feb. 10, 2013, 8:43 p.m., Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > Why not simply use the KIO::http_post function that accepts a pointer to QIODevice ? All you have to do is set the pointer to NULL, pass the total total size to the ioslave and it should work for the scenario you outlined.
> > 
> > KIO::TransferJob* job = KIO::http_post(url, 0, size, flags);
> > job->setAsyncDataEnabled(true);
> > ...
> > ...
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> Àlex Fiestas wrote:
>     Right I coul do that, nevertheless don't you think that being able to overwrite the content-length as you do with everything else could be useful and handy?
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> Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
>     You can override a lot of things, but not everything. Anyhow, other than adding yet another HTTP meta-data which is really not that necessary at the moment, I have no other objection to adding this particular meta-data. I simply dislike the notion of adding a meta-data just for convenience.

Well, the solution you propose is quite tricky to find :/ I will test it during this week and see how it goes.

Besides that, maybe for KF5 we should revise this API and try to make it a little bit more easy to use.


- Àlex


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On Jan. 31, 2013, 4:15 p.m., Àlex Fiestas wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 31, 2013, 4:15 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs, Dawit Alemayehu and Andreas Hartmetz.
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> Description
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> When submitting a Content-Type: multipart/related using AsyncDataEnabled you need to specify the Content-Length of the whole thing you are trying to send, not just of the first chunk of the data. http::SendBody will append the Content-Length using the length of the first chunk of data automatically.
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> This patch adds the possibility of indicating the Content-Lenght using metadata "content-length".
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> Another option will be using the data set in "setTotalSize" in case it makes all the trip down to the kioslave.
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> Also, is there any case where we want AsyncDataEnabled but we don't need to specify the content-length? 
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> Diffs
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>   kioslave/http/http.cpp 2d139a9 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108685/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Àlex Fiestas
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