Shipping an official HTTP client in Netty (NETTY-333)

["이희승 (Trustin Lee)"]

Hi Kevin,

Wouldn't other existing libraries like async-http-client from 
Jean-francois Arcand work for you?

https://github.com/sonatype/async-http-client

Cheers

Kevin Burton wrote:
 > I was looking at NETTY-333 (and have been thinking about this a bit
 > lately)
 >
 > 
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/NETTY-333?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel#issue-tabs
 >
 > ... and I think Netty should ship an official HTTP client. Not just an
 > example.
 >
 > This would be a replacement for java.net.URL or say Jakarta HttpClient.
 >
 > This would have the following advantages:
 >
 > 1. More people would be able to use Netty. Right now Netty is mostly
 > an API for building clients and servers but this would mean that
 > people can use Netty out of the box for their usages.
 >
 > 2. The client would use best practices and avoid common bugs. I built
 > a client in Peregrine that uses Netty and I've already been bitten by
 > a few issues I didn't anticipate.
 >
 > 3. Developers would benefit from bugs fixed in the client moving
 > forward as they are fixed.
 >
 > I also think we may need to build a different type of client that
 > isn't necessarily fully async.
 >
 > What I did with peregrine (as it fits directly into the model I need)
 > is that we write to a buffer from the main thread. The buffer then
 > writes to Netty which then does Async IO (this is an HTTP PUT
 > client). The great thing about this model is that if the receiver
 > can't handle the data being sent to it, the client just blocks.
 >
 > In our usage we often write from 1 client to N servers. Anywhere from
 > 10-1000 ... so the async buys us the ability to not need 1k threads
 > doing the IO.
 >
 > Thoughts?
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