[HTTPCLIENT-1581] change scope of ContentResponseHandler or provide an alternative

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.4 Final
• Component/s: Fluent HC
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Shaun A Elliott
• Created: 21/Nov/14 17:55
• Updated: 04/May/17 09:49
• Resolved: 26/Nov/14 09:30

Description

As a developer using the apache fluent hc library I need to be able to get back both the http status code and the http response body.

When I try to do this now, I get an exception that "Response content has been already consumed".

The only way to get around this is to go back to the non-fluent api and get the HttpResponse, pull the entity, check it, etc. This is already done in ContentResponseHandler and is a clear DRY violation.

It would be much cleaner to expose ContentResponseHandler as a public class, so that it can be overriden, called from handleContent, etc. Or to add a new ResponseHandler that also provides other details like the response code.

Consider these stackoverflow questions as I'm not the only one who desires this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22409303/is-it-possible-to-get-both-the-status-code-and-the-body-content-when-using-apach

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14024625/how-to-get-httpclient-returning-status-code-and-response-body