JEP 321: HTTP Client (Standard)

[Chris Hegarty]

> On 4 Dec 2017, at 22:03, David Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> 
>>> You mention general-purpose concepts such as ByteBufferReference and
>>> ByteBufferPool. Note that these are tiny implementation classes (150 lines
>>> in total) and not exposed in the API.
>> 
>> Yes they are, currently - at least ByteBufferReference is at the heart of it:
>> 
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/6dcbdc9f99fc/src/jdk.incubator.httpclient/share/classes/jdk/incubator/http/AsyncConnection.java#l61
> 
> I see my error, this is a non-public interface.  Nonetheless, I'm not
> sure that it's really safe to say that this is ready.  Has there been
> _any_ external feedback on this API?


[ You can probably ignore my previous email, I sent it before receiving your reply. The confusion seems to have been resolved now. ]

Yes, there has been external feedback on the API. I’ll dig it up, I need to trawl the net-dev archives and JIRA issues.

For your, and others, reference, here is a snapshot of the latest API, built from the ‘http-client-branch’ of the sandbox:

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/httpclient/javadoc/api/jdk/incubator/http/package-summary.html <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/httpclient/javadoc/api/jdk/incubator/http/package-summary.html>

-Chris.


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