RFR: 8329829: HttpClient: Add a BodyPublishers.ofFileChannel method [v4]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:44:35 GMT, Volkan Yazici <vyazici at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Adds a new `ofFileChannel(FileChannel channel, long offset, long length)` method to `java.net.HttpRequest.BodyPublishers` to provide an `HttpClient` publisher to upload a certain region of a file. The new publisher does not modify the state of the passed `FileChannel`, streams the file channel bytes as it publishes (i.e., avoids reading the entire file into the memory), and can be leveraged to implement sliced uploads. As noted in the Javadoc:
>> 
>>> The file channel will not be closed upon completion. The caller is
>>> expected to manage the life cycle of the channel, and close it
>>> appropriately when not needed anymore.
>> 
>> ### Implementation notes
>> 
>> - `FileChannel` is preferred over `{Readable,Seekable}ByteChannel`, since the latter does not provide a positional read without modifying the state of the `FileChannel`, which is necessary to use a single `FileChannel` instance to implement sliced uploads.
>> - `ofFileChannel(FileChannel,long,long)` is preferred over `ofPath(Path,long,long)` to avoid overloading the maximum file descriptor limit of the platform.
>
> Volkan Yazici has updated the pull request incrementally with six additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Fix typo in `Utils::getBufferWithAtMost` Javadoc
>  - Link to `BUFSIZE` in `Utils::getBuffer` Javadoc
>  - Improve wording for signaling request cancellation
>  - Remove synchronization for `FileChannelIterator`
>  - Improve exception handling and documentation for `ofFileChannel`
>  - Add `@since 26` to `ofFileChannel`

test/jdk/java/net/httpclient/FileChannelPublisherTest.java line 439:

> 437:             HttpRequest request = pair
> 438:                     .requestBuilder
> 439:                     .POST(ofFileChannel(fileChannel, fileChannelOffset, fileChannelLength))

I think it would be better to not add a static import for this method and instead use `BodyPublishers.ofFileChannel(...)` to make it easily visible what this method is (especially because this test has a similarly named `withFileChannel(...)` method).

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26155#discussion_r2235047413