RFR: 8329829: HttpClient: Add a BodyPublishers.ofFileChannel method [v5]

[Mikhail Yankelevich]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:32:17 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 one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Apply review feedback for `FileChannelPublisherTest`

test/jdk/java/net/httpclient/FileChannelPublisherTest.java line 27:

> 25:  * @test
> 26:  * @summary Verifies `HttpRequest.BodyPublishers::ofFileChannel`
> 27:  * @library /test/lib

Nit: Could you please add a `@bug` with id here?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26155#discussion_r2243093561