This Month in hyper: October 2022
As the leaves change and fall, our wonderful contributors continue to make hyper ever better!
Releases
hyper v1.0.0-rc.1
After so much work through this year, we finally published the first release candidate for hyper 1.0, hyper v1.0.0-rc.1!
The community had some wonderful things to say:
Parking in a stable stop is such a lovely metaphor for library evolution, love it!
Very exciting, this is a huge milestone for the maturity of Rust’s web-facing ecosystem. :)
all aboard the hype® train! 🚂
As the announcement post said, we’ve got more to do. We’re moving into the hyper polish period. I’ll have more to say about that soon! But you can join us in chat now if you want to help out.
hyper v0.14.21
We also published v0.14.21, to bring some fixes and features to the more stable branch. This included advanced TCP Server options, an option to ignore invalid header lines, and some more bug fixes.
Part of the 1.0 plan is to backport as much as possible to 0.14, in an effort to make upgrading easier. So you’ll still see 0.14.x releases along the way.
hyper 1.0
In order to publish the first release candidate, hyper v1.0.0-rc.1, there was a bunch of work to finish up.
@Michael-J-Ward created the per-version Connection types for the server module. And then I finished up the split by removing the combined hyper::server::conn::Connection type. @bossmc then removed an unneeded Option wrapping the internals of hyper::server::conn::http1::Connection, and dropped the try_into_parts method.
@LucioFranco refactored out the hyper::body::aggregate functions into a Collected type in http-body-util. I was able to use those to upgrade hyper with the new Body trait design that works on frames, making it forwards-compatible. I also finished up the bike-shaving to determine the name of the body type hyper returns, settling on hyper::body::Incoming.
hyper in curl
@dannasman cleaned up a feature we ended up not needing: the ability to get the raw response bytes. curl ended up preferring using the parsed response fields, keeping the parsing in Rust.
Are you interested in helping to debug the last few unit tests for hyper in curl?
HTTP/3
We’re working on HTTP/3 in a separate crate, h3, with the goal of fitting it into hyper.
@g2p documented the entire public API for the h3 and h3-quinn crates. @eagr refined the compliance report generation, and exception reasons. In tower-h3, @eager made use of the new Body trait from the hyper rc1, and better use of Endpoint.
Tower
Tower (and tower-http) are a protocol-agnostic RPC framework with middleware, and they combine nicely with hyper.
@jplatte implemented Layer for tuples up to 16 elements, such that a tuple of layers is similar to using ServiceBuilder. @samvrlewis added methods to ReadyCache to allow iterating over the ready services, and implemented Clone fordiscover::Change. @boraarslan added a trait Budget, so that the retry middlware revamp can allow swappable budget implementations.
@82marbag introduced a new TimeoutBody middleware to wrap HTTP requests and/or responses in a body type that will timeout reads. This adds onto the existing main timeout middleware, which just times out waiting for response headers.
