[hunchentoot-devel] Customising PROCESS-REQUEST for continuous output

[Samium Gromoff]

Good day folks,

I would like to employ a handler which continuously writes to the socket
stream, so that the appended output becomes immediately available to the
page viewer.  Basically, I'm building a buildbot for CL libraries, and
the build process can be long, so I want the feedback to be available
as immediately as possible.

So, I look at PROCESS-REQUEST and I see that the handler returns
before any output is written to the stream.  My understanding is that
I need to customize PROCESS-REQUEST, unless I want to take over header
generation and can tolerate headers re-appended after my output.

The easiest way would appear to be subclassing REQUEST and providing
a modified method for PROCESS-REQUEST.  But it appears that this
is impossible to do without affecting all handlers using the same
acceptor, as the class of the request employed is the property
of the acceptor -- as is mandated by PROCESS-CONNECTION -- which,
again, dispatches on the acceptor.

So, there appears to be no way to customise hunchentoot in this
regard, without changing its request processing workings.

Or am I just missing something?


regards,
  Samium Gromoff
--
P.S.  In case this sounds negative -- it wasn't so intended.
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