[hunchentoot-devel] Patch Submission: Custom Reason Phrases

[Kari Lentz]

Included is a patch that incorporates the ability to have a request  specific 
reason phrase that allows one to use code such along the lines  of

 (setf (return-code*) (make-custom-status 500 "some database query error")))

This  would override the templates and the cooked messages but only for that  
request and is intended to be an answer to the "StatusDescription"  member of 
the HTTPResponse class in the ASP.NET library.  Essentially, a custom-status-t 
class has been added that  links a code with a reason phrase.  The 
"make-custom-status" function  above is just a constructor to this new class. 
The "reason-phrase"  function is now a generic method that dispatches off both 
the  custom-status-t class and the previous numeric status codes to be  backward  
compatible.

I also ended up changing the error code dispatch to  be CLOS based using eql 
dispatch instead of a case statement for the  various http-status-code values.  
It seems to be a trend to use generic  functions instead of a case statement in 
this situation, probably  because of a hash table type dispatch is used behind 
the scenes rather  than going from start to finish as in a case statement.

Cheers,

Kari 
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