[hunchentoot-devel] Problem with (setf (hunchentoot:reply-external-format*) ...)

[Hans Hübner]

Hello Raymond,

can you let us know what you mean by "abort".  An error message and
backtrace would be most helpful.

Thanks,
Hans

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Raymond Wiker <rwiker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Update: I checked the value of
> hunchentoot:*hunchentoot-default-external-format*, which gave me a
> hint that I needed to pass something else than just a keyword
> symbol...
>
> (setf (hunchentoot:reply-external-format*)
> (flexi-streams:make-external-format :utf-8))
>
> appears to work.
>
> In case it matters: this is using Lispworks 6.0.1 (Professional,
> 32-bit) under Windows 7.
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Raymond Wiker <rwiker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have (finally!) updated my local installation of hunchentoot.
>> Testing indicates that things work as expected, except for one thing:
>> calling
>> (setf (hunchentoot:reply-external-format*) ...) in a request handler
>> causes the request to abort. This is probably not a big issue, since I
>> probably don't need to set the external format (it appears to get the
>> right value automatically).
>>
>> I'm reporting it here because it may actually be caused by a bug;
>> alternatively, it could be that I'm doing something stupid, which
>> would then be useful to know.
>>
>> The code snippet below works (after making an easy-acceptor). Removing
>> the #+nil causes it to break.
>>
>> (hunchentoot:define-easy-handler
>>    (test :uri "/test")
>>    (foo)
>>  (setf (hunchentoot:content-type*) "text/plain")
>>  #+nil (setf (hunchentoot:reply-external-format*) :utf-8)
>>  (format nil "Host: ~a~%Proto: ~a (~a)~%Script: ~a~%requrl: ~a~%foo: ~a"
>>          (hunchentoot:host)
>>          (hunchentoot:server-protocol*)
>>          (type-of (hunchentoot:server-protocol*))
>>          (hunchentoot:script-name*)
>>          (hunchentoot:request-uri*)
>>          foo))
>
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