On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Mike Bryant <mikesn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Endre - that's perfect. The prefixAndTail with zero prefix was the
> missing ingredient I needed to transform the whole source within a separate
> flow (maybe there's a case for adding that as another specific
> "mapSource"-type method?).
>

The prefixAndTail with zero prefix is a nifty trick, and I actually
contemplated to have it exposed as a method called "lift", but in our
experience, source-of-sources type of streams very easily end up in
deadlocks, leaked resources, etc. Just think about akka-http and unconsumed
entity bytes. Hence, we don't really advertise it, but if someone really
needs it and there is no alternative, then there is the prefixAndTail-zero
trick.

-Endre


>
> Best,
> ~Mike
>
> On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 22:20:58 UTC+1, drewhk wrote:
>
>>
>> Using Akka HTTP and streams I can take a Source[ByteString, _] and using
>>> it as the body entity for a POST request to some HTTP endpoint, yielding
>>> some response. I'd like to abstract this into an Akka streams *Sink* I
>>> can run with said Source and materialise to, for example, the HTTP status
>>> code (or the response body.) The goal is reusability - to be able to write
>>> to, say, stdout (via StreamConverters.fromOutputStream), or HTTP, or
>>> both (the same way I can pipe to Curl.)
>>>
>>> Having become a bit familiar with the streams API I'm a quite stumped as
>>> to how to do this, if it it's even possible at present. If it is possible,
>>> would anyone be able to offer some advice or a general outline on how to
>>> achieve it?
>>>
>>
>> Just a quick attempt (didn't try any of these):
>>
>> bytesSrc // Source[ByteString, NotUsed]
>>   .prefixAndTail(0).map(_._2) // Source[Source[ByteString, NotUsed],
>> NotUsed]
>>   .map(bytes => HttpRequest(..., body = bytes)) // Source[HttpRequest,
>> NotUsed]
>>   .via(HttpConnection) // Source[HttpResponse, NotUsed]
>>   .to(Sink.head) // RunnableGraph[Future[HttpResponse]]
>>
>> You can make it a Sink if you don't start from a Source but a Flow
>> instead:
>>
>> val postSink = Flow[ByteString]
>>   .prefixAndTail(0).map(_._2)
>>   .map(bytes => HttpRequest(..., body = bytes))
>>   .via(HttpConnection)
>>   .to(Sink.head) // Sink[Future[HttpResponse]]
>>
>> Now you can do:
>>
>>   val responseFuture = myBytes.runWith(postSink)
>>   val another = responseFuture.entityBytes.runWith(postSink)
>>   // Don't forget to consume the response body of the HttpResponse!!!! If
>> you don't need it, then probably better consume it in the Sink itself and
>> only expose status code etc.
>>
>> Done.
>>
>> -Endre
>>
>>
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