Perhaps headers like these would make more sense?

Content-Encoding: recordio
Content-Type: application/x-json-stream

Multiple encoding values could be present to indicate compression, etc.
On Aug 28, 2015 10:43 AM, "Anand Mazumdar" <an...@mesosphere.io> wrote:

> Dario,
>
> Can you shed a bit more light on what you still find puzzling about the
> CURL behavior after my explanation ?
>
> PS: A single HTTP chunk can have 0 or more Mesos (Scheduler API) Events.
> So in your example, the first chunk had complete information about the
> first “event”, followed by partial information about the subsequent event
> from another chunk.
>
> As for the benefit of using RecordIO format here, how else do you think we
> could have de-marcated two events in the response ?
>
> -anand
>
>
> On Aug 28, 2015, at 10:01 AM, dario.re...@me.com wrote:
>
> Anand,
>
> thanks for the explanation. I'm still a little puzzled why curl behaves so
> strange. I will check how other client behave as soon as I have a chance.
>
> Vinod,
>
> what exactly is the benefit of using recordio here? Doesn't it make the
> content-type somewhat wrong? If I send 'Accept: application/json' and
> receive 'Content-Type: application/json', I actually expect to receive only
> json in the message.
>
> Thanks,
> Dario
>
> On 28.08.2015, at 18:13, Vinod Kone <vinodk...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> I'm happy to add the "\n" after the event (note it's different from chunk)
> if that makes CURL play nicer. I'm not sure about the "\r" part though? Is
> that a nice to have or does it have some other benefit?
>
> The design doc is not set in the stone since this has not been released
> yet. So definitely want to do the right/easy thing.
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Anand Mazumdar <an...@mesosphere.io>
> wrote:
>
>> Dario,
>>
>> Thanks for the detailed explanation and for trying out the new API.
>> However, this is not a bug. The output from CURL is the encoding used by
>> Mesos for the events stream. From the user doc
>> <https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/master/docs/scheduler_http_api.md>:
>>
>> *"Master encodes each Event in RecordIO format, i.e., string
>> representation of length of the event in bytes followed by JSON or binary
>> Protobuf  (possibly compressed) encoded event. Note that the value of
>> length will never be ‘0’ and the size of the length will be the size of
>> unsigned integer (i.e., 64 bits). Also, note that the RecordIO encoding
>> should be decoded by the scheduler whereas the underlying HTTP chunked
>> encoding is typically invisible at the application (scheduler) layer.“*
>>
>> If you run CURL with tracing enabled i.e. —trace, the output would be
>> something similar to this:
>>
>> <= Recv header, 2 bytes (0x2)
>> 0000: 0d 0a                                           ..
>> <= Recv data, 115 bytes (0x73)
>> 0000: 36 64 0d 0a 31 30 35 0a 7b 22 73 75 62 73 63 72 6d..105.{"subscr
>> 0010: 69 62 65 64 22 3a 7b 22 66 72 61 6d 65 77 6f 72 ibed":{"framewor
>> 0020: 6b 5f 69 64 22 3a 7b 22 76 61 6c 75 65 22 3a 22 k_id":{"value":"
>> 0030: 32 30 31 35 30 38 32 35 2d 31 30 33 30 31 38 2d 20150825-103018-
>> 0040: 33 38 36 33 38 37 31 34 39 38 2d 35 30 35 30 2d 3863871498-5050-
>> 0050: 31 31 38 35 2d 30 30 31 30 22 7d 7d 2c 22 74 79 1185-0010"}},"ty
>> 0060: 70 65 22 3a 22 53 55 42 53 43 52 49 42 45 44 22 pe":"SUBSCRIBED"
>> 0070: 7d 0d 0a                                        }..
>> <others
>>
>> In the output above, the chunks are correctly delimited by ‘CRLF' (0d 0a)
>> as per the HTTP RFC. As mentioned earlier, the output that you observe on
>> stdout with CURL is of the Record-IO encoding used for the events stream (
>> and is not related to the RFC ):
>>
>> event = event-size LF
>>              event-data
>>
>> Looking forward to more bug reports as you try out the new API !
>>
>> -anand
>>
>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 12:56 AM, Dario Rexin <dario.re...@me.com> wrote:
>>
>> -1 (non-binding)
>>
>> I found a breaking bug in the new HTTP API. The messages do not conform
>> to the HTTP standard for chunked transfer encoding. in RFC 2616 Sec. 3 (
>> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html) a chunk is
>> defined as:
>>
>> chunk = chunk-size [ chunk-extension ] CRLF
>>         chunk-data CRLF
>>
>>
>> The HTTP API currently sends a chunk as:
>>
>> chunk = chunk-size LF
>>         chunk-data
>>
>>
>> A standard conform HTTP client like curl can’t correctly interpret the
>> data as a complete chunk. In curl it currently looks like this:
>>
>> 104
>>
>> {"subscribed":{"framework_id":{"value":"20150820-114552-16777343-5050-43704-0000"}},"type":"SUBSCRIBED"}20
>> {"type":"HEARTBEAT”}666
>> …. waiting …
>>
>> {"offers":{"offers":[{"agent_id":{"value":"20150820-114552-16777343-5050-43704-S0"},"framework_id":{"value":"20150820-114552-16777343-5050-43704-0000"},"hostname":"localhost","id":{"value":"20150820-114552-16777343-5050-43704-O0"},"resources":[{"name":"cpus","role":"*","scalar":{"value":8},"type":"SCALAR"},{"name":"mem","role":"*","scalar":{"value":15360},"type":"SCALAR"},{"name":"disk","role":"*","scalar":{"value":2965448},"type":"SCALAR"},{"name":"ports","ranges":{"range":[{"begin":31000,"end":32000}]},"role":"*","type":"RANGES"}],"url":{"address":{"hostname":"localhost","ip":"127.0.0.1","port":5051},"path":"\/slave(1)","scheme":"http"}}]},"type":"OFFERS”}20
>> … waiting …
>> {"type":"HEARTBEAT”}20
>> … waiting …
>>
>> It will receive a couple of messages after successful registration with
>> the master and the last thing printed is a number (in this case 666). Then
>> after some time it will print the first offers message followed by the
>> number 20. The explanation for this behavior is, that curl can’t interpret
>> the data it gets from Mesos as a complete chunk and waits for the missing
>> data. So it prints what it thinks is a chunk (a message followed by the
>> size of the next messsage) and keeps the rest of the message until another
>> message arrives and so on. The fix for this is to terminate both lines, the
>> message size and the message data, with CRLF.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dario
>>
>>
>>
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