Method ReadBody

src/httpserver.cpp:536–554

}

std::string HTTPRequest::ReadBody()
{
    struct evbuffer* buf = evhttp_request_get_input_buffer(req);
    if (!buf)
        return "";
    size_t size = evbuffer_get_length(buf);
    /** Trivial implementation: if this is ever a performance bottleneck,
     * internal copying can be avoided in multi-segment buffers by using
     * evbuffer_peek and an awkward loop. Though in that case, it'd be even
     * better to not copy into an intermediate string but use a stream
     * abstraction to consume the evbuffer on the fly in the parsing algorithm.
     */
    const char* data = (const char*)evbuffer_pullup(buf, size);
    if (!data) // returns nullptr in case of empty buffer
        return "";
    std::string rv(data, size);
    evbuffer_drain(buf, size);
    return rv;
}

void HTTPRequest::WriteHeader(const std::string& hdr, const std::string& value)
{