minetest/src/httpfetch.h

/*
Minetest
Copyright (C) 2013 celeron55, Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

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*/

#ifndef HTTPFETCH_HEADER
#define HTTPFETCH_HEADER

#include <vector>
#include "util/string.h"
#include "config.h"

// Can be used in place of "caller" in asynchronous transfers to discard result
// (used as default value of "caller")
#define HTTPFETCH_DISCARD 0
#define HTTPFETCH_SYNC 1

struct HTTPFetchRequest
{
	std::string url;

	// Identifies the caller (for asynchronous requests)
	// Ignored by httpfetch_sync
	unsigned long caller;

	// Some number that identifies the request
	// (when the same caller issues multiple httpfetch_async calls)
	unsigned long request_id;

	// Timeout for the whole transfer, in milliseconds
	long timeout;

	// Timeout for the connection phase, in milliseconds
	long connect_timeout;

	// Indicates if this is multipart/form-data or
	// application/x-www-form-urlencoded.  POST-only.
	bool multipart;

	// POST fields.  Fields are escaped properly.
	// If this is empty a GET request is done instead.
	StringMap post_fields;

	// Raw POST data, overrides post_fields.
	std::string post_data;

	// If not empty, should contain entries such as "Accept: text/html"
	std::vector<std::string> extra_headers;

	//useragent to use
	std::string useragent;

	HTTPFetchRequest();
};

struct HTTPFetchResult
{
	bool succeeded;
	bool timeout;
	long response_code;
	std::string data;
	// The caller and request_id from the corresponding HTTPFetchRequest.
	unsigned long caller;
	unsigned long request_id;

	HTTPFetchResult() :
		succeeded(false),
		timeout(false),
		response_code(0),
		data(""),
		caller(HTTPFETCH_DISCARD),
		request_id(0)
	{}

	HTTPFetchResult(const HTTPFetchRequest &fetch_request) :
		succeeded(false),
		timeout(false),
		response_code(0),
		data(""),
		caller(fetch_request.caller),
		request_id(fetch_request.request_id)
	{}

};

// Initializes the httpfetch module
void httpfetch_init(int parallel_limit);

// Stops the httpfetch thread and cleans up resources
void httpfetch_cleanup();

// Starts an asynchronous HTTP fetch request
void httpfetch_async(const HTTPFetchRequest &fetch_request);

// If any fetch for the given caller ID is complete, removes it from the
// result queue, sets the fetch result and returns true. Otherwise returns false.
bool httpfetch_async_get(unsigned long caller, HTTPFetchResult &fetch_result);

// Allocates a caller ID for httpfetch_async
// Not required if you want to set caller = HTTPFETCH_DISCARD
unsigned long httpfetch_caller_alloc();

// Allocates a non-predictable caller ID for httpfetch_async
unsigned long httpfetch_caller_alloc_secure();

// Frees a caller ID allocated with httpfetch_caller_alloc
// Note: This can be expensive, because the httpfetch thread is told
// to stop any ongoing fetches for the given caller.
void httpfetch_caller_free(unsigned long caller);

// Performs a synchronous HTTP request. This blocks and therefore should
// only be used from background threads.
void httpfetch_sync(const HTTPFetchRequest &fetch_request,
		HTTPFetchResult &fetch_result);


#endif // !HTTPFETCH_HEADER