# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ hpack/struct ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contains structures for representing header fields with associated metadata. """ class HeaderTuple(tuple): """ A data structure that stores a single header field. HTTP headers can be thought of as tuples of ``(field name, field value)``. A single header block is a sequence of such tuples. In HTTP/2, however, certain bits of additional information are required for compressing these headers: in particular, whether the header field can be safely added to the HPACK compression context. This class stores a header that can be added to the compression context. In all other ways it behaves exactly like a tuple. """ __slots__ = () indexable = True def __new__(cls, *args): return tuple.__new__(cls, args) class NeverIndexedHeaderTuple(HeaderTuple): """ A data structure that stores a single header field that cannot be added to a HTTP/2 header compression context. """ __slots__ = () indexable = False