161 lines
9.1 KiB
Go
161 lines
9.1 KiB
Go
// Copyright 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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// Use of this source code is governed by an MIT
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// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
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/*
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Package pipeline implements an HTTP request/response middleware pipeline whose
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policy objects mutate an HTTP request's URL, query parameters, and/or headers before
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the request is sent over the wire.
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Not all policy objects mutate an HTTP request; some policy objects simply impact the
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flow of requests/responses by performing operations such as logging, retry policies,
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timeouts, failure injection, and deserialization of response payloads.
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Implementing the Policy Interface
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To implement a policy, define a struct that implements the pipeline.Policy interface's Do method. Your Do
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method is called when an HTTP request wants to be sent over the network. Your Do method can perform any
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operation(s) it desires. For example, it can log the outgoing request, mutate the URL, headers, and/or query
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parameters, inject a failure, etc. Your Do method must then forward the HTTP request to next Policy object
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in a linked-list ensuring that the remaining Policy objects perform their work. Ultimately, the last Policy
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object sends the HTTP request over the network (by calling the HTTPSender's Do method).
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When an HTTP response comes back, each Policy object in the linked-list gets a chance to process the response
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(in reverse order). The Policy object can log the response, retry the operation if due to a transient failure
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or timeout, deserialize the response body, etc. Ultimately, the last Policy object returns the HTTP response
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to the code that initiated the original HTTP request.
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Here is a template for how to define a pipeline.Policy object:
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type myPolicy struct {
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node PolicyNode
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// TODO: Add configuration/setting fields here (if desired)...
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}
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func (p *myPolicy) Do(ctx context.Context, request pipeline.Request) (pipeline.Response, error) {
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// TODO: Mutate/process the HTTP request here...
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response, err := p.node.Do(ctx, request) // Forward HTTP request to next Policy & get HTTP response
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// TODO: Mutate/process the HTTP response here...
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return response, err // Return response/error to previous Policy
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}
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Implementing the Factory Interface
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Each Policy struct definition requires a factory struct definition that implements the pipeline.Factory interface's New
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method. The New method is called when application code wants to initiate a new HTTP request. Factory's New method is
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passed a pipeline.PolicyNode object which contains a reference to the owning pipeline.Pipeline object (discussed later) and
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a reference to the next Policy object in the linked list. The New method should create its corresponding Policy object
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passing it the PolicyNode and any other configuration/settings fields appropriate for the specific Policy object.
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Here is a template for how to define a pipeline.Policy object:
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// NOTE: Once created & initialized, Factory objects should be goroutine-safe (ex: immutable);
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// this allows reuse (efficient use of memory) and makes these objects usable by multiple goroutines concurrently.
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type myPolicyFactory struct {
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// TODO: Add any configuration/setting fields if desired...
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}
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func (f *myPolicyFactory) New(node pipeline.PolicyNode) Policy {
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return &myPolicy{node: node} // TODO: Also initialize any configuration/setting fields here (if desired)...
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}
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Using your Factory and Policy objects via a Pipeline
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To use the Factory and Policy objects, an application constructs a slice of Factory objects and passes
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this slice to the pipeline.NewPipeline function.
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func NewPipeline(factories []pipeline.Factory, sender pipeline.HTTPSender) Pipeline
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This function also requires an object implementing the HTTPSender interface. For simple scenarios,
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passing nil for HTTPSender causes a standard Go http.Client object to be created and used to actually
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send the HTTP response over the network. For more advanced scenarios, you can pass your own HTTPSender
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object in. This allows sharing of http.Client objects or the use of custom-configured http.Client objects
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or other objects that can simulate the network requests for testing purposes.
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Now that you have a pipeline.Pipeline object, you can create a pipeline.Request object (which is a simple
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wrapper around Go's standard http.Request object) and pass it to Pipeline's Do method along with passing a
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context.Context for cancelling the HTTP request (if desired).
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type Pipeline interface {
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Do(ctx context.Context, methodFactory pipeline.Factory, request pipeline.Request) (pipeline.Response, error)
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}
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Do iterates over the slice of Factory objects and tells each one to create its corresponding
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Policy object. After the linked-list of Policy objects have been created, Do calls the first
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Policy object passing it the Context & HTTP request parameters. These parameters now flow through
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all the Policy objects giving each object a chance to look at and/or mutate the HTTP request.
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The last Policy object sends the message over the network.
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When the network operation completes, the HTTP response and error return values pass
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back through the same Policy objects in reverse order. Most Policy objects ignore the
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response/error but some log the result, retry the operation (depending on the exact
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reason the operation failed), or deserialize the response's body. Your own Policy
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objects can do whatever they like when processing outgoing requests or incoming responses.
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Note that after an I/O request runs to completion, the Policy objects for that request
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are garbage collected. However, Pipeline object (like Factory objects) are goroutine-safe allowing
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them to be created once and reused over many I/O operations. This allows for efficient use of
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memory and also makes them safely usable by multiple goroutines concurrently.
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Inserting a Method-Specific Factory into the Linked-List of Policy Objects
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While Pipeline and Factory objects can be reused over many different operations, it is
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common to have special behavior for a specific operation/method. For example, a method
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may need to deserialize the response's body to an instance of a specific data type.
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To accommodate this, the Pipeline's Do method takes an additional method-specific
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Factory object. The Do method tells this Factory to create a Policy object and
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injects this method-specific Policy object into the linked-list of Policy objects.
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When creating a Pipeline object, the slice of Factory objects passed must have 1
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(and only 1) entry marking where the method-specific Factory should be injected.
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The Factory marker is obtained by calling the pipeline.MethodFactoryMarker() function:
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func MethodFactoryMarker() pipeline.Factory
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Creating an HTTP Request Object
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The HTTP request object passed to Pipeline's Do method is not Go's http.Request struct.
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Instead, it is a pipeline.Request struct which is a simple wrapper around Go's standard
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http.Request. You create a pipeline.Request object by calling the pipeline.NewRequest function:
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func NewRequest(method string, url url.URL, options pipeline.RequestOptions) (request pipeline.Request, err error)
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To this function, you must pass a pipeline.RequestOptions that looks like this:
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type RequestOptions struct {
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// The readable and seekable stream to be sent to the server as the request's body.
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Body io.ReadSeeker
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// The callback method (if not nil) to be invoked to report progress as the stream is uploaded in the HTTP request.
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Progress ProgressReceiver
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}
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The method and struct ensure that the request's body stream is a read/seekable stream.
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A seekable stream is required so that upon retry, the final Policy object can seek
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the stream back to the beginning before retrying the network request and re-uploading the
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body. In addition, you can associate a ProgressReceiver callback function which will be
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invoked periodically to report progress while bytes are being read from the body stream
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and sent over the network.
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Processing the HTTP Response
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When an HTTP response comes in from the network, a reference to Go's http.Response struct is
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embedded in a struct that implements the pipeline.Response interface:
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type Response interface {
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Response() *http.Response
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}
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This interface is returned through all the Policy objects. Each Policy object can call the Response
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interface's Response method to examine (or mutate) the embedded http.Response object.
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A Policy object can internally define another struct (implementing the pipeline.Response interface)
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that embeds an http.Response and adds additional fields and return this structure to other Policy
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objects. This allows a Policy object to deserialize the body to some other struct and return the
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original http.Response and the additional struct back through the Policy chain. Other Policy objects
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can see the Response but cannot see the additional struct with the deserialized body. After all the
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Policy objects have returned, the pipeline.Response interface is returned by Pipeline's Do method.
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The caller of this method can perform a type assertion attempting to get back to the struct type
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really returned by the Policy object. If the type assertion is successful, the caller now has
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access to both the http.Response and the deserialized struct object.*/
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package pipeline
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