[erlang-questions] COWBOY

[Loïc Hoguin]

Nothing automatic.

It's like this so you can process on the fly and avoid having a gigabyte 
file in memory.

On 01/23/2016 09:32 PM, Theepan wrote:
> Team,
>
> The following is the code fragment to read the body of a multipart data
> (as per the documentation), when it is the contents of a uploaded file.
>
> stream_file(Req) ->
>    case cowboy_req:part_body(Req) of
>      {ok, Body, Req2} ->
>        {ok, Body, Req2};
>      {more, Body, Req2} ->
>        stream_file(Req2)
>    end.
>
> The question is, when the {more, Body, Req2} case clause is reached,
> should the 'Body' need to get concatenated like <<OldBody/binary,
> Body/binary>>, OR when looped, the library collects the next pieces of
> chunks into the 'Body' automatically?
>
> Thanks,
> Theepan
>
>
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