@ -137,6 +137,69 @@ There are two types of callbacks:
Callbacks must return 0 on success. Returning a non-zero value indicates
error to the parser, making it exit immediately.
For cases where it is necessary to pass local information to/from a callback,
the `http_parser` object's `data` field can be used.
An example of such a case is when using threads to handle a socket connection,
parse a request, and then give a response over that socket. By instantiation
of a thread-local struct containing relevant data (e.g. accepted socket,
allocated memory for callbacks to write into, etc), a parser's callbacks are
able to communicate data between the scope of the thread and the scope of the
callback in a threadsafe manner. This allows http-parser to be used in
multi-threaded contexts.
Example:
```
typedef struct {
socket_t sock;
void* buffer;
int buf_len;
} custom_data_t;
int my_url_callback(http_parser* parser, const char *at, size_t length) {
/* access to thread local custom_data_t struct.
Use this access save parsed data for later use into thread local
buffer, or communicate over socket
*/
parser->data;
...
return 0;
}
...
void http_parser_thread(socket_t sock) {
int nparsed = 0;
/* allocate memory for user data */
custom_data_t *my_data = malloc(sizeof(custom_data_t));
/* some information for use by callbacks.
* achieves thread -> callback information flow * /
my_data->sock = sock;
/* instantiate a thread-local parser */
http_parser *parser = malloc(sizeof(http_parser));
http_parser_init(parser, HTTP_REQUEST); /* initialise parser */
/* this custom data reference is accessible through the reference to the
parser supplied to callback functions */
parser->data = my_data;
http_parser_settings settings; / * set up callbacks * /
settings.on_url = my_url_callback;
/* execute parser */
nparsed = http_parser_execute(parser, & settings, buf, recved);
...
/* parsed information copied from callback.
can now perform action on data copied into thread-local memory from callbacks.
achieves callback -> thread information flow */
my_data->buffer;
...
}
```
In case you parse HTTP message in chunks (i.e. `read()` request line
from socket, parse, read half headers, parse, etc) your data callbacks
may be called more than once. Http-parser guarantees that data pointer is only