Iris Data Types

Iris itself only has three structures defined in lull.hoon, but it also uses $http structures which are shared between Iris and Eyre. The $http structures are detailed in the Eyre Data Types documentation.

$client-response

+$  client-response
  $%
      $:  %progress
          =response-header:http
          bytes-read=@ud
          expected-size=(unit @ud)
          incremental=(unit octs)
      ==
      [%finished =response-header:http full-file=(unit mime-data)]
      [%cancel ~]
  ==

This structure represents data which Iris has fetched from a remote HTTP resource, and is what's returned in a %http-response gift (see the %request documentation for details) by Iris to the app or thread which requested it. There are three kinds of client-response - %progress, %finished and %cancel. A %progress client-response is a partial response, such as when an HTTP response is split into multiple separate chunks. A %finished client-response is the final complete, assembled and parsed HTTP response. A %cancel client-response is sent when the runtime cancels the request for some reason.

Note that at the time of writing, neither %progress nor %cancel client-responses are implemented, so in practice you'll only ever get a single %finished client-response.

In a %progress client-response, the $response-header:http contains the HTTP status code and headers. The bytes-read field is the total number of bytes fetched so far. The expected-size field is the total size specified in the content-length header if it has one. The incremental field is the data received since the last %http-response.

In a %finished client-response, the full-file is the complete body of the HTTP message as a (maybe) $mime-data.

$mime-data

+$  mime-data
  [type=@t data=octs]

Unvalidated mime data that has been fetched from a remote HTTP resource.

$outbound-config

+$  outbound-config
  $:
      redirects=_5
      retries=_3
  ==

This structure is used in a %request task to specify settings for an HTTP request. The redirects field specifies the number of redirects to automatically follow before failing, and defaults to 5. The retries field specifies the number of times to retry a failed request before giving up, and defaults to 3.

Note that at the time of writing, neither redirects nor retries have been implemented, so these settings will not do anything and you can just use the bunt value in all cases.