toStrictEntity

Signature

def toStrictEntity(timeout: FiniteDuration): Directive0

Description

Transforms the request entity to strict entity before it is handled by the inner route.

A timeout parameter is given and if the stream isn’t completed after the timeout, the directive will be failed.

Warning

The directive will read the request entity into memory within the size limit(8M by default) and effectively disable streaming. The size limit can be configured globally with akka.http.parsing.max-content-length or overridden by wrapping with withSizeLimit or withoutSizeLimit directive.

Example

import scala.concurrent.duration._
val route = toStrictEntity(3.seconds) {
  extractRequest { req =>
    req.entity match {
      case strict: HttpEntity.Strict =>
        complete(s"Request entity is strict, data=${strict.data.utf8String}")
      case _ =>
        complete("Ooops, request entity is not strict!")
    }
  }
}

// tests:
val dataBytes = Source.fromIterator(() ⇒ Iterator.range(1, 10).map(x ⇒ ByteString(x.toString)))
Post("/", HttpEntity(ContentTypes.`text/plain(UTF-8)`, data = dataBytes)) ~> route ~> check {
  responseAs[String] shouldEqual "Request entity is strict, data=123456789"
}