From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Brooks Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?] Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 08:02:57 -0800 Message-ID: <87ft40piry.fsf@db48x.net> References: <15c3cc00-f56e-6e52-2228-30817639315a@gmail.com> <87v9cwek4u.fsf_-_@alphapapa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3047"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 20 17:03:39 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kr1BL-0000hn-1Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:03:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49486 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kr1BK-000655-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:03:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kr1Am-0005c0-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-out-4.mxes.net ([2605:d100:2f:10::315]:31837) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kr1Ak-0007Kl-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Customer-MUA (mua.mxes.net [10.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B2D17595A; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:02:58 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mxes.net; s=mta; t=1608480179; bh=6bh2Xo6NT76oDCDe9en9A2dAipPej0QQ5/yUah80SA4=; h=From:To:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=SvOMbZCLP3y1bcAmLayoSgtJ52wU8DdTJi3OYwpEDCcR5xCnCL7YIZzbHHMTeaPUK zfv/KC0LJZDB7Rabf7nWofIBUECNQscMlbDTOTN9b2PHzKWkLO3aJ5qzUSQDCBL96o CB73BriIqNg7naeOTaMHP2f4WwW3qBYba7/BNkzw= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAABGdBTUEAALGOfPtRkwAAABJQ TFRFpKfbdou67PD6JjJgAwUWXGSeIcyLHgAAAkZJREFUOI1VU8Fy6yAMxLi+Q13fCZ3cnQL3dqTc 7RD+/1feStDXVnXHDuvVSivZTMba2GPdw3gyCGcMAFxTyrTd9dwGoxHiZX9PmRFUHYAQlGGtXY+F Uk0SJOxgJiUEnH1qkitT9D+pQub7qGAmUbR6bu3CvI96Yv6QqkBBMrsyfZccr1/RDXGDTLf4P7ZY glVxe2V+/ACXWO1gvDO9/gDRpFFVmPluvLcmBjd5H6d8DEte+Pbk4rcY/Fa5tLKLOtCZsuQKYhpa LOkYDT7hESya7/WIET3lfQBqX0pwFtbI832Is0ayMUR9B+12xjgPCQ089cfwkCkX6L5TPmRelJTh zMS0Sz1PyjLAMCUWjcmgQLWQMds+e3aaauZDf9dU9A2/8kPVF2odCUoMKHkfjJR+mbgC+DRiycw5 3XSqGe6HmhN/AWjHypkAXOAFW5EiuA1ge2GiZuMb0s1fSEXcATeLUfbyEY2L8yPOmdSsdghQXx3K pz2eoeXuYvMCINVFDrCdNfVUp4eJ6cSEbjbgFjBEvonGGTrgv9cHjAc8aVgSAPoxaONbzfwhDIhR at7IIS7fAGiDSwIA9alhhTBzfA7YM2FY6eMwayrIGK8FDFmshmUA43WqhFtpvoqG9HHaJ7fqtgTz 8EWVkgZgtsylFliHDgk0MB7KAEC45C/rgnGvanNLXyzOeTzcT2nw/N44gfrtYXRQLoz9Q3TgmJRx 2Mx/Q51qzpm+l3m8z2SWBqC5+PZXAtNYlGFf/gKfHfjFkDT4x7od7R+w3Ls+ZdQBuQAAAABJRU5E rkJggg== In-Reply-To: (Helmut Eller's message of "Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:23:37 +0100") X-Sent-To: Received-SPF: none client-ip=2605:d100:2f:10::315; envelope-from=db48x@db48x.net; helo=smtp-out-4.mxes.net X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261337 Archived-At: Helmut Eller writes: > I think it's worth looking at the fetch API[1] for inspiration. > Especially using Javascript-like promises consistently would help. Many > people will be familiar with the Javascript API and it's just a lot > easier to steal a (non-perfect) design than to come up with something > better. > > Helmut > > [1] https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#fetch-api That is a good idea; the fetch API is quite nice. The URL[1] and URLSearchParams[2] APIs are also really important; they make it unnecessary to ever parse urls or build urls up through string concatenation. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLSearchParams