Streaming Response

[ipsi]

Having been attempting to do some integration testing against a service that was using Twitters streaming API, I was hoping to use MockHTTP to do that, but it didn't work out so well, since as soon as the connection was closed, everything fell over in a horrible fashion. As such, I have made some modifications so that it is possible to create a connection to the mock service and have that connection stay open until we're done with it, and to send a "Keep Alive" chunk (basically a blank string) every so often.

This is my first draft of the code, so it might be a little wonky.

[swankjesse]

nit: configure your editor to use 2 space indents & avoid tabs.

[swankjesse]

I don't think we want this feature. You can already accomplish it with the throttled transfer, right?

[ipsi]

@swankjesse Yes, you can, and this code only works by luck, so will close the pull request. I may raise another, smaller, one for adding some utility changes around this, though, and maybe some examples of how to do it, as it took me a while to click that it would always pause after writing out a set if bytes if the body was throttled, even if you'd written out the entire response - I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, which is what I needed: some way to keep the connection open for a second or two after writing out the body to give everything a chance to process.

[swankjesse]

Glad it's working for you. Thanks @ipsi. Looking forward to the follow up.