cutelyst 4.8.0
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Cutelyst::Response Class Referencefinal

A Cutelyst response. More...

#include <Cutelyst/Response>

Inheritance diagram for Cutelyst::Response:

Public Types

enum  CloseCode {
  CloseCodeNormal , CloseCodeGoingAway , CloseCodeProtocolError , CloseCodeDatatypeNotSupported ,
  CloseCodeReserved1004 , CloseCodeMissingStatusCode , CloseCodeAbnormalDisconnection , CloseCodeWrongDatatype ,
  CloseCodePolicyViolated , CloseCodeTooMuchData , CloseCodeMissingExtension , CloseCodeBadOperation ,
  CloseCodeTlsHandshakeFailed
}
 
enum  HttpStatus {
  Continue , SwitchingProtocols , OK , Created ,
  Accepted , NonAuthoritativeInformation , NoContent , ResetContent ,
  PartialContent , MultiStatus , MultipleChoices , MovedPermanently ,
  Found , SeeOther , NotModified , UseProxy ,
  TemporaryRedirect , PermanentRedirect , BadRequest , Unauthorized ,
  PaymentRequired , Forbidden , NotFound , MethodNotAllowed ,
  NotAcceptable , ProxyAuthenticationRequired , RequestTimeout , Conflict ,
  Gone , LengthRequired , PreconditionFailed , RequestEntityTooLarge ,
  RequestURITooLong , UnsupportedMediaType , RequestedRangeNotSatisfiable , ExpectationFailed ,
  InternalServerError , NotImplemented , BadGateway , ServiceUnavailable ,
  GatewayTimeout , HTTPVersionNotSupported , BandwidthLimitExceeded
}
 

Public Member Functions

virtual ~Response () override
 
QByteArray & body ()
 
QIODevice * bodyDevice () const noexcept
 
QByteArray contentEncoding () const noexcept
 
qint64 contentLength () const
 
QByteArray contentType () const
 
QByteArray contentTypeCharset () const
 
QVariant cookie (const QByteArray &name) const
 
QList< QNetworkCookie > cookies () const
 
bool hasBody () const noexcept
 
QByteArray header (const QByteArray &field) const noexcept
 
Headersheaders () noexcept
 
bool isFinalizedHeaders () const noexcept
 
bool isSequential () const noexcept override
 
QUrl location () const noexcept
 
void redirect (const QString &url, quint16 status=Found)
 
void redirect (const QUrl &url, quint16 status=Found)
 
void redirectSafe (const QUrl &url, const QUrl &fallback)
 
int removeCookies (const QByteArray &name)
 
void setBody (const QByteArray &body)
 
void setBody (const QString &body)
 
void setBody (QIODevice *body)
 
void setBody (QStringView body)
 
void setCborBody (const QByteArray &cbor)
 
void setCborValueBody (const QCborValue &value)
 
void setContentEncoding (const QByteArray &encoding)
 
void setContentLength (qint64 length)
 
void setContentType (const QByteArray &type)
 
void setCookie (const QNetworkCookie &cookie)
 
void setCookies (const QList< QNetworkCookie > &cookies)
 
void setHeader (const QByteArray &key, const QByteArray &value)
 
void setJsonArrayBody (const QJsonArray &array)
 
void setJsonBody (const QByteArray &json)
 
void setJsonBody (QStringView json)
 
void setJsonObjectBody (const QJsonObject &obj)
 
void setStatus (quint16 status) noexcept
 
qint64 size () const noexcept override
 
quint16 status () const noexcept
 
bool webSocketBinaryMessage (const QByteArray &message)
 
bool webSocketClose (quint16 code=Response::CloseCodeNormal, const QString &reason={})
 
bool webSocketHandshake (const QByteArray &key={}, const QByteArray &origin={}, const QByteArray &protocol={})
 
bool webSocketPing (const QByteArray &payload={})
 
bool webSocketTextMessage (const QString &message)
 

Protected Member Functions

 Response (const Headers &defaultHeaders, EngineRequest *conn=nullptr)
 
virtual qint64 readData (char *data, qint64 maxlen) override
 
virtual qint64 writeData (const char *data, qint64 len) override
 

Friends

class Application
 
class Context
 
class ContextPrivate
 
class Engine
 
class EngineConnection
 

Detailed Description

A Cutelyst response contains the data created by your application that should be send back to the requesting client.

Definition at line 28 of file response.h.

Member Enumeration Documentation

◆ CloseCode

This enum type specifies the status response to be sent to the client

Definition at line 82 of file response.h.

◆ HttpStatus

This enum type specifies the status response to be sent to the client

Definition at line 34 of file response.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ ~Response()

Response::~Response ( )
overridevirtual

Destroys the Response object.

Definition at line 61 of file response.cpp.

◆ Response()

Response::Response ( const Headers defaultHeaders,
EngineRequest conn = nullptr 
)
explicitprotected

Constructs a Response object, for engine request conn with defaultHeaders.

Definition at line 20 of file response.cpp.

Member Function Documentation

◆ body()

QByteArray & Response::body ( )

This function returns a reference to a QByteArray which implicity sets the body device to a QBuffer, even if one was already set.

Definition at line 86 of file response.cpp.

Referenced by Cutelyst::EngineRequest::finalizeBody(), setBody(), and setBody().

◆ bodyDevice()

QIODevice * Response::bodyDevice ( ) const
noexcept

Returns the body IO device (if any) of this response.

Definition at line 98 of file response.cpp.

Referenced by Cutelyst::EngineRequest::finalizeBody().

◆ contentEncoding()

QByteArray Response::contentEncoding ( ) const
noexcept

◆ contentLength()

qint64 Response::contentLength ( ) const

Short for headers().contentLength();

See also
Headers::contentLength()
setContentLength()

Definition at line 172 of file response.cpp.

◆ contentType()

QByteArray Response::contentType ( ) const

◆ contentTypeCharset()

QByteArray Response::contentTypeCharset ( ) const

Short for headers().contentTypeCharset();

See also
Headers::contentTypeCharset()

Definition at line 195 of file response.cpp.

◆ cookie()

QVariant Response::cookie ( const QByteArray &  name) const

Returns the first QNetworkCookie matching the name or a null QVariant if not found.

Definition at line 201 of file response.cpp.

Referenced by setCookie(), and setCookies().

◆ cookies()

QList< QNetworkCookie > Response::cookies ( ) const

Returns a list of all cookies set.

Definition at line 207 of file response.cpp.

Referenced by Cutelyst::EngineRequest::finalizeCookies(), and setCookies().

◆ hasBody()

bool Response::hasBody ( ) const
noexcept

Returns true if a body device has been defined as QByteArray or QIODevice or write() was called and it's on chunked mode.

Definition at line 79 of file response.cpp.

Referenced by Cutelyst::RenderView::doExecute().

◆ header()

QByteArray Cutelyst::Response::header ( const QByteArray &  field) const
noexcept

◆ headers()

Headers & Cutelyst::Response::headers ( )
noexcept

Returns a reference to the response headers class.

Referenced by Cutelyst::EngineRequest::finalizeCookies(), and Cutelyst::EngineRequest::finalizeHeaders().

◆ isFinalizedHeaders()

bool Cutelyst::Response::isFinalizedHeaders ( ) const
noexcept

Returns true if Headers are finalized (sent to the client).

◆ isSequential()

bool Cutelyst::Response::isSequential ( ) const
overridenoexcept

Writing to user-agent is always sequential.

◆ location()

QUrl Cutelyst::Response::location ( ) const
noexcept

Returns the HTTP location set by the redirect

Referenced by redirect().

◆ readData()

qint64 Response::readData ( char *  data,
qint64  maxlen 
)
overrideprotectedvirtual

Reimplemented from QIODevice::readData().

Definition at line 26 of file response.cpp.

◆ redirect() [1/2]

void Cutelyst::Response::redirect ( const QString &  url,
quint16  status = Found 
)

Causes the response to redirect to the specified URL. The default status is 302. This is a convenience method that sets the Location header to the redirect destination, and then sets the response status. You will want to return false or c->detach() to interrupt the normal processing flow if you want the redirect to occur straight away.

Note
Do not give a relative URL as $url, i.e: one that is not fully qualified ("http://...", etc.) or that starts with a slash "/path/here". While it may work, it is not guaranteed to do the right thing and is not a standard behaviour. You may opt to use uriFor() or uriForAction() instead.

◆ redirect() [2/2]

void Response::redirect ( const QUrl &  url,
quint16  status = Found 
)

Causes the response to redirect to the specified URL. The default status is 302. This is a convenience method that sets the Location header to the redirect destination, and then sets the response status. You will want to return false or c->detach() to interrupt the normal processing flow if you want the redirect to occur straight away.

Note
Do not give a relative URL as $url, i.e: one that is not fully qualified ("http://...", etc.) or that starts with a slash "/path/here". While it may work, it is not guaranteed to do the right thing and is not a standard behaviour. You may opt to use uriFor() or uriForAction() instead.

Definition at line 233 of file response.cpp.

References location(), setBody(), and status().

Referenced by Cutelyst::LangSelect::fromPath().

◆ redirectSafe()

void Cutelyst::Response::redirectSafe ( const QUrl &  url,
const QUrl &  fallback 
)

Open Redirect Vulnerability is when you get an user provided URL and redirect to it without checking if it's safe.

This can be used on login forms that receive some "redir" parameter that once logged in allows the user to go straight to that page instead of some home page.

It's then possible to receive a link like http://example.com/login?redir=http://exemple.com/login notice how both domain names are similar for malicious porpuses, once logged in it redirects to a similar login page that will pretent the auth didn't work, user might then type their credentials on that page.

This method validades that the url scheme, domain name and port are the same of the request to your server if it isn't it will send the user to fallback url that you know it's safe. If you need to redirect the user to some other domain/port validate the URL manually an use the regular

See also
redirect method instead.

◆ removeCookies()

int Response::removeCookies ( const QByteArray &  name)

Removes all cookies that matches name, returning the number of cookies removed

Definition at line 227 of file response.cpp.

◆ setBody() [1/4]

void Response::setBody ( const QByteArray &  body)

Sets a QByteArray as the response body, content length will be automatically set to it's size.

Definition at line 120 of file response.cpp.

References body().

◆ setBody() [2/4]

void Cutelyst::Response::setBody ( const QString &  body)
inline

Sets a QString as the response body, the output will be UTF-8 and content length will be automatically set to it's size.

Definition at line 430 of file response.h.

References setBody().

◆ setBody() [3/4]

void Response::setBody ( QIODevice *  body)

Sets an IO device as the response body, the open mode must be at least QIODevice::ReadOnly. This function takes ownership of your device deleting after the request has completed.

Definition at line 104 of file response.cpp.

References body().

Referenced by Cutelyst::EngineRequest::finalizeError(), Cutelyst::UA::forwardAsync(), Cutelyst::UA::forwardRequestResponse(), redirect(), Cutelyst::CuteleeView::render(), setBody(), and setBody().

◆ setBody() [4/4]

void Cutelyst::Response::setBody ( QStringView  body)
inline

Sets a QString as the response body, the output will be UTF-8 and content length will be automatically set to it's size.

Definition at line 435 of file response.h.

References setBody().

◆ setCborBody()

void Response::setCborBody ( const QByteArray &  cbor)

Sets a CBOR data as the response body, this method is provided for convenience as it sets the content-type to application/cbor.

Definition at line 126 of file response.cpp.

Referenced by setCborValueBody().

◆ setCborValueBody()

void Response::setCborValueBody ( const QCborValue &  value)

Sets a CBOR value without transformation as the response body, this method is provided for convenience as it sets the content-type to application/json.

Definition at line 133 of file response.cpp.

References setCborBody().

◆ setContentEncoding()

void Cutelyst::Response::setContentEncoding ( const QByteArray &  encoding)

Short for headers().setContentEncoding(encoding);

See also
Headers::setContentEncoding()
contentEncoding()

Definition at line 161 of file response.cpp.

◆ setContentLength()

void Response::setContentLength ( qint64  length)

Short for headers().setContentLength(length);

See also
Headers::setContentLength()
contentLength()

Definition at line 178 of file response.cpp.

◆ setContentType()

void Cutelyst::Response::setContentType ( const QByteArray &  type)
inline

◆ setCookie()

void Response::setCookie ( const QNetworkCookie &  cookie)

Defines a QNetworkCookie to be sent to the user-agent, if a previous cookie->name() was set it will be replaced.

Definition at line 213 of file response.cpp.

References cookie().

◆ setCookies()

void Response::setCookies ( const QList< QNetworkCookie > &  cookies)

Defines a list of QNetworkCookie to be sent to the user-agent, all previous matches to cookie->name() will be preserved.

Definition at line 219 of file response.cpp.

References cookie(), and cookies().

◆ setHeader()

void Cutelyst::Response::setHeader ( const QByteArray &  key,
const QByteArray &  value 
)

◆ setJsonArrayBody()

void Response::setJsonArrayBody ( const QJsonArray &  array)

Sets a QJsonArray array on a QJsonDocument as the response body, using toJson(QJsonDocument::Compact) output and setting content-type to application/json.

Definition at line 150 of file response.cpp.

References setJsonBody().

◆ setJsonBody() [1/2]

void Response::setJsonBody ( const QByteArray &  json)

Sets a JSON string as the response body, this method is provided for convenience as it sets the content-type to application/json.

Definition at line 138 of file response.cpp.

◆ setJsonBody() [2/2]

void Cutelyst::Response::setJsonBody ( QStringView  json)
inline

Sets a JSON string as the response body, this method is provided for convenience as it sets the content-type to application/json.

Definition at line 440 of file response.h.

References setJsonBody().

Referenced by setJsonArrayBody(), setJsonBody(), and setJsonObjectBody().

◆ setJsonObjectBody()

void Response::setJsonObjectBody ( const QJsonObject &  obj)

Sets a QJsonObject obj on a QJsonDocument as the response body, using toJson(QJsonDocument::Compact) output and setting content-type to application/json.

Definition at line 145 of file response.cpp.

References setJsonBody().

◆ setStatus()

void Response::setStatus ( quint16  status)
noexcept

◆ size()

qint64 Cutelyst::Response::size ( ) const
overridenoexcept

Reimplemented from QIODevice::readData().

Referenced by Cutelyst::EngineRequest::finalizeHeaders().

◆ status()

quint16 Response::status ( ) const
noexcept

The current response code status.

Definition at line 67 of file response.cpp.

Referenced by Cutelyst::RenderView::doExecute(), Cutelyst::EngineRequest::finalizeHeaders(), and redirect().

◆ webSocketBinaryMessage()

bool Cutelyst::Response::webSocketBinaryMessage ( const QByteArray &  message)

Sends a WebSocket binary message.

◆ webSocketClose()

bool Cutelyst::Response::webSocketClose ( quint16  code = Response::CloseCodeNormal,
const QString &  reason = {} 
)

Sends a WebSocket close frame, with both optional close code and a string reason.

Note
This method does not emit Request::webSocketClosed() signal. If you need to track when the connection was closed, the proper way is to rely on Context::destroyed() signal.

◆ webSocketHandshake()

bool Cutelyst::Response::webSocketHandshake ( const QByteArray &  key = {},
const QByteArray &  origin = {},
const QByteArray &  protocol = {} 
)

Sends the websocket handshake, if no parameters are defined it will use header data. Returns true in case of success, false otherwise, which can be due missing support on the engine or missing the appropriate headers.

Note
Most WebSockets client doesn't handle when a call to a WebSocket endpoint ends on an HTTP authentication failure or other HTTP status that is not the update. Due that it's best to always do the proper websocket handshake and then
See also
webSocketClose() the connection, with some meaning reason.

◆ webSocketPing()

bool Cutelyst::Response::webSocketPing ( const QByteArray &  payload = {})

Sends a WebSocket ping with an optional payload limited to 125 bytes, which will be truncated if larger.

Note
Some front-end servers will close the connection if no activity is seem, NGINX closes in 60 seconds by default, in order to avoid that, sending a ping is the best to way to keep the connection alive and to know that your client is still there.

◆ webSocketTextMessage()

bool Cutelyst::Response::webSocketTextMessage ( const QString &  message)

Sends a WebSocket text message.

◆ writeData()

qint64 Response::writeData ( const char *  data,
qint64  len 
)
overrideprotectedvirtual

Writes data to the response body, this will flush all response headers first and will enter in chunked mode if Transfer-Encoding header is set to chunked or if no content length is set and status is not 1xx or 204 (NoContent) or 304 (NotModified)

Definition at line 33 of file response.cpp.

Friends And Related Symbol Documentation

◆ Application

friend class Application
friend

Definition at line 423 of file response.h.

◆ Context

friend class Context
friend

Definition at line 426 of file response.h.

◆ ContextPrivate

friend class ContextPrivate
friend

Definition at line 427 of file response.h.

◆ Engine

friend class Engine
friend

Definition at line 424 of file response.h.

◆ EngineConnection

friend class EngineConnection
friend

Definition at line 425 of file response.h.