actix/actix-web v0.7.0

Actix web 0.7.0

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Changes

Added

• Add fs::StaticFileConfig to provide means of customizing static
  file services. It allows to map mime to Content-Disposition,
  specify whether to use ETag and Last-Modified and allowed methods.

• Add .has_prefixed_resource() method to router::ResourceInfo
  for route matching with prefix awareness

• Add HttpMessage::readlines() for reading line by line.

• Add ClientRequestBuilder::form() for sending application/x-www-form-urlencoded requests.

• Add method to configure custom error handler to Form extractor.

• Add methods to HttpResponse to retrieve, add, and delete cookies

• Add .set_content_type() and .set_content_disposition() methods
  to fs::NamedFile to allow overriding the values inferred by default

• Add fs::file_extension_to_mime() helper function to get the MIME
  type for a file extension

• Add .content_disposition() method to parse Content-Disposition of
  multipart fields

• Re-export actix::prelude::* as actix_web::actix module.

• HttpRequest::url_for_static() for a named route with no variables segments

• Propagation of the application's default resource to scopes that haven't set a default resource.

Changed

• Min rustc version is 1.26

• Use tokio instead of tokio-core

• CookieSessionBackend sets percent encoded cookies for outgoing HTTP messages.

• Became possible to use enums with query extractor.
  Issue #371.
  Example

• HttpResponse::into_builder() now moves cookies into the builder
  instead of dropping them

• For safety and performance reasons Handler::handle() uses &self instead of &mut self

• Handler::handle() uses &HttpRequest instead of HttpRequest

• Added header User-Agent: Actix-web/<current_version> to default headers when building a request

• port Extensions type from http create, we don't need Send + Sync

• HttpRequest::query() returns Ref<HashMap<String, String>>

• HttpRequest::cookies() returns Ref<Vec<Cookie<'static>>>

• StaticFiles::new() returns Result<StaticFiles<S>, Error> instead of StaticFiles<S>

• StaticFiles uses the default handler if the file does not exist

Removed

• Remove Route::with2() and Route::with3() use tuple of extractors instead.

• Remove HttpMessage::range()