Request streaming for Apache HttpClient

- Added org.springframework.http.StreamingHttpOutputMessage, which
  allows for a settable request body (as opposed to an output stream).

- Added http.client.HttpComponentsStreamingClientHttpRequest, which
  implements the above mentioned interface, mapping setBody() to a
  setEntity() call on the Apache HttpClient HttpEntityEnclosingRequest.

- Added a 'bufferRequestBody' property to the
  HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory. When this property is set to
  false (default is true), we return a
  HttpComponentsStreamingClientHttpRequest instead of a (request
  buffering) HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest.

Issue: SPR-10728

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/StreamingHttpOutputMessage.java

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.http;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+/**
+ * Represents a HTTP output message that allows for setting a streaming body.
+ *
+ * @author Arjen Poutsma
+ * @since 4.0
+ */
+public interface StreamingHttpOutputMessage extends HttpOutputMessage {
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets the streaming body for this message.
+	 *
+	 * @param body the streaming body
+	 */
+	void setBody(Body body);
+
+	/**
+	 * Defines the contract for bodies that can be written directly to a
+	 * {@link OuputStream}. It is useful with HTTP client libraries that provide indirect
+	 * access to an {@link OutputStream} via a callback mechanism.
+	 */
+	public interface Body {
+
+		/**
+		 * Writes this body to the given {@link OuputStream}.
+		 *
+		 * @param outputStream the output stream to write to
+		 * @throws IOException in case of errors
+		 */
+		void writeTo(OutputStream outputStream) throws IOException;
+
+	}
+
+}

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/client/AbstractClientHttpRequest.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractClientHttpRequest implements ClientHttpRequest {
 
 	@Override
 	public final OutputStream getBody() throws IOException {
-		checkExecuted();
+		assertNotExecuted();
 		return getBodyInternal(this.headers);
 	}
 
@@ -55,13 +55,18 @@ public abstract class AbstractClientHttpRequest implements ClientHttpRequest {
 
 	@Override
 	public final ClientHttpResponse execute() throws IOException {
-		checkExecuted();
+		assertNotExecuted();
 		ClientHttpResponse result = executeInternal(this.headers);
 		this.executed = true;
 		return result;
 	}
 
-	private void checkExecuted() {
+	/**
+	 * Asserts that this request has not been {@linkplain #execute() executed} yet.
+	 *
+	 * @throws IllegalStateException if this request has been executed
+	 */
+	protected void assertNotExecuted() {
 		Assert.state(!this.executed, "ClientHttpRequest already executed");
 	}
 

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/client/HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -73,22 +73,35 @@ final class HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest extends AbstractBufferingClientHttpR
 
 	@Override
 	protected ClientHttpResponse executeInternal(HttpHeaders headers, byte[] bufferedOutput) throws IOException {
+		addHeaders(this.httpRequest, headers);
+
+		if (this.httpRequest instanceof HttpEntityEnclosingRequest) {
+			HttpEntityEnclosingRequest entityEnclosingRequest =
+					(HttpEntityEnclosingRequest) this.httpRequest;
+			HttpEntity requestEntity = new ByteArrayEntity(bufferedOutput);
+			entityEnclosingRequest.setEntity(requestEntity);
+		}
+		HttpResponse httpResponse =
+				this.httpClient.execute(this.httpRequest, this.httpContext);
+		return new HttpComponentsClientHttpResponse(httpResponse);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Adds the given headers to the given HTTP request.
+	 *
+	 * @param httpRequest the request to add the headers to
+	 * @param headers the headers to add
+	 */
+	static void addHeaders(HttpUriRequest httpRequest, HttpHeaders headers) {
 		for (Map.Entry<String, List<String>> entry : headers.entrySet()) {
 			String headerName = entry.getKey();
 			if (!headerName.equalsIgnoreCase(HTTP.CONTENT_LEN) &&
 					!headerName.equalsIgnoreCase(HTTP.TRANSFER_ENCODING)) {
 				for (String headerValue : entry.getValue()) {
-					this.httpRequest.addHeader(headerName, headerValue);
+					httpRequest.addHeader(headerName, headerValue);
 				}
 			}
 		}
-		if (this.httpRequest instanceof HttpEntityEnclosingRequest) {
-			HttpEntityEnclosingRequest entityEnclosingRequest = (HttpEntityEnclosingRequest) this.httpRequest;
-			HttpEntity requestEntity = new ByteArrayEntity(bufferedOutput);
-			entityEnclosingRequest.setEntity(requestEntity);
-		}
-		HttpResponse httpResponse = this.httpClient.execute(this.httpRequest, this.httpContext);
-		return new HttpComponentsClientHttpResponse(httpResponse);
 	}
 
 }

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/client/HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ public class HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory implements ClientHttpRequest
 
 	private HttpClient httpClient;
 
+	private boolean bufferRequestBody = true;
 
 	/**
 	 * Create a new instance of the HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory with a default
@@ -128,11 +129,28 @@ public class HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory implements ClientHttpRequest
 		getHttpClient().getParams().setIntParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.SO_TIMEOUT, timeout);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Indicates whether this request factory should buffer the request body internally.
+	 *
+	 * <p>Default is {@code true}. When sending large amounts of data via POST or PUT, it is
+	 * recommended to change this property to {@code false}, so as not to run out of memory.
+	 */
+	public void setBufferRequestBody(boolean bufferRequestBody) {
+		this.bufferRequestBody = bufferRequestBody;
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public ClientHttpRequest createRequest(URI uri, HttpMethod httpMethod) throws IOException {
 		HttpUriRequest httpRequest = createHttpUriRequest(httpMethod, uri);
 		postProcessHttpRequest(httpRequest);
-		return new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest(getHttpClient(), httpRequest, createHttpContext(httpMethod, uri));
+		if (bufferRequestBody) {
+			return new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest(getHttpClient(), httpRequest,
+					createHttpContext(httpMethod, uri));
+		}
+		else {
+			return new HttpComponentsStreamingClientHttpRequest(getHttpClient(),
+					httpRequest, createHttpContext(httpMethod, uri));
+		}
 	}
 
 	/**

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/client/HttpComponentsStreamingClientHttpRequest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.http.client;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.URI;
+
+import org.apache.http.Header;
+import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
+import org.apache.http.HttpEntityEnclosingRequest;
+import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
+import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;
+import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
+
+import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.http.StreamingHttpOutputMessage;
+
+/**
+ * {@link ClientHttpRequest} implementation that uses Apache HttpComponents HttpClient to
+ * execute requests.
+ *
+ * <p>Created via the {@link org.springframework.http.client.HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory}.
+ *
+ * @author Arjen Poutsma
+ * @see org.springframework.http.client.HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory#createRequest(java.net.URI,
+ *      org.springframework.http.HttpMethod)
+ * @since 4.0
+ */
+final class HttpComponentsStreamingClientHttpRequest extends AbstractClientHttpRequest
+		implements StreamingHttpOutputMessage {
+
+	private final HttpClient httpClient;
+
+	private final HttpUriRequest httpRequest;
+
+	private final HttpContext httpContext;
+
+	private Body body;
+
+	public HttpComponentsStreamingClientHttpRequest(HttpClient httpClient,
+			HttpUriRequest httpRequest, HttpContext httpContext) {
+		this.httpClient = httpClient;
+		this.httpRequest = httpRequest;
+		this.httpContext = httpContext;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public HttpMethod getMethod() {
+		return HttpMethod.valueOf(this.httpRequest.getMethod());
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public URI getURI() {
+		return this.httpRequest.getURI();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void setBody(Body body) {
+		assertNotExecuted();
+		this.body = body;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected OutputStream getBodyInternal(HttpHeaders headers) throws IOException {
+		throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+				"getBody not supported when bufferRequestBody is false");
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected ClientHttpResponse executeInternal(HttpHeaders headers) throws IOException {
+		HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest.addHeaders(this.httpRequest, headers);
+
+		if (this.httpRequest instanceof HttpEntityEnclosingRequest && body != null) {
+			HttpEntityEnclosingRequest entityEnclosingRequest =
+					(HttpEntityEnclosingRequest) this.httpRequest;
+
+			HttpEntity requestEntity = new StreamingHttpEntity(getHeaders(), body);
+			entityEnclosingRequest.setEntity(requestEntity);
+		}
+		HttpResponse httpResponse =
+				this.httpClient.execute(this.httpRequest, this.httpContext);
+		return new HttpComponentsClientHttpResponse(httpResponse);
+	}
+
+	private static class StreamingHttpEntity implements HttpEntity {
+
+		private final HttpHeaders headers;
+
+		private final StreamingHttpOutputMessage.Body body;
+
+		private StreamingHttpEntity(HttpHeaders headers,
+				StreamingHttpOutputMessage.Body body) {
+			this.headers = headers;
+			this.body = body;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public boolean isRepeatable() {
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public boolean isChunked() {
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public long getContentLength() {
+			return headers.getContentLength();
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public Header getContentType() {
+			MediaType contentType = headers.getContentType();
+			return contentType != null ?
+					new BasicHeader("Content-Type", contentType.toString()) : null;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public Header getContentEncoding() {
+			String contentEncoding = headers.getFirst("Content-Encoding");
+			return contentEncoding != null ?
+					new BasicHeader("Content-Encoding", contentEncoding) : null;
+
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public InputStream getContent() throws IOException, IllegalStateException {
+			throw new IllegalStateException();
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public void writeTo(OutputStream outputStream) throws IOException {
+			body.writeTo(outputStream);
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public boolean isStreaming() {
+			return true;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public void consumeContent() throws IOException {
+			throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+		}
+	}
+
+}

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/AbstractHttpMessageConverter.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.springframework.http.converter;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
@@ -25,10 +26,12 @@ import java.util.List;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
+import org.springframework.http.Cookies;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpInputMessage;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpOutputMessage;
 import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.http.StreamingHttpOutputMessage;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 
 /**
@@ -163,10 +166,10 @@ public abstract class AbstractHttpMessageConverter<T> implements HttpMessageConv
 	 * on the output message. It then calls {@link #writeInternal}.
 	 */
 	@Override
-	public final void write(T t, MediaType contentType, HttpOutputMessage outputMessage)
+	public final void write(final T t, MediaType contentType, HttpOutputMessage outputMessage)
 			throws IOException, HttpMessageNotWritableException {
 
-		HttpHeaders headers = outputMessage.getHeaders();
+		final HttpHeaders headers = outputMessage.getHeaders();
 		if (headers.getContentType() == null) {
 			if (contentType == null || contentType.isWildcardType() || contentType.isWildcardSubtype()) {
 				contentType = getDefaultContentType(t);
@@ -181,8 +184,36 @@ public abstract class AbstractHttpMessageConverter<T> implements HttpMessageConv
 				headers.setContentLength(contentLength);
 			}
 		}
-		writeInternal(t, outputMessage);
-		outputMessage.getBody().flush();
+		if (outputMessage instanceof StreamingHttpOutputMessage) {
+			StreamingHttpOutputMessage streamingOutputMessage =
+					(StreamingHttpOutputMessage) outputMessage;
+
+			streamingOutputMessage.setBody(new StreamingHttpOutputMessage.Body() {
+				@Override
+				public void writeTo(final OutputStream outputStream) throws IOException {
+					writeInternal(t, new HttpOutputMessage() {
+						@Override
+						public OutputStream getBody() throws IOException {
+							return outputStream;
+						}
+
+						@Override
+						public HttpHeaders getHeaders() {
+							return headers;
+						}
+
+						@Override
+						public Cookies getCookies() {
+							return null;
+						}
+					});
+				}
+			});
+		}
+		else {
+			writeInternal(t, outputMessage);
+			outputMessage.getBody().flush();
+		}
 	}
 
 	/**