Suppport generating HTTP requests without sending about bloodhound

[bitemyapp]

So, there's a BulkOperation data type. That contains all the information required to generate a request.

From there, to get a ByteString you can use collapseStream to turn a list of BulkOperations into a ByteString.

https://github.com/bitemyapp/bloodhound/blob/master/Database/Bloodhound/Client.hs#L175-L179

All that happens after that is bulk POSTs the generated: https://github.com/bitemyapp/bloodhound/blob/master/Database/Bloodhound/Client.hs#L173

Do you want collapseStream to be exported? If so, I'd probably rename it to something more explicitly about bulk operations first.

[chrismwendt]

collapseStream is pretty close to what I'm looking for, because I would just need to construct my own data structure (maybe Network.HTTP.Base.Request?) before sending it out. Even better would be a function which returns the data structure itself, so that the building of HTTP requests can be done separately from the sending. This isn't a critical feature, but I think it fits nicely into the concept of separating pure and impure code.

[bitemyapp]

This isn't a critical feature, but I think it fits nicely into the concept of separating pure and impure code.

Yeah, that's fine.

Network.HTTP.Base.Request

That's specific to a library I'm not using. I'm not adding that as a dependency.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/http-types-0.8.5/docs/Network-HTTP-Types.html

There are neutral component types for things like methods, but not the requests themselves for various reasons.

I'll expose collapseStream with a more specific name so you can turn the bulk operations into the bytestring blob that can be posted, there's really not much more information than that - method POST and the server you're POST'ing to.

[bitemyapp]

Fixed by b911e9a

They're exported from the library as encodeBulkOperations and encodeBulkOperation. I added documentation as well.

I can't guarantee I'll push 0.4.0.0 to Hackage soon, but you can at least clone it and install for your builds immediately.

[chrismwendt]

Awesome, thanks!