Can not access body of ClientResponse about kitura-net

[michalkalinowski-]

Replying to myself:

I did some more code reading and I've found a solution higher up the stack in Kitura repo. One can send the request and handle response using BodyParser.parse (feels a bit hacky though)

router.get("/clientRequestTest") {
  request, response, next in

  _ = Http.request("https://httpbin.org/get") {
    res in

    // unwrap the optional res
    guard let clientResponse = res else {
      Log.error("Log some error")
      return
    }

    // parse response with Kitura's BodyParser
    if let body = BodyParser.parse(clientResponse, contentType: clientResponse.headers["Content-Type"]) {
      if case .Json(let json) = body {
        Log.info("received JSON!: \(json)")
        // handle json here 
        // and send something back
        response.send(json: json)
      }
    }
  }.end()

  response.statusCode = .OK
  next()
}

[shmuelk]

I agree completely that we need a better way or perhaps a higher level way to handle communicating outward to another RESTful endpoint from within a Kitura based endpoint.

We will look into this and see what we can do (unless someone else provides a reasonable API via a PR....)

[shmuelk]

Please add any comments in our question poll in Kitura/Kitura#436