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Fabien Potencier 790854989e feature #30413 [HttpClient][Contracts] introduce component and related contracts (nicolas-grekas)
This PR was squashed before being merged into the 4.3-dev branch (closes #30413).

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[HttpClient][Contracts] introduce component and related contracts

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | master
| Bug fix?      | no
| New feature?  | yes
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets | #28628
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | -

This PR introduces new `HttpClient` contracts and
component. It makes no compromises between DX, performance, and design.
Its surface should be very simple to use, while still flexible enough
to cover most advanced use cases thanks to streaming+laziness.

Common existing HTTP clients for PHP rely on PSR-7, which is complex
and orthogonal to the way Symfony is designed. More reasons we need
this in core are the [package principles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_principles): if we want to be able to keep our
BC+deprecation promises, we have to build on more stable and more
abstract dependencies than Symfony itself. And we need an HTTP client
for e.g. Symfony Mailer or #27738.

The existing state-of-the-art puts a quite high bar in terms of features we must
support if we want any adoption. The code in this PR aims at implementing an
even better HTTP client for PHP than existing ones, with more (useful) features
and a better architecture. What a pitch :)

Two full implementations are provided:
 - `NativeHttpClient` is based on the native "http" stream wrapper.
   It's the most portable one but relies on a blocking `fopen()`.
 - `CurlHttpClient` relies on the curl extension. It supports full
   concurrency and HTTP/2, including server push.

Here are some examples that work with both clients.

For simple cases, all the methods on responses are synchronous:

```php
$client = new NativeHttpClient();

$response = $client->get('https://google.com');

$statusCode = $response->getStatusCode();
$headers = $response->getHeaders();
$content = $response->getContent();
```

By default, clients follow redirects. On `3xx`, `4xx` or `5xx`, the `getHeaders()` and `getContent()` methods throw an exception, unless their `$throw` argument is set to `false`.
This is part of the "failsafe" design of the component. Another example of this
failsafe property is that broken dechunk or gzip streams always trigger an exception,
unlike most other HTTP clients who can silently ignore the situations.

An array of options allows adjusting the behavior when sending requests.
They are documented in `HttpClientInterface`.

When several responses are 1) first requested in batch, 2) then accessed
via any of their public methods, requests are done concurrently while
waiting for one.

For more advanced use cases, when streaming is needed:

Streaming the request body is possible via the "body" request option.
Streaming the response content is done via client's `stream()` method:

```php
$client = new CurlHttpClient();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://...');

$output = fopen('output.file', 'w');

foreach ($client->stream($response) as $chunk) {
    fwrite($output, $chunk->getContent());
}
```

The `stream()` method also works with multiple responses:

```php
$client = new CurlHttpClient();
$pool = [];

for ($i = 0; $i < 379; ++$i) {
    $uri = "https://http2.akamai.com/demo/tile-$i.png";
    $pool[] = $client->get($uri);
}

$chunks = $client->stream($pool);

foreach ($chunks as $response => $chunk) {
    // $chunk is a ChunkInterface object
    if ($chunk->isLast()) {
        $content = $response->getContent();
    }
}
```

The `stream()` method accepts a second `$timeout` argument: responses that
are *inactive* for longer than the timeout will emit an empty chunk to signal
it. Providing `0` as timeout allows monitoring responses in a non-blocking way.

Implemented:
 - flexible contracts for HTTP clients
 - `fopen()` + `curl`-based clients with close feature parity
 - gzip compression enabled when possible
 - streaming multiple responses concurrently
 - `base_uri` option for scoped clients
 - progress callback with detailed info and able to cancel the request
 - more flexible options for precise behavior control
 - flexible timeout management allowing e.g. server sent events
 - public key pinning
 - auto proxy configuration via env vars
 - transparent IDN support
 - `HttpClient::create()` factory
 - extensive error handling, e.g. on broken dechunk/gzip streams
 - time stats, primary_ip and other info inspired from `curl_getinfo()`
 - transparent HTTP/2-push support with authority validation
 - `Psr18Client` for integration with libs relying on PSR-18
 - free from memory leaks by avoiding circular references
 - fixed handling of redirects when using the `fopen`-based client
 - DNS cache pre-population with `resolve` option

Help wanted (can be done after merge):
 - `FrameworkBundle` integration: autowireable alias + semantic configuration for default options
 - add `TraceableHttpClient` and integrate with the profiler
 - logger integration
 - add a mock client

More ideas:
 - record/replay like CsaGuzzleBundle
 - use raw sockets instead of the HTTP stream wrapper
 - `cookie_jar` option
 - HTTP/HSTS cache
 - using the symfony CLI binary to test ssl-related options, HTTP/2-push, etc.
 - add "auto" mode to the "buffer" option, based on the content-type? or array of content-types to buffer
 - *etc.*

Commits
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fc83120691 [HttpClient] Add Psr18Client - aka a PSR-18 adapter
8610668c1c [HttpClient] introduce the component
d2d63a28e1 [Contracts] introduce HttpClient contracts
2019-03-07 17:32:39 +01:00
.composer Drop hirak/prestissimo 2016-05-12 07:44:15 -05:00
.github Merge branch '3.4' into 4.2 2019-02-12 21:06:11 +01:00
src/Symfony feature #30413 [HttpClient][Contracts] introduce component and related contracts (nicolas-grekas) 2019-03-07 17:32:39 +01:00
.appveyor.yml Merge branch '4.1' 2018-09-05 14:00:05 +02:00
.editorconfig Update .editorconfig 2018-09-06 16:22:56 +02:00
.gitignore Add appveyor.yml for C.I. on Windows 2015-08-25 23:41:37 +02:00
.php_cs.dist fixed CS 2019-01-16 21:35:37 +01:00
.travis.yml Merge branch '3.4' into 4.2 2019-02-08 14:06:27 +01:00
CHANGELOG-4.0.md Merge branch '3.4' into 4.1 2018-08-01 18:22:14 +02:00
CHANGELOG-4.1.md updated CHANGELOG for 4.1.10 2019-01-06 17:16:07 +01:00
CHANGELOG-4.2.md updated CHANGELOG for 4.2.4 2019-03-03 20:38:00 +01:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Added the Code of Conduct file 2018-10-10 03:13:30 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Mention the community review guide 2016-12-18 22:02:35 +01:00
CONTRIBUTORS.md update CONTRIBUTORS for 3.4.23 2019-03-03 19:52:33 +01:00
LICENSE update year in license files 2019-01-01 14:45:19 +01:00
README.md Merge branch '2.8' into 3.4 2018-05-25 16:50:57 +02:00
UPGRADE-4.0.md Merge branch '3.4' into 4.2 2019-02-23 16:17:42 +01:00
UPGRADE-4.1.md Merge branch '4.0' into 4.1 2018-05-31 12:17:53 +02:00
UPGRADE-4.2.md [Contracts] extract LocaleAwareInterface out of TranslatorInterface 2018-12-05 08:06:11 +00:00
UPGRADE-4.3.md [FrameworkBundle] Fix UrlGenerator::generate to return an empty string instead of null 2019-03-04 21:07:39 +01:00
UPGRADE-5.0.md Drop more usages of Serializable 2019-03-04 09:45:35 +01:00
composer.json [HttpClient] Add Psr18Client - aka a PSR-18 adapter 2019-03-07 17:16:39 +01:00
link appending root of Contracts dir (where composer.json is located) 2018-07-31 21:19:26 +03:00
phpunit Bump phpunit bridge cache id 2019-01-24 22:33:33 +01:00
phpunit.xml.dist Merge branch '4.1' 2018-11-11 20:52:12 +01:00

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