Provide API for adding pseudo headers to HPACKHeaders
- Dominant language
- Swift
- Stars
- 503
- Forks
- 103
- Avg merge
- 18h 8m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 4
Description
Pseudo headers must appear at the beginning of a block of headers. However, there's no API in `HPACKHeaders` to allow for this; it requires up-front knowledge that when constructed the pseudo headers are added first.
When a block of headers is provided (by a user, for example) which must then have pseudo headers added to it, a new block must be created, the pseudo headers added and then all of the headers from the provided block to be copied across. This incurs a potentially large unnecessary extra allocation.
`HPACKHeaders` is currently backed by an array, changing this to a `CircularBuffer` would allow cheap insertion to the front of the block via an `add(pseudoHeader:value:)` API.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at HPACKHeaders and inspect its current array-backed storage and header insertion behavior. Confirm that the proposed API preserves pseudo-header-first ordering without rebuilding the supplied block, then validate the behavior with the project's existing HTTP/2 header tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100