fix(lib): Support large body uploads with repeated read callbacks

When uploading larger amounts of data, cURL will call the read
callback incrementally multiple times to receive all the expected
data.

Previously if the size of the data to upload exceeded the size of the
initial buffer provided by cURL, the write (and thus the request)
would fail.

This changes the logic to write the data in chunks of a size that are
acceptable to cURL.

src/lib.rs

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ extern crate curl;
 
 pub use curl::init;
 
-use curl::easy::{Auth, Easy, Form, List, ReadError};
+use curl::easy::{Auth, Easy, Form, List, Transfer, ReadError, WriteError};
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::io::Write;
 use std::path::Path;
@@ -379,18 +379,10 @@ impl <'a> Request<'a> {
 
             // Write the payload if it exists:
             match self.body {
-                Body::Bytes { data, .. } => transfer.read_function(move |mut into| {
+                Body::Bytes { data, .. } => chunked_read_function(&mut transfer, data)?,
-                    into.write_all(data)
-                        .map(|_| data.len())
-                        .map_err(|_| ReadError::Abort)
-                })?,
 
                 #[cfg(feature = "json")]
-                Body::Json(json) => transfer.read_function(move |mut into| {
+                Body::Json(ref json) => chunked_read_function(&mut transfer, json)?,
-                    into.write_all(&json)
-                        .map(|_| json.len())
-                        .map_err(|_| ReadError::Abort)
-                })?,
 
                 // Do nothing if there is no body or if the body is a
                 // form.
@@ -426,7 +418,7 @@ impl <'a> Request<'a> {
                 let len = data.len();
                 body.write_all(data)
                     .map(|_| len)
-                    .map_err(|err| panic!("{:?}", err))
+                    .map_err(|_| WriteError::Pause)
             })?;
 
             transfer.perform()?;
@@ -440,6 +432,26 @@ impl <'a> Request<'a> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Provide a data chunk potentially larger than cURL's initial write
+/// buffer to the data reading callback by tracking the offset off
+/// already written data.
+///
+/// As we manually set the expected upload size, cURL will call the
+/// read callback repeatedly until it has all the data it needs.
+fn chunked_read_function<'easy, 'data>(transfer: &mut Transfer<'easy, 'data>,
+                                       data: &'data [u8]) -> Result<(), curl::Error> {
+    let mut data = data;
+
+    transfer.read_function(move |mut into| {
+        let written = into.write(data)
+            .map_err(|_| ReadError::Abort)?;
+
+        data = &data[written..];
+
+        Ok(written)
+    })
+}
+
 impl <T> Response<T> {
     /// Check whether the status code of this HTTP response is a
     /// success (i.e. in the 200-299 range).

src/tests.rs

@@ -114,6 +114,24 @@ fn test_basic_auth() {
     assert!(response.is_success(), "authorized request should succeed");
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn test_large_body() {
+    // By default cURL buffers seem to be 2^16 bytes in size. The test
+    // size is therefore 2^16+1.
+    const BODY_SIZE: usize = 65537;
+
+    let resp = Request::post("http://127.0.0.1:4662/post")
+        .body("application/octet-stream", &[0; BODY_SIZE])
+        .send().expect("sending request")
+        .as_json::<Value>().expect("JSON deserialisation");
+
+    // httpbin returns the uploaded data as a string in the `data`
+    // field.
+    let data = resp.body.get("data").unwrap().as_str().unwrap();
+
+    assert_eq!(BODY_SIZE, data.len(), "uploaded data length should be correct");
+}
+
 // Tests for various other features.
 
 #[test]