feat(server): allow !Send Servers

Until this commit, servers have required that `Service` and their
`Future` to be `Send`, since the server needs to spawn some internal
tasks to an executor, and by default, that is `tokio::spawn`, which
could be spawning to a threadpool. This was true even if the user were
certain there was no threadpool involved, and was instead using a
different single-threaded runtime, like
`tokio::runtime::current_thread`.

This changes makes all the server pieces generic over an `E`, which is
essentially `Executor<PrivateTypes<Server::Future>>`. There's a new set
of internal traits, `H2Exec` and `NewSvcExec`, which allow for the type
signature to only show the generics that the user is providing. The
traits cannot be implemented explicitly, but there are blanket
implementations for `E: Executor<SpecificType>`. If the user provides
their own executor, it simply needs to have a generic `impl<F>
Executor<F> for MyExec`. That impl can have bounds deciding whether to
require `F: Send`. If the executor does require `Send`, and the
`Service` futures are `!Send`, there will be compiler errors.

To prevent a breaking change, all the types that gained the `E` generic
have a default type set, which is the original `tokio::spawn` executor.
This commit is contained in:
Sean McArthur
2018-10-16 12:42:24 -07:00
parent 00c96de0b9
commit ced949cb6b
11 changed files with 426 additions and 133 deletions

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@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ parses it with serde and outputs the result.
* [`send_file`](send_file.rs) - A server that sends back content of files using tokio_fs to read the files asynchronously.
* [`single_threaded`](single_threaded.rs) - A server only running on 1 thread, so it can make use of `!Send` app state (like an `Rc` counter).
* [`state`](state.rs) - A webserver showing basic state sharing among requests. A counter is shared, incremented for every request, and every response is sent the last count.
* [`upgrades`](upgrades.rs) - A server and client demonstrating how to do HTTP upgrades (such as WebSockets or `CONNECT` tunneling).