Elixir Streams to process large HTTP responses on the fly

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:48:21 +0000

Part 1 - this article
Part 2 - Elixir Stream and large HTTP responses: processing text

This is the first of a two-part article where we see a handy way of handling async HTTP responses.\

In this first part we see how make an Elixir Stream out of a large HTTP response.
In the second part we will extend the implementation so we can download a large text file, processing lines on the fly.

First and foremost … WHY?

Why should we handle HTTP responses with Streams, when we can just simply use something like HTTPoison.get to receive a response with the data we need?

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Elixir Streams to process large HTTP responses on the fly

First and foremost … WHY?