astralis/src/Components/Compression.vala

namespace Astralis {

    public class Compression : Object, PipelineComponent {

        public async HttpResult process_request (HttpContext http_context, PipelineContext pipeline_context) throws Error {
            var result  = yield pipeline_context.next();
            var accept_encoding = http_context.request.headers.get_any_or_default("Accept-Encoding");
            if(accept_encoding != null && accept_encoding.contains("gzip")) {
                return new CompressionResult (result, ZlibCompressorFormat.GZIP)
                    .set_header("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
            }
            return result;
        }

        private class CompressionResult : HttpResult {
            private HttpResult inner_result;
            private ZlibCompressorFormat format;

            public CompressionResult(HttpResult result, ZlibCompressorFormat format) {
                base(result.status, result.content_length);
                replace_headers(result.headers);

                this.inner_result = result;
                this.format = format;
            }

            public async override void send_body (AsyncOutput output) throws Error {
                var converter = new ZlibCompressor(format);
                var converter_output = new ConverterAsyncOutput(output, converter);
                yield inner_result.send_body(converter_output);
            }
            
        }

    }

}