cowboy/src/cowboy_sub_protocol.erl

%% Copyright (c) 2013, James Fish <james@fishcakez.com>
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%% @doc Behaviour for sub protocols.
%%
%% Only one function needs to be implemented, <em>upgrade/4</em>.
%% It receives the Req, the environment, the handler that the request has been
%% routed to and the handler's options. It acts exactly the same as a
%% middleware, so returns the same values a middleware's execute/2.
%%
%% Once the sub protocol has processed the request it should add the result
%% to the environment. This is done by adding the tuple {result, Value} to the
%% environment list. To continue handling requests on the current connection the
%% Value should be the atom ok. Any other value will prevent the processing of
%% subsequent requests.
%%
%% <em>upgrade/4</em> will be called when a handler's init/3 returns
%% {upgrade, protocol, Module}, where Module is the module of the sub protocol.
-module(cowboy_sub_protocol).

-callback upgrade(Req, Env, module(), any())
	-> {ok, Req, Env}
	| {suspend, module(), atom(), [any()]}
	| {halt, Req}
	| {error, cowboy:http_status(), Req}
	when Req::cowboy_req:req(), Env::cowboy_middleware:env().