Avoid the memory blockage during large xml request

Guys,

        When i am playing with handling the xml request through net::http discover the problem of memory blockage and just worried about how to handle that. This problem happen b'coze i have bulk of xml data in the request. So, i form the one of the solution by using the block of net http.

When we using the block of net::http. It yields each fragment of the entity body in turn as a string as it are read from the socket.

Lets we consider 2 scenario:

require 'rubygems'

require 'net/https'

require 'uri'

uri = URI.parse("http://google.com")

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)

case 1:
response = http.post('http://google.com', 'query=language')

case 2:

# using block

   File.open('test.txt',  'w') { |f|

      http.post('http://google.com', 'query=language') do |str|

          f.write str

       end

   }

In case 1 it loads the entire response in memory. While in case 2 it read each fragment and write into file. so when we use block it's avoid memory blockage.

For more information just follow

http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html

Hope above post will help you to avoid memory blockage and increase performance.