| 1 | Feature Requests
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| 2 | ================
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| 4 | While the maintainers of restify work hard to provide the best possible
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| 5 | framwork for building REST services, there is more work to go around than there
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| 6 | are hours in the day. This document contains a set of features that have been
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| 7 | requested by the community. If you are looking to contribute, the items on
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| 8 | this list -- along with the open bugs on the issues tab -- are a great place to
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| 9 | start!
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| 10 |
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| 11 | > The features here are not sorted in any particular order. Each feature links
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| 12 | > to the original GitHub issue requesting it. While feature requests are
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| 13 | > generally closed and moved to this document, discussion around the feature
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| 14 | > still takes place on the original issue. Even if there has been a discussion
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| 15 | > on the issue already, it is still worth declaring your intent to open a PR
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| 16 | > before investing time in writing code.
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| 17 |
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| 18 | ## Code
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| 19 |
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| 20 | * [Support `server.use(route, handler)` and `server.all`][289]
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| 21 | * [Support asynchronous callbacks for throttle][381]
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| 22 | * [Streaming multipart parser without needing temporary files][474]
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| 23 | * [Default client to http protocol][790]
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| 24 | * [Exponential backoff and retry][633]
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| 25 | * [Arbitrary HTTP methods][576]
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| 26 | * [Detect route conflicts][909]
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| 27 | * [Improve upon `next.ifError`][875]
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| 28 | * [Benchmark suite][860]
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| 29 | * [HTTP/2 support][853]
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| 30 | * [Improve performance of route lookup][850]
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| 31 | * [Support HTTP_PROXY][813]
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| 32 | * [IE9 support for `bodyParser`][801]
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| 33 | * [Multipart Client Support][921]
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| 34 | * [Remove `next(err)`][1019]
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| 35 | * [Support `RegExp` for `route.render`][632]
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| 36 | * [Run internal handlers on `NotFound`][708]
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| 37 | * [Support multiple apps on the same port][1035]
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| 38 | * [Multiple versions for routes][1134]
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| 39 | * [sysdig support][1323]
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| 40 | * [Migrate routing DSL to `path-to-regexp`][1292]
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| 41 | * [JQuery Style Query Expansion][895]
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| 42 | * [Support Proxy Protocol][1046]
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| 43 |
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| 44 | ## Documentation
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| 45 |
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| 46 | * [Socket.io support][717]
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| 47 | * [`uncaughtException` handler when opting into domains][829]
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| 48 | * [Forward `req_id`][1101]
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| 49 | * [Document `bodyParser` headers][989]
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| 50 | * [Improve signRequest documentation][737]
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| 51 | * [Better documentation for `client.close`][859]
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| 52 | * [Document all client options][1326]
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| 53 | * [Client tunneling vs. proxying][1327]
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| 54 | * [Explain why Restify is great!][927]
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| 55 | * [`BasicAuth` examples][1099]
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| 56 | * [Document `next` behaviour][1068]
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| 57 | * [Remove defaultResponseHeaders][1040]
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| 58 | * [Properly document req.accepts][957]
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| 59 | * [Plugin custom errors][948]
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| 60 | * [`findByPath` on `Router`][1136]
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| 61 | * [Multiple route handlers][1183]
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| 62 | * [Update new `HttpError` codes][1206]
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| 63 | * [v4 res.headers][1286]
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| 64 | * [Document RegExp DSL for routing][1065]
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| 66 | [289]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/289
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| 67 | [381]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/381
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| 68 | [474]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/474
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| 69 | [575]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/575
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| 70 | [790]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/790
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| 71 | [633]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/663
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| 72 | [717]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/717#issuecomment-296531086
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| 73 | [576]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/576
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| 74 | [576]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/576
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| 75 | [909]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/909
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| 76 | [875]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/875
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| 77 | [860]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/860
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| 78 | [853]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/853
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| 79 | [850]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/850
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| 80 | [829]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/829
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| 81 | [813]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/813
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| 82 | [801]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/801
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| 83 | [921]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/921
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| 84 | [1101]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1101
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| 85 | [1019]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1019
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| 86 | [989]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/989
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| 87 | [632]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/632
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| 88 | [708]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/708
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| 89 | [737]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/737
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| 90 | [859]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/859
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| 91 | [1326]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1326
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| 92 | [1327]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1327
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| 93 | [927]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/927
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| 94 | [1099]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1099
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| 95 | [1068]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1068
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| 96 | [1040]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1040
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| 97 | [1035]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1035
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| 98 | [957]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/957
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| 99 | [948]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/948
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| 100 | [1134]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1134
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| 101 | [1136]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1136
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| 102 | [1183]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1183
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| 103 | [1206]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1206
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| 104 | [1286]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1286
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| 105 | [1323]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1323
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| 106 | [1292]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/1292
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| 107 | [1065]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/pull/1065
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| 108 | [895]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues/895
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| 109 | [1046]: https://github.com/restify/node-restify/pull/1046
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