When implementing Controllers using lambdas, handle "Accepted-Encoding" and "Encoded-Content" headers transparently to decide if lambda response should be binary.

[dniel]

Feature description

When using the API-Gateway to integrate with a AWS Lambda its easy to reach the 6mb limit of lambda payload response if returning plain text response. A http client should be able to send Accepted-Encoding to gzip and expect the response to be gzipped and the Encoded-Content header in the result to be set to gzip.

Implementing a AWS Lambda using @Controller and annotations such as @Get should handle Accepted-Encoding header to decide it should gzip the response and set isBase64Encoded=true in response transparently for the user just like when handling request when running as a netty container.

Example

@Controller
class RestApiController(){

  @Get("/something")
    fun getSomething(): HttpResponse{
       val giganticResponse = ... // something 10 mb from the database
      
       // should be gzipped to avoid aws limit to 6mb payload response.
       // especially if incoming header from API-Gateway Accept-Content has "gzip"
       return HttpResponse.ok(giganticResponse)
    }
}

[sdelamo]

@timyates can you look into this?

@dniel I think if your controller returned HttpResponse.contentType("application/zip").body(bytes) you will get what you are looking for.

[dniel]

thanx! I will try that.