remove anti-pattern dispatcher hooks

[ronag]

onBodySent on onRequestSent are footguns that easily cause bugs
when implementing logic will send multiple requests, e.g. redirect
and retry.

To achieve similar functionality wrap body into a stream and listen
to 'data' and 'end' events.

Refs: #2722

[metcoder95]

The rationale seems fair to me. I had a little bit of an issue understanding its specific use case. However, I think we should provide the same lifecycle event in some other way almost native to undici.

Wrapping the body into a stream and always listening for its end event can be a way to go to trigger the event, we just need to be clear on its intentions.

For the PR, it seems lint is not happy and we need to work on some tests 😅
Shall we point to next?

[ronag]

Shall we point to next?

Sorry, what do you mean?

[metcoder95]

Sorry, what do you mean?

Point the PR to next branch

[mcollina]

To achieve similar functionality wrap body into a stream and listen
to 'data' and 'end' events.

This is not the same. The reason those were added was essentially to avoid wrapping the body with a stream, because it adds overhead.

[ronag]

To achieve similar functionality wrap body into a stream and listen
to 'data' and 'end' events.

This is not the same. The reason those were added was essentially to avoid wrapping the body with a stream, because it adds overhead.

It is the same. But slower. However, they cause more harm than good as it is currently. What happens e.g. during a retry or redirect? When the same body is sent twice, possibly interleaved? The API is badly broken.

[mcollina]

Can you add a atest showing how to achieve the same?

[ronag]

A test? Testing what? I can add an example in the docs if that's what you are looking for.

[mcollina]

That would be ok.

[ronag]

No idea how/where to put this. But something like this would be the same thing:

import { Readable } from 'node:stream' 
import undici from 'undici'

function request(url, opts, onBodySent, onRequestSent) {
  let body = !opts?.body || typeof opts.body?.pipe === 'function' 
    ? opts.body 
    : Readable.from([opts.body])
  body
    .on('data', onBodySent)
    .on('end', onRequestSent) 
    .pause()
  return undici.request(url, { ...opts, body, })
}

[mcollina]

Lgtm