client: touch-up docs, and user doc-links

Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
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Sebastiaan van Stijn
2023-07-15 17:22:06 +02:00
parent 37b908aa62
commit 8d514f4e2e
2 changed files with 61 additions and 54 deletions

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@@ -86,9 +86,6 @@ import (
// [Go stdlib]: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/6244b1946bc2101b01955468f1be502dbadd6807/src/net/http/transport.go#L558-L569
const DummyHost = "api.moby.localhost"
// ErrRedirect is the error returned by checkRedirect when the request is non-GET.
var ErrRedirect = errors.New("unexpected redirect in response")
// Client is the API client that performs all operations
// against a docker server.
type Client struct {
@@ -111,7 +108,7 @@ type Client struct {
// header variables. When set to an empty string, the User-Agent header
// is removed, and no header is sent.
userAgent *string
// custom http headers configured by users.
// custom HTTP headers configured by users.
customHTTPHeaders map[string]string
// manualOverride is set to true when the version was set by users.
manualOverride bool
@@ -126,20 +123,25 @@ type Client struct {
negotiated bool
}
// CheckRedirect specifies the policy for dealing with redirect responses:
// If the request is non-GET return ErrRedirect, otherwise use the last response.
// ErrRedirect is the error returned by checkRedirect when the request is non-GET.
var ErrRedirect = errors.New("unexpected redirect in response")
// CheckRedirect specifies the policy for dealing with redirect responses. It
// can be set on [http.Client.CheckRedirect] to prevent HTTP redirects for
// non-GET requests. It returns an [ErrRedirect] for non-GET request, otherwise
// returns a [http.ErrUseLastResponse], which is special-cased by http.Client
// to use the last response.
//
// Go 1.8 changes behavior for HTTP redirects (specifically 301, 307, and 308)
// in the client. The Docker client (and by extension docker API client) can be
// made to send a request like POST /containers//start where what would normally
// be in the name section of the URL is empty. This triggers an HTTP 301 from
// the daemon.
// Go 1.8 changed behavior for HTTP redirects (specifically 301, 307, and 308)
// in the client. The client (and by extension API client) can be made to send
// a request like "POST /containers//start" where what would normally be in the
// name section of the URL is empty. This triggers an HTTP 301 from the daemon.
//
// In go 1.8 this 301 will be converted to a GET request, and ends up getting
// In go 1.8 this 301 is converted to a GET request, and ends up getting
// a 404 from the daemon. This behavior change manifests in the client in that
// before, the 301 was not followed and the client did not generate an error,
// but now results in a message like Error response from daemon: page not found.
func CheckRedirect(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
// but now results in a message like "Error response from daemon: page not found".
func CheckRedirect(_ *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
if via[0].Method == http.MethodGet {
return http.ErrUseLastResponse
}
@@ -150,11 +152,11 @@ func CheckRedirect(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
// default API host and version. It also initializes the custom HTTP headers to
// add to each request.
//
// It takes an optional list of Opt functional arguments, which are applied in
// It takes an optional list of [Opt] functional arguments, which are applied in
// the order they're provided, which allows modifying the defaults when creating
// the client. For example, the following initializes a client that configures
// itself with values from environment variables (client.FromEnv), and has
// automatic API version negotiation enabled (client.WithAPIVersionNegotiation()).
// itself with values from environment variables ([FromEnv]), and has automatic
// API version negotiation enabled ([WithAPIVersionNegotiation]).
//
// cli, err := client.NewClientWithOpts(
// client.FromEnv,
@@ -221,7 +223,7 @@ func (cli *Client) Close() error {
return nil
}
// getAPIPath returns the versioned request path to call the api.
// getAPIPath returns the versioned request path to call the API.
// It appends the query parameters to the path if they are not empty.
func (cli *Client) getAPIPath(ctx context.Context, p string, query url.Values) string {
var apiPath string
@@ -249,8 +251,8 @@ func (cli *Client) ClientVersion() string {
// by the client, it uses the client's maximum version.
//
// If a manual override is in place, either through the "DOCKER_API_VERSION"
// (EnvOverrideAPIVersion) environment variable, or if the client is initialized
// with a fixed version (WithVersion(xx)), no negotiation is performed.
// ([EnvOverrideAPIVersion]) environment variable, or if the client is initialized
// with a fixed version ([WithVersion]), no negotiation is performed.
//
// If the API server's ping response does not contain an API version, or if the
// client did not get a successful ping response, it assumes it is connected with
@@ -270,8 +272,8 @@ func (cli *Client) NegotiateAPIVersion(ctx context.Context) {
// version.
//
// If a manual override is in place, either through the "DOCKER_API_VERSION"
// (EnvOverrideAPIVersion) environment variable, or if the client is initialized
// with a fixed version (WithVersion(xx)), no negotiation is performed.
// ([EnvOverrideAPIVersion]) environment variable, or if the client is initialized
// with a fixed version ([WithVersion]), no negotiation is performed.
//
// If the API server's ping response does not contain an API version, we assume
// we are connected with an old daemon without API version negotiation support,
@@ -344,9 +346,10 @@ func ParseHostURL(host string) (*url.URL, error) {
}
// Dialer returns a dialer for a raw stream connection, with an HTTP/1.1 header,
// that can be used for proxying the daemon connection.
// that can be used for proxying the daemon connection. It is used by
// ["docker dial-stdio"].
//
// Used by `docker dial-stdio` (docker/cli#889).
// ["docker dial-stdio"]: https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1014
func (cli *Client) Dialer() func(context.Context) (net.Conn, error) {
return func(ctx context.Context) (net.Conn, error) {
if transport, ok := cli.client.Transport.(*http.Transport); ok {