Netty 4 HttpChunkedInput throws “unexpected messag

Question

I wrote a netty 4.0.33 https file server that is suppose to send files as chucks. The File-Server-Example Shows when using https to handle the response like this:

// Write the initial line and the header.
channelHandlerContext.write(httpResponse);
// Write the content.
ChannelFuture sendFileFuture;
sendFileFuture = channelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(
     new HttpChunkedInput(new ChunkedFile(accessFile, 0, accessFile.length(), 8192)),     
     channelHandlerContext.newProgressivePromise()
);

My file I tested it with is only 270 byts long so the handler immediately fires the complete event, but with an error;

Transfer failed.java.lang.IllegalStateException: unexpected message type: DefaultHttpContent

which ich caused by the HttpObjectEncoder class that is part of the HttpServerCodec. for some reason the HttpChunkedInput passes a DefaultHttpContent object that seems to be not allowed.

My Pipe Looks like this

HttpServerCodec
HttpObjectAggregator
ChunkedWriteHandler
FileHandler

It looks like a pretty default setup to me. What am I doing wrong here?

UPDATE

I initialized my HttpResponse object for the headers like this:

HttpResponse response = new DefaultFullHttpResponse(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpResponseStatus.OK);

Answer 1

The problem is that you create a DefaultFullHttpResponse.

Please use:

HttpResponse response = new DefaultHttpResponse(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpResponseStatus.OK);