A few ideas: options.extendTypes.custom, options.handler, split buffer thingy?

[Charlike Mike Reagent]

Get an ideas.

split buffer thingy

Currently (in v2.0):

• if you wanna buffer body, you should pass options.buffer: true and trick the things through options.extendTypes.text (because that's the only way to use the this.request.buffer parser to parse buffers). you will receive it in this.request.body
• If you wanna limit the buffer size you should pass options.textLimit or options.bufferLimit

I'm asking myself, isn't it will be better if there's separate if for options.extendTypes.buffer and try to parse it separate from text? So i came to the next idea for extendTypes.custom

options.extendTypes.custom and options.handler

So, to be able hack the things legally. Meaning if you wanna parse foo/bar-x type, for instance, you will pass that type to options.extendTypes.custom: ['foo/bar-x'], then options.handler.call(ctx, ctx, options, next) will be called.

related: #22 and #31

This will give you the freedom and ability to do whatever you want:

1. access the this context (ctx)
2. access the original options (options)
3. to use all of the parsers - ctx.request.json, ctx.request.urlencoded, ctx.request.multipart, ctx.request.text and ctx.request.buffer
4. and what your mind can think

[Charlike Mike Reagent]

@codeinvain, @ztrange, @LaurensRietveld, @internalfx, @creeperyang and @daiwhea, thoughts?

[Mario Ferreira]

It sounds cool!

On an unrelated matter, since you stopped using this.body, I think the major version (semver) should be bumped, since it is a breaking change.

[Bryan Morris]

@ztrange I agree.

@tunnckoCore I think these are great additions. However, they are very likely to break existing apps.

[Charlike Mike Reagent]

@ztrange, i'm not sure enough. in one side, it is bugfix to wrong behaviour - it was total mistake, in another yea it is breaking change, but dont thinking for major bump, but for minor definitely.

about the ideas, i'll try to push them today.

[Charlike Mike Reagent]

but yea maybe you are right, i'll add these features and bump major directly

[Charlike Mike Reagent]

All is implemented as suggested.