Feature Request: body/2 error when body exceeds MaxLength

[pedep]

Currently, when you process a request that exceeds MaxLength, the incomplete result silently returns.
This is not always that helpful, because an impartial result might not be parseable. Since no error gets returned by hackney, its not possible to distinguish between malformed responses and excessively large responses that have been cropped.

I am using hackney through HTTPoison, and would like to support this behaviour.
Would this use-case fit hackney, or am i better off submitting a PR downstream in HTTPoison?

[benoitc]

should be in hackney. I guess returning {error, {partial_body, Body}} or similar would do the trick

[pedep]

Alright! :)
I toyed around with the idea downstream, and it seems to work fine (edgurgel/httpoison#356)

Are you okay with changing the default behavior, or would it be better to provide a new function/an option?

I wouldn't mind writing a quick PR, but I'm not quite confident enough in my Erlang to guarantee anything good

[benoitc]

i guess it should be an option for the current release version

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