The `/v1/client/fs/stream endpoint` supports tailing a file by writing
chunks out as they come in. But not all browsers support streams
(ex IE11) so we need to be able to tail a file without streaming.
The fs stream and logs endpoint use the same implementation for
filesystem streaming under the hood, but the fs stream always passes
the `follow` parameter set to true. This adds the same toggle to the
fs stream endpoint that we have for logs. It defaults to true for
backwards compatibility.
httptest.ResponseRecorder exposes a bytes.Buffer which we were reading
and writing concurrently to test streaming log APIs. This is a race, so
I wrapped the struct in a lock with some helpers.
This PR enhances the API package by having client only RPCs route
through the server when they are low cost and for filesystem access to
first attempt a direct connection to the node and then falling back to
a server routed request.
Many thanks to @iverberk for the original PR (#1609), but we ended up
not wanting to ship this implementation with 0.5.
We'll come back to it after 0.5 and hopefully find a way to leverage
filesystem accounting and quotas, so we can skip the expensive polling.
Tim Gross