Stream: wasi

Topic: "child resources"

view this post on Zulip Andy Wingo (Aug 29 2025 at 12:03):

Hi, is the notion of "child resources" defined somewhere? Am looking at e.g. https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-http/blob/main/wit-0.3.0-draft/types.wit#L304.

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view this post on Zulip Till Schneidereit (Aug 29 2025 at 12:43):

relevant discussion: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/issues/552

Conventional semantics for acquiring a stream from a resource combined with drop · Issue #552 · WebAssembly/component-model
Many upcoming WASIp3 APIs are based on stream and future. Many APIs also work with a resource such as an HTTP body. This gives rise to a situation where a guest can receive an HTTP request, acquire...

view this post on Zulip Lann Martin (Aug 29 2025 at 12:49):

tldr it isn't part of the component model spec, its a convention about parent / child resource lifetimes

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