This allows the FileSource interface itself to support revalidation. We could (and probably should) now rewrite HTTPContextBase implementations as FileSource implementations.
Added aliases for std::chrono typedefs (eg. 'Seconds' for
std::chrono::seconds). These aliases are used together with templated
helper functions to replace time_t with std::chrono::seconds for most
cases, in particular for 'modified' and 'expires' values in Response.
We're now returning stale responses from cache. Those responses will have the `stale` flag set to true. Currently, all requesters in the core code discard stale responses, and cancel the request immediately after they got a non-stale response.
By not automatically destroying Request objects after the result has been delivered, we are making sure that we can potentially fire the callback multiple times without adverse effects. This means that you have to hold on to the result of fs->request(), can explicitly cancel it if you don't want to be notified of data changes anymore. Not doing so will monitor the request indefinitely and will prevent the app from exiting.
Thread<T> is a generic thread management object that starts a thread, creates an object T in that thread and calls its .start() function. When the Thread<T> object is destructed (which must happen in the thread that created it), it'll call the object's .stop() function, and wait for thread termination. The .stop() function must somehow get the thread to terminate. Note that object T's constructor/destructor/start()/stop() must be protected/private, and Thread<T> must be declared as a friend class. All public functions may be called from any thread and are exposed through operator->().
RunLoop encapsulates a libuv runloop and has a facility of dispatching function objects to the thread. It can be used either as a worker thread class by itself, or it can be derived from. This commit converts SQLiteCache to derive from RunLoop and removes the custom code used previously for managing the cache thread.
we are now scoping all file requests to an environment object. The FileSource implementation treats
this as an opaque pointer, but allows canceling all Requests that are associated with that pointer.
This is necessary to abort all file requests that originated from a particular Map object. Aborting
a file request is different from canceling a file request: A canceled request doesn't have its
callback called, while an aborted request will have its callback called with an error, indicating
that the environment is going to be shut down.
