t represents an HTTP message body.

of_string creates a fixed length body from a string.

of_bigstring creates a fixed length body from a bigstring.

of_stream takes a string Lwt_stream.t and creates a HTTP body from it.

of_file path creates a response body by reading the file at path.

empty represents a body of size 0L.

copy t creates a new instance of the body t. If the body is a stream, it is be duplicated safely and the initial stream will remain untouched.

to_string t returns a promise that will eventually be filled with a string representation of the body.

to_stream t converts the body to a string Lwt_stream.t.

drain t will repeatedly read values from the body stream and discard them.

sexp_of_t t converts the body t to an s-expression

pp formats the body t as an s-expression

pp_hum formats the body t as an string.

If the body content is a stream, the pretty printer will output the value "<stream>"