Exposed Channelpipeline

[dobermai]

In order to plug in new Handlers to the Channelpipeline I exposed Nettys Channelpipeline via a getter in the RestExpress class. This enables Plugins to hook in new Handlers (like SSL Handlers, etc)

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[tfredrich]

Thanks for the pull request. Did it accomplish what you needed? It is my understanding that Netty uses the PipelineFactory (PipelineBuilder in the case of RestExpress) to create a new pipeline for each request. So my feeling is that this wouldn't work for plugging in additional items into the pipeline, unless you're able to stitch it in on each request--which the plugin framework doesn't support.

Interested in your thoughts... thanks!

[hmandala]

The ability to plug components into the pipeline would be great. I would like to add an HttpChunkAggregator, for instance. It's not clear to me if this is possible with the present version of the source.