Feature Proposal: Network Capabilities

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Overview

The goal is to add additional settings for requests that respect the capabilities of each device. URLSession is an excellent example of the options available to developers.

1. allowsCellularAccess: Bool

   Allows/prevents executing a request using cellular data.

2. allowsExpensiveNetworkAccess: Bool

   Allows/prevents executing a request on a network interface labeled by the operating system as expensive.

3. allowsConstrainedNetworkAccess: Bool

   Allows/prevents executing a request when the data-saving option is active.

4. waitsForConnectivity: Bool

   Waits for the device to be connected to the internet before executing the request.

Points to Consider

In a preliminary assessment, to implement these features in RequestDL, it will be necessary to use the Network framework, which is also used by AsyncHTTPClient to provide waitsForConnectivity.

Therefore, before starting the implementation, it is important to verify if it is possible to achieve the same results using Swift and other available APIs to deliver the features also on Linux. Otherwise, it will be necessary to update the code and make the methods related to the Apple Network framework unavailable.

Milestone: 3.0.4

[o-nnerb]

This is being moved to 3.0.4 milestone because this will required some code before implementing this to all platforms.