Re: [fetch] Question — Why can I not read the stream again ? (#196)

@annevk Well I can work with this approach as well and I agree with what @tyoshino has explained above. The API wasn't intuitive to me at the same time very difficult for me to explain why. Let me still try to give it a shot —

Intuitively all this time we have been used to thinking that if we have access to the response, we will have access to the body also. And suddenly here I can only access the body once! Which is fine and I might be able to get used to it, but there is a better way I think.

I would have preferred if the body was exposed as a hot observable. I would have been able to reduce the stream to a real JSON, then eventually convert it to a promise (or not).
The advantage of this approach is that I know for a fact that the response body stream will not be available to me for later use as its a Hot Observable.

I can do everything with the current set of APIs also, but this just seems more intuitive to me. Thoughts?

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