Merge pull request #473 from subyraman/explore-streams-v2

Add `stream` method for streaming content, add docs and examples
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Eli Uriegas
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# Streaming
Sanic allows you to stream content to the client with the `stream` method. This method accepts a coroutine callback which is passed a `StreamingHTTPResponse` object that is written to. A simple example is like follows:
```python
from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.response import stream
app = Sanic(__name__)
@app.route("/")
async def test(request):
async def sample_streaming_fn(response):
response.write('foo,')
response.write('bar')
return stream(sample_streaming_fn, content_type='text/csv')
```
This is useful in situations where you want to stream content to the client that originates in an external service, like a database. For example, you can stream database records to the client with the asynchronous cursor that `asyncpg` provides:
```python
@app.route("/")
async def index(request):
async def stream_from_db(response):
conn = await asyncpg.connect(database='test')
async with conn.transaction():
async for record in conn.cursor('SELECT generate_series(0, 10)'):
response.write(record[0])
return stream(stream_from_db)
```