org.geotools.http

Interface HTTPClient

All Known Subinterfaces:

HTTPClient

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractHttpClient, DelegateHTTPClient, DelegateHTTPClient, LoggingHTTPClient, LoggingHTTPClient, MultithreadedHttpClient, MultithreadedHttpClient, MultithreadedHttpClient, SimpleHttpClient, SimpleHttpClient

public interface HTTPClient

Defines the inteface by which an AbstractOpenWebService executes HTTP requests.

Author:

groldan

See Also:

HTTPResponse, SimpleHttpClient, AbstractOpenWebService#setHttpClient(HTTPClient)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
HTTPResponse	get(URL url) Executes an HTTP GET request against the provided URL and returns the server response.
default HTTPResponse	get(URL url, Map<String,String> headers) Executes an HTTP GET request against the provided URL and returns the server response.
int	getConnectTimeout()
String	getPassword()
int	getReadTimeout()
String	getUser()
boolean	isTryGzip()
HTTPResponse	post(URL url, InputStream postContent, String postContentType) Executes an HTTP POST request against the provided URL, sending the contents of postContent as the POST method body and setting the Content-Type request header to postContentType if given, and returns the server response.
void	setConnectTimeout(int connectTimeout)
void	setPassword(String password)
void	setReadTimeout(int readTimeout)
void	setTryGzip(boolean tryGZIP)
void	setUser(String user)

Method Detail

post

HTTPResponse post(URL url,
                  InputStream postContent,
                  String postContentType)
           throws IOException

Executes an HTTP POST request against the provided URL, sending the contents of postContent as the POST method body and setting the Content-Type request header to postContentType if given, and returns the server response.

If an HTTP authentication user and password is set, the appropriate authentication HTTP header will be sent with the request.

If a connection timeout is set, the http connection will be set to respect that timeout.

If a read timeout is set, the http connection will be set to respect it.

Parameters:

url - the URL against which to execute the POST request

postContent - an input stream with the contents of the POST body

postContentType - the MIME type of the contents sent as the request POST body, can be null

Returns:

the HTTPResponse encapsulating the response to the HTTP POST request

Throws:

IOException

get

HTTPResponse get(URL url)
          throws IOException

Executes an HTTP GET request against the provided URL and returns the server response.

If an HTTP authentication user and password is set, the appropriate authentication HTTP header will be sent with the request.

If a connection timeout is set, the http connection will be set to respect that timeout.

If a read timeout is set, the http connection will be set to respect it.

Parameters:

url - the URL to retrieve

Returns:

an HTTPResponse encapsulating the response to the HTTP GET request

Throws:

IOException

get

default HTTPResponse get(URL url,
                         Map<String,String> headers)
                  throws IOException

Executes an HTTP GET request against the provided URL and returns the server response.

If an HTTP authentication user and password is set, the appropriate authentication HTTP header will be sent with the request.

If a connection timeout is set, the http connection will be set to respect that timeout.

If a read timeout is set, the http connection will be set to respect it.

header parameter contains additional headers to add to the request.

Parameters:

url - the URL to retrieve

headers - a list of custom headers to add to the request.

Returns:

an HTTPResponse encapsulating the response to the HTTP GET request

Throws:

IOException

getUser

String getUser()

Returns:

the HTTP BASIC Authentication user name, or null if not set

setUser

void setUser(String user)

Parameters:

user - the HTTP BASIC Authentication user name

getPassword

String getPassword()

Returns:

the HTTP BASIC Authentication password, or null if not set

setPassword

void setPassword(String password)

Parameters:

password - the HTTP BASIC Authentication password

getConnectTimeout

int getConnectTimeout()

Returns:

the tcp/ip connect timeout in seconds

setConnectTimeout

void setConnectTimeout(int connectTimeout)

Parameters:

connectTimeout - tcp/ip connect timeout in seconds

getReadTimeout

int getReadTimeout()

Returns:

the socket read timeout in seconds

setReadTimeout

void setReadTimeout(int readTimeout)

Parameters:

readTimeout - socket read timeout in seconds

setTryGzip

void setTryGzip(boolean tryGZIP)

Parameters:

tryGZIP -

isTryGzip

boolean isTryGzip()

Returns:

whether gzip content encoding will be attempted; defaults to false