HTTPResponse (Geotools modules 31-SNAPSHOT API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultHttpResponse, DelegateHTTPResponse
```
public interface HTTPResponse
```
Interface by which an AbstractOpenWebService retrieves the contents of an HTTP request issued through its HTTPClient.
An HTTPResponse instance shall be disposed as soon as it's response stream has been consumed or is no longer needed. It's up to the implementations to just close the actual InputStream or return the http connection to the connection pool, or any other resource clean up task that needs to be done.

Author:

groldan

See Also:

HTTPClient

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`dispose()`	Disposes this HTTP response and cleans up any resource being held.
`String`	`getContentType()`	Short cut for `getResponseHeader("Content-Type")`
`String`	`getResponseCharset()`
`String`	`getResponseHeader(String headerName)`	Returns the value of the requested HTTP response header, or `null` if not set.
`InputStream`	`getResponseStream()`	Returns the HTTP response content byte stream, automatically recognizing gzip encoded responses and returning an uncompressing stream if that's the case.

- Method Detail
  - dispose
```
void dispose()
```
    Disposes this HTTP response and cleans up any resource being held.
    Multiple invocations of this method shall not raise an exception but return silently.
  - getContentType
```
String getContentType()
```
    Short cut for getResponseHeader("Content-Type")
  - getResponseHeader
```
String getResponseHeader(String headerName)
```
    Returns the value of the requested HTTP response header, or null if not set.
  - getResponseStream
```
InputStream getResponseStream()
                       throws IOException
```
    Returns the HTTP response content byte stream, automatically recognizing gzip encoded responses and returning an uncompressing stream if that's the case.
    
    Throws:
    
    IOException - if such happens when obtaining the response stream.
  - getResponseCharset
```
String getResponseCharset()
```
    Returns:
    
    the response charset parsed out of the content type response header, if any, or null otherwise.