com.limegroup.gnutella.http
Class HTTPRequestMethod

java.lang.Object
  com.limegroup.gnutella.http.HTTPRequestMethod

public abstract class HTTPRequestMethod
extends java.lang.Object

Type-safe enum for HTTP request methods, as specified in RFC 2616. The only required methods for HTTP 1.1 compliance are GET and HEAD.

Field Summary

static HTTPRequestMethod	GET Constant for the "GET" request method.
static HTTPRequestMethod	HEAD Constant for the "HEAD" request method.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	toString()
abstract void	writeHttpResponse(HTTPMessage response, java.io.OutputStream os) Abstract method for writing the HTTP response based on the HTTP request method.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

GET

public static final HTTPRequestMethod GET

Constant for the "GET" request method.

HEAD

public static final HTTPRequestMethod HEAD

Constant for the "HEAD" request method.

Method Detail

writeHttpResponse

public abstract void writeHttpResponse(HTTPMessage response,
                                       java.io.OutputStream os)
                                throws java.io.IOException

Abstract method for writing the HTTP response based on the HTTP request method.

Parameters:

response - the HTTPMessage instance that handles writing the actual message

os - the OutputStream to write to

Throws:

IOException - if there was an IO error writing the response

NullPointerException - if either the response or the os arguments are null

java.io.IOException

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object