com.pkrete.xrd4j.rest.client

Class AbstractBodyHandler

java.lang.Object

com.pkrete.xrd4j.rest.client.AbstractClient

com.pkrete.xrd4j.rest.client.AbstractBodyHandler

All Implemented Interfaces:

RESTClient

Direct Known Subclasses:

DeleteClient, PostClient, PutClient

public abstract class AbstractBodyHandler
extends AbstractClient

This abstract class offers method for adding HTTP request body to the HTTP request. Classes implementing POST, PUT or DELETE requests can extend this class.

Author:

Petteri Kivimäki

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbstractBodyHandler()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity	buildRequestEntity(String requestBody, Map<String,String> headers) Builds a new StringEntity object that's used as HTTP request body.

Methods inherited from class com.pkrete.xrd4j.rest.client.AbstractClient

buildtHttpRequest, send

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AbstractBodyHandler

public AbstractBodyHandler()

Method Detail

buildRequestEntity

protected org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity buildRequestEntity(String requestBody,
                                                                 Map<String,String> headers)

Builds a new StringEntity object that's used as HTTP request body. Content type of the request is set according to the given headers. If the given headers do not contain Content-Type header, "application/xml" is used. If the given request body is null or empty, null is returned.

Parameters:

requestBody - request body

headers - HTTP headers to be added to the request

Returns:

new StringEntity object or null