Package org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods

Class DeleteMethod

java.lang.Object

org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase

org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.DeleteMethod

All Implemented Interfaces:

HttpMethod

public class DeleteMethod
extends HttpMethodBase

Implements the HTTP DELETE method.

The HTTP DELETE method is defined in section 9.7 of RFC2616:

The DELETE method requests that the origin server delete the resource identified by the Request-URI. This method MAY be overridden by human intervention (or other means) on the origin server.

Since:

1.0

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DeleteMethod()	No-arg constructor.
DeleteMethod(java.lang.String uri)	Constructor specifying a URI.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.lang.String	getName()	Returns "DELETE".

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase

abort, addRequestHeader, addRequestHeader, addResponseFooter, execute, getAuthenticationRealm, getDoAuthentication, getEffectiveVersion, getFollowRedirects, getHostAuthState, getHostConfiguration, getMethodRetryHandler, getParams, getPath, getProxyAuthenticationRealm, getProxyAuthState, getQueryString, getRecoverableExceptionCount, getRequestCharSet, getRequestHeader, getRequestHeaders, getRequestHeaders, getResponseBody, getResponseBody, getResponseBodyAsStream, getResponseBodyAsString, getResponseBodyAsString, getResponseCharSet, getResponseContentLength, getResponseFooter, getResponseFooters, getResponseHeader, getResponseHeaders, getResponseHeaders, getStatusCode, getStatusLine, getStatusText, getURI, hasBeenUsed, isAborted, isHttp11, isRequestSent, isStrictMode, recycle, releaseConnection, removeRequestHeader, removeRequestHeader, setDoAuthentication, setFollowRedirects, setHostConfiguration, setHttp11, setMethodRetryHandler, setParams, setPath, setQueryString, setQueryString, setRequestHeader, setRequestHeader, setStrictMode, setURI, validate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DeleteMethod

public DeleteMethod()

No-arg constructor.

Since:

1.0

DeleteMethod

public DeleteMethod(java.lang.String uri)

Constructor specifying a URI.

Parameters:

uri - either an absolute or relative URI

Since:

1.0

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Returns "DELETE".

Specified by:

getName in interface HttpMethod

Specified by:

getName in class HttpMethodBase

Returns:

"DELETE"

Since:

2.0