org.apache.catalina

Interface HttpResponse

All Superinterfaces:

Response

All Known Implementing Classes:

DummyResponse, HttpResponseWrapper, PECoyoteResponse, Response

public interface HttpResponse
extends Response

An HttpResponse is the Catalina-internal facade for an HttpServletResponse that is to be produced, based on the processing of a corresponding HttpRequest.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 2005/12/08 01:27:16 $

Author:

Craig R. McClanahan

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	addSessionCookieInternal(javax.servlet.http.Cookie cookie) Special method for adding a session cookie as we should be overriding any previous
String	getHeader(String name) Return the value for the specified header, or null if this header has not been set.
Collection<String>	getHeaderNames()
Collection<String>	getHeaders(String name)
String	getMessage() Return the error message that was set with sendError() for this Response.
int	getStatus() Return the HTTP status code associated with this Response.
void	reset(int status, String message) Reset this response, and specify the values for the HTTP status code and corresponding message.
void	sendAcknowledgement() Send an acknowledgment of a request.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.catalina.Response

createOutputStream, encode, finishResponse, getConnector, getContentCount, getContentLength, getContentType, getContext, getDetailMessage, getIncluded, getInfo, getReporter, getRequest, getResponse, getStream, isAppCommitted, isError, isSuspended, recycle, resetBuffer, resetBuffer, setAppCommitted, setConnector, setContext, setDetailMessage, setError, setIncluded, setRequest, setStream, setSuspended

Method Detail

getHeader

String getHeader(String name)

Return the value for the specified header, or null if this header has not been set. If more than one value was added for this name, only the first is returned; use getHeaders(String) to retrieve all of them.

Parameters:

name - Header name to look up

getHeaderNames

Collection<String> getHeaderNames()

Returns:

a (possibly empty) Collection of the names of the headers of this response

getHeaders

Collection<String> getHeaders(String name)

Parameters:

name - the name of the response header whose values to return

Returns:

a (possibly empty) Collection of the values of the response header with the given name

addSessionCookieInternal

void addSessionCookieInternal(javax.servlet.http.Cookie cookie)

Special method for adding a session cookie as we should be overriding any previous

Parameters:

cookie -

getMessage

String getMessage()

Return the error message that was set with sendError() for this Response.

getStatus

int getStatus()

Return the HTTP status code associated with this Response.

reset

void reset(int status,
           String message)

Reset this response, and specify the values for the HTTP status code and corresponding message.

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if this response has already been committed

sendAcknowledgement

void sendAcknowledgement()
                  throws IOException

Send an acknowledgment of a request. An acknowledgment in this case is simply an HTTP response status line, i.e. HTTP/1.1 [STATUS] [REASON-PHRASE].

Specified by:

sendAcknowledgement in interface Response

Throws:

IOException - if an input/output error occurs