org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods
Class GetMethod

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase
      org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod

All Implemented Interfaces:

HttpMethod

public class GetMethod
extends HttpMethodBase

Implements the HTTP GET method.

The HTTP GET method is defined in section 9.3 of RFC2616:

The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an entity) is identified by the Request-URI. If the Request-URI refers to a data-producing process, it is the produced data which shall be returned as the entity in the response and not the source text of the process, unless that text happens to be the output of the process.

GetMethods will follow redirect requests from the http server by default. This behavour can be disabled by calling setFollowRedirects(false).

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Remy Maucherat, Sung-Gu Park, Sean C. Sullivan, Mike Bowler, Jeff Dever

Field Summary

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

effectiveVersion, statusLine

Constructor Summary

GetMethod()
No-arg constructor.

GetMethod(String uri)
Constructor specifying a URI.

Method Summary

String	getName() Returns "GET".
void	recycle() Deprecated. no longer supported and will be removed in the future version of HttpClient

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

abort, addCookieRequestHeader, addHostRequestHeader, addProxyConnectionHeader, addRequestHeader, addRequestHeader, addRequestHeaders, addResponseFooter, addUserAgentRequestHeader, checkNotUsed, checkUsed, execute, generateRequestLine, getAuthenticationRealm, getContentCharSet, getDoAuthentication, getEffectiveVersion, getFollowRedirects, getHostAuthState, getHostConfiguration, getMethodRetryHandler, getParams, getPath, getProxyAuthenticationRealm, getProxyAuthState, getQueryString, getRecoverableExceptionCount, getRequestCharSet, getRequestHeader, getRequestHeaderGroup, getRequestHeaders, getRequestHeaders, getResponseBody, getResponseBody, getResponseBodyAsStream, getResponseBodyAsString, getResponseBodyAsString, getResponseCharSet, getResponseContentLength, getResponseFooter, getResponseFooters, getResponseHeader, getResponseHeaderGroup, getResponseHeaders, getResponseHeaders, getResponseStream, getResponseTrailerHeaderGroup, getStatusCode, getStatusLine, getStatusText, getURI, hasBeenUsed, isAborted, isConnectionCloseForced, isHttp11, isRequestSent, isStrictMode, processCookieHeaders, processResponseBody, processResponseHeaders, processStatusLine, readResponse, readResponseBody, readResponseHeaders, readStatusLine, releaseConnection, removeRequestHeader, removeRequestHeader, responseBodyConsumed, setConnectionCloseForced, setDoAuthentication, setFollowRedirects, setHostConfiguration, setHttp11, setMethodRetryHandler, setParams, setPath, setQueryString, setQueryString, setRequestHeader, setRequestHeader, setResponseStream, setStrictMode, setURI, shouldCloseConnection, validate, writeRequest, writeRequestBody, writeRequestHeaders, writeRequestLine

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

GetMethod

public GetMethod()

No-arg constructor.

Since:

1.0

GetMethod

public GetMethod(String uri)

Constructor specifying a URI.

Parameters:

uri - either an absolute or relative URI

Since:

1.0

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

Returns "GET".

Specified by:

getName in interface HttpMethod

Specified by:

getName in class HttpMethodBase

Returns:

"GET"

Since:

2.0

recycle

public void recycle()

Deprecated. no longer supported and will be removed in the future version of HttpClient

Recycles the HTTP method so that it can be used again. Note that all of the instance variables will be reset once this method has been called. This method will also release the connection being used by this HTTP method.

Specified by:

recycle in interface HttpMethod

Overrides:

recycle in class HttpMethodBase

Since:

1.0

See Also:

HttpMethodBase.releaseConnection()