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27
28 package org.apache.http.client.methods;
29
30 import java.net.URI;
31
32 /**
33 * HTTP GET method.
34 * <p>
35 * The HTTP GET method is defined in section 9.3 of
36 * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC2616</a>:
37 * </p>
38 * <blockquote>
39 * The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an
40 * entity) is identified by the Request-URI. If the Request-URI refers
41 * to a data-producing process, it is the produced data which shall be
42 * returned as the entity in the response and not the source text of the
43 * process, unless that text happens to be the output of the process.
44 * </blockquote>
45 *
46 * @since 4.0
47 */
48 public class HttpGet extends HttpRequestBase {
49
50 public final static String METHOD_NAME = "GET";
51
52 public HttpGet() {
53 super();
54 }
55
56 public HttpGet(final URI uri) {
57 super();
58 setURI(uri);
59 }
60
61 /**
62 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the uri is invalid.
63 */
64 public HttpGet(final String uri) {
65 super();
66 setURI(URI.create(uri));
67 }
68
69 @Override
70 public String getMethod() {
71 return METHOD_NAME;
72 }
73
74 }