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27  package org.apache.hc.client5.http.entity;
28  
29  import java.nio.charset.Charset;
30  import java.util.List;
31  
32  import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ContentType;
33  import org.apache.hc.core5.http.NameValuePair;
34  import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.StringEntity;
35  import org.apache.hc.core5.net.WWWFormCodec;
36  
37  /**
38   * An entity composed of a list of url-encoded pairs.
39   * This is typically useful while sending an HTTP POST request.
40   *
41   * @since 4.0
42   */
43  public class UrlEncodedFormEntity extends StringEntity {
44  
45      /**
46       * Constructs a new {@link UrlEncodedFormEntity} with the list
47       * of parameters in the specified encoding.
48       *
49       * @param parameters iterable collection of name/value pairs
50       * @param charset encoding the name/value pairs be encoded with
51       *
52       * @since 4.2
53       */
54      public UrlEncodedFormEntity(
55              final Iterable<? extends NameValuePair> parameters,
56              final Charset charset) {
57          super(WWWFormCodec.format(
58                  parameters,
59                  charset != null ? charset : ContentType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED.getCharset()),
60                  charset != null ? ContentType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED.withCharset(charset) : ContentType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED);
61      }
62  
63      /**
64       * Constructs a new {@link UrlEncodedFormEntity} with the list
65       * of parameters with the default encoding of {@link ContentType#APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED}
66       *
67       * @param parameters list of name/value pairs
68       */
69      public UrlEncodedFormEntity (final List <? extends NameValuePair> parameters){
70          this(parameters, null);
71      }
72  
73      /**
74       * Constructs a new {@link UrlEncodedFormEntity} with the list
75       * of parameters with the default encoding of {@link ContentType#APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED}
76       *
77       * @param parameters iterable collection of name/value pairs
78       *
79       * @since 4.2
80       */
81      public UrlEncodedFormEntity (
82          final Iterable <? extends NameValuePair> parameters) {
83          this(parameters, null);
84      }
85  
86  }