org.springframework.http.client.support
Class HttpAccessor

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.http.client.support.HttpAccessor

Direct Known Subclasses:

InterceptingHttpAccessor

public abstract class HttpAccessor
extends java.lang.Object

Base class for RestTemplate and other HTTP accessing gateway helpers, defining common properties such as the ClientHttpRequestFactory to operate on.

Not intended to be used directly. See RestTemplate.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Arjen Poutsma, Roy Clarkson

See Also:

RestTemplate

Constructor Summary

protected

HttpAccessor()

Method Summary

protected ClientHttpRequest	createRequest(java.net.URI url, HttpMethod method) Create a new ClientHttpRequest via this template's ClientHttpRequestFactory.
ClientHttpRequestFactory	getRequestFactory() Return the request factory that this accessor uses for obtaining HttpRequests.
void	setRequestFactory(ClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory) Set the request factory that this accessor uses for obtaining HttpRequests.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

HttpAccessor

protected HttpAccessor()

Method Detail

setRequestFactory

public void setRequestFactory(ClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory)

Set the request factory that this accessor uses for obtaining HttpRequests.

getRequestFactory

public ClientHttpRequestFactory getRequestFactory()

Return the request factory that this accessor uses for obtaining HttpRequests.

createRequest

protected ClientHttpRequest createRequest(java.net.URI url,
                                          HttpMethod method)
                                   throws java.io.IOException

Create a new ClientHttpRequest via this template's ClientHttpRequestFactory.

Parameters:

url - the URL to connect to

method - the HTTP method to exectute (GET, POST, etc.)

Returns:

the created request

Throws:

java.io.IOException - in case of I/O errors