/* * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source * Copyright 2005-2008, Red Hat Middleware LLC, and individual contributors * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a * full listing of individual contributors. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ package org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; /** * This defines the methods available via a HTTP Request. * * @author The Netty Project (netty-dev@lists.jboss.org) * @author Andy Taylor (andy.taylor@jboss.org) * @version $Rev$, $Date$ * * @apiviz.exclude */ public class HttpMethod implements Comparable { /** * The OPTIONS method represents a request for information about the communication options available on the request/response * chain identified by the Request-URI. This method allows the client to determine the options and/or requirements * associated with a resource, or the capabilities of a server, without implying a resource action or initiating a * resource retrieval. */ public static final HttpMethod OPTIONS = new HttpMethod("OPTIONS"); /** * 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. */ public static final HttpMethod GET = new HttpMethod("GET"); /** * The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response. */ public static final HttpMethod HEAD = new HttpMethod("HEAD"); /** * The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new * subordinate of the resource identified by the Request-URI in the Request-Line. */ public static final HttpMethod POST = new HttpMethod("POST"); /** * The PUT method requests that the enclosed entity be stored under the supplied Request-URI. */ public static final HttpMethod PUT = new HttpMethod("PUT"); /** * The DELETE method requests that the origin server delete the resource identified by the Request-URI. */ public static final HttpMethod DELETE = new HttpMethod("DELETE"); /** * The TRACE method is used to invoke a remote, application-layer loop- back of the request message. */ public static final HttpMethod TRACE = new HttpMethod("TRACE"); /** * This specification reserves the method name CONNECT for use with a proxy that can dynamically switch to being a tunnel */ public static final HttpMethod CONNECT = new HttpMethod("CONNECT"); private static final Map methodMap = new HashMap(); static { methodMap.put(OPTIONS.toString(), OPTIONS); methodMap.put(GET.toString(), GET); methodMap.put(HEAD.toString(), HEAD); methodMap.put(POST.toString(), POST); methodMap.put(PUT.toString(), PUT); methodMap.put(DELETE.toString(), DELETE); methodMap.put(TRACE.toString(), TRACE); methodMap.put(CONNECT.toString(), CONNECT); } public static HttpMethod valueOf(String method) { if (method == null) { throw new NullPointerException("method"); } method = method.trim().toUpperCase(); HttpMethod result = methodMap.get(method); if (result != null) { return result; } else { return new HttpMethod(method); } } private final String method; public HttpMethod(String method) { if (method == null) { throw new NullPointerException("method"); } method = method.trim().toUpperCase(); if (method.length() == 0) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("empty method"); } this.method = method; } @Override public int hashCode() { return method.hashCode(); } @Override public boolean equals(Object o) { if (!(o instanceof HttpMethod)) { return false; } HttpMethod that = (HttpMethod) o; return method.equals(that.method); } @Override public String toString() { return method; } public int compareTo(HttpMethod o) { return method.compareTo(o.method); } }