com.q2learning.webtier.webhuddle
Class HttpRequest

java.lang.Object
  com.q2learning.webtier.webhuddle.HttpRequest

public class HttpRequest
extends java.lang.Object

HttpRequest: utility class for requesting a web page via HTTP GET or POST methods.

11/20/2007 Charles Roth. First version.

Copyright (C) 2007 Q2learning LLC, www.q2learning.com. All rights reserved.

Constructor Summary

HttpRequest(java.lang.String url)

Method Summary

void	addParameter(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String value) Add a name/value parameter to the request.
java.lang.String	get() Request the page via the GET method.
java.lang.String	post() Request the page via the POST method.
java.lang.String	toString()
java.lang.String	UrlEncoder(java.lang.String url) Encode ("%hex-code" escape) characters that will be used in the query string of a URL.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

HttpRequest

public HttpRequest(java.lang.String url)

Parameters:

url - URL of page to request. Querystring parameters are usually added by addParameter().

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

useful String form of HttpRequest, as base URL and querystring.

addParameter

public void addParameter(java.lang.String name,
                         java.lang.String value)

Add a name/value parameter to the request. Does any necessary encoding for you. Call once for each parameter, as many times as desired.

Parameters:

name - Parameter name.

value - Parameter value.

UrlEncoder

public java.lang.String UrlEncoder(java.lang.String url)

Encode ("%hex-code" escape) characters that will be used in the query string of a URL.

Parameters:

url - the query string text.

Returns:

String appropriately escaped ("safe for URLs") text.

get

public java.lang.String get()

Request the page via the GET method.

Returns:

The entire HTML text of the page.

post

public java.lang.String post()

Request the page via the POST method.

Returns:

The entire HTML text of the page.