On 8/3/06, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just a heads up... Next week I'll be checking in a new module that
provides an APP client API. Right now, the module is a fairly thin
wrapper on top of the commons http client, but adds a client-side HTTP
cache and easier support for conditional operations.
Any reason you haven't been developing this in the tree, as opposed to
dropping a mostly completed module on us? Seeing the development of
such things is useful, as it's often easier to digest code
incrementally as opposed to having to start from the completed
version...
For example,
// prepare the request
Client client = ClientFactory.INSTANCE.newClient();
ClientRequestContext rc =
client.createRequestContext(
"GET","http://www.snellspace.com/wp/wp-atom1.php";);
Yet another factory? Is that really necessary?
// execute the request
ClientResponseContext resp =
(ClientResponseContext) client.process(rc);
// check the status
System.out.println(resp.getStatus());
// a second request will pull the response from the client cache
// Cache-Control directives are respected. Stale cached responses are
// revalidated.
resp = (ClientResponseContext) client.process(rc);
System.out.println(resp.getStatus());
There are still lots of little issues to work out, such as whether or
not to buffer the InputStream coming from the commons HttpClient so that
the connection can be released, but, for the most part, I've got the
client code working.
Again, it seems like this kind of thing could be "worked out" in the
repos and on this list, unless that's what you mean and I'm
missunderstanding...
-garrett
