org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http

Interface HttpMessage

All Known Subinterfaces:

HttpRequest, HttpResponse

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultHttpMessage, DefaultHttpRequest, DefaultHttpResponse

public interface HttpMessage

An HTTP message which provides common properties for HttpRequest and HttpResponse.

See Also:

HttpHeaders

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ChannelBuffer	getContent() Returns the content of this message.
HttpVersion	getProtocolVersion() Returns the protocol version of this message.
HttpHeaders	headers() Returns the headers of this message.
boolean	isChunked() Returns true if and only if this message does not have any content but the HttpChunks, which is generated by HttpMessageDecoder consecutively, contain the actual content.
void	setChunked(boolean chunked) Sets if this message does not have any content but the HttpChunks, which is generated by HttpMessageDecoder consecutively, contain the actual content.
void	setContent(ChannelBuffer content) Sets the content of this message.
void	setProtocolVersion(HttpVersion version) Sets the protocol version of this message.

Method Detail

getProtocolVersion

HttpVersion getProtocolVersion()

Returns the protocol version of this message.

setProtocolVersion

void setProtocolVersion(HttpVersion version)

Sets the protocol version of this message.

headers

HttpHeaders headers()

Returns the headers of this message.

getContent

ChannelBuffer getContent()

Returns the content of this message. If there is no content or isChunked() returns true, an ChannelBuffers.EMPTY_BUFFER is returned.

setContent

void setContent(ChannelBuffer content)

Sets the content of this message. If null is specified, the content of this message will be set to ChannelBuffers.EMPTY_BUFFER.

isChunked

boolean isChunked()

Returns true if and only if this message does not have any content but the HttpChunks, which is generated by HttpMessageDecoder consecutively, contain the actual content.

Please note that this method will keep returning true if the "Transfer-Encoding" of this message is "chunked", even if you attempt to override this property by calling setChunked(boolean) with false.

setChunked

void setChunked(boolean chunked)

Sets if this message does not have any content but the HttpChunks, which is generated by HttpMessageDecoder consecutively, contain the actual content.

If this method is called with true, the content of this message becomes ChannelBuffers.EMPTY_BUFFER.

Even if this method is called with false, isChunked() will keep returning true if the "Transfer-Encoding" of this message is "chunked".