org.glassfish.jersey.client
Class RequestWriter

java.lang.Object
  org.glassfish.jersey.client.RequestWriter

public class RequestWriter
extends java.lang.Object

A request writer for writing header values and a request entity.

Author:

Paul Sandoz

Nested Class Summary

protected static interface	RequestWriter.RequestEntityWriter A writer for writing a request entity.
protected static interface	RequestWriter.RequestEntityWriterListener A listener for listening to events when writing a request entity.

Field Summary

protected static java.lang.annotation.Annotation[]

EMPTY_ANNOTATIONS

Constructor Summary

RequestWriter()

Method Summary

protected RequestWriter.RequestEntityWriter	getRequestEntityWriter(Request request) Get a request entity writer capable of writing the request entity.
protected void	writeRequestEntity(Request request, RequestWriter.RequestEntityWriterListener listener) Write a request entity using an appropriate message body writer.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

EMPTY_ANNOTATIONS

protected static final java.lang.annotation.Annotation[] EMPTY_ANNOTATIONS

Constructor Detail

RequestWriter

public RequestWriter()

Method Detail

getRequestEntityWriter

protected RequestWriter.RequestEntityWriter getRequestEntityWriter(Request request)

Get a request entity writer capable of writing the request entity.

Parameters:

request - the client request.

Returns:

the request entity writer.

writeRequestEntity

protected void writeRequestEntity(Request request,
                                  RequestWriter.RequestEntityWriterListener listener)
                           throws java.io.IOException

Write a request entity using an appropriate message body writer.

The method MessageBodyWorkers.MessageBodySizeCallback.onRequestEntitySize(long) will be invoked with the size of the request entity to be serialized. The method RequestWriter.RequestEntityWriterListener.onGetOutputStream() will be invoked when the output stream is required to write the request entity.

Parameters:

request - the client request containing the request entity. If the request entity is null then the method will not write any entity.

listener - the request entity listener.

Throws:

java.io.IOException