au.edu.anu.portal.portlets.sakaiconnector.support

Class HttpSupport

java.lang.Object

au.edu.anu.portal.portlets.sakaiconnector.support.HttpSupport

public class HttpSupport
extends Object

HTTP support class. Takes care of HTTP related methods

Author:

Steve Swinsburg (steve.swinsburg@anu.edu.au)

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
HttpSupport()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static Map<String,String>	deserialiseParameterMap(Map<String,String[]> params) Deserialise the result of request.getParameterMap to convert a query string back into a single valued map.
static String	doPost(String address, Map<String,String> params) Make a POST request with the given Map of parameters to be encoded
static String	postLaunchHtml(String address, Map<String,String> params) Generate a HTML form that will automatically submit itself, based on the parameters supplied.
static String	serialiseMapToQueryString(Map<String,String> params) Serialise the given Map of parameters to a URL query string

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

HttpSupport

public HttpSupport()

Method Detail

doPost

public static String doPost(String address,
            Map<String,String> params)

Make a POST request with the given Map of parameters to be encoded

Parameters:

address - address to POST to

params - Map of params to use as the form parameters

Returns:

serialiseMapToQueryString

public static String serialiseMapToQueryString(Map<String,String> params)

Serialise the given Map of parameters to a URL query string

Parameters:

params - Map of params

Returns:

deserialiseParameterMap

public static Map<String,String> deserialiseParameterMap(Map<String,String[]> params)

Deserialise the result of request.getParameterMap to convert a query string back into a single valued map.

Note, only the first value is kept.

Parameters:

map - Map map from request.getParameterMap

Returns:

postLaunchHtml

public static String postLaunchHtml(String address,
                    Map<String,String> params)

Generate a HTML form that will automatically submit itself, based on the parameters supplied. This is so the client does the POST and gets the session cookie back from the endpoint.

Parameters:

endpoint -

params -

Returns: