1 /* 2 * $HeadURL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/module-client/src/main/java/org/apache/http/client/methods/HttpPost.java $ 3 * $Revision: 664505 $ 4 * $Date: 2008-06-08 06:21:20 -0700 (Sun, 08 Jun 2008) $ 5 * 6 * ==================================================================== 7 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 8 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 9 * distributed with this work for additional information 10 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 11 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 12 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 13 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 14 * 15 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 16 * 17 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 18 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 19 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 20 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 21 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 22 * under the License. 23 * ==================================================================== 24 * 25 * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many 26 * individuals on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation. For more 27 * information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see 28 * <http://www.apache.org/>. 29 * 30 */ 31 32 package org.apache.http.client.methods; 33 34 import java.net.URI; 35 36 /** 37 * HTTP POST method. 38 * <p> 39 * The HTTP POST method is defined in section 9.5 of 40 * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC2616</a>: 41 * <blockquote> 42 * The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity 43 * enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by 44 * the Request-URI in the Request-Line. POST is designed to allow a uniform 45 * method to cover the following functions: 46 * <ul> 47 * <li>Annotation of existing resources</li> 48 * <li>Posting a message to a bulletin board, newsgroup, mailing list, or 49 * similar group of articles</li> 50 * <li>Providing a block of data, such as the result of submitting a form, 51 * to a data-handling process</li> 52 * <li>Extending a database through an append operation</li> 53 * </ul> 54 * </blockquote> 55 * </p> 56 * 57 * @version $Revision: 664505 $ 58 * 59 * @since 4.0 60 */ 61 public class HttpPost extends HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase { 62 63 public final static String METHOD_NAME = "POST"; 64 HttpPost()65 public HttpPost() { 66 super(); 67 } 68 HttpPost(final URI uri)69 public HttpPost(final URI uri) { 70 super(); 71 setURI(uri); 72 } 73 74 /** 75 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the uri is invalid. 76 */ HttpPost(final String uri)77 public HttpPost(final String uri) { 78 super(); 79 setURI(URI.create(uri)); 80 } 81 82 @Override getMethod()83 public String getMethod() { 84 return METHOD_NAME; 85 } 86 87 } 88