Java example source code file (EchoHandler.java)

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bytearrayentity, echohandler, get, httpcontext, httpentityenclosingrequest, httpexception, httprequest, httprequesthandler, httpresponse, io, ioexception, methodnotsupportedexception, post, put, string, util

The EchoHandler.java example source code

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package org.apache.http.localserver;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Locale;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntityEnclosingRequest;
import org.apache.http.HttpException;
import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.http.MethodNotSupportedException;
import org.apache.http.entity.ByteArrayEntity;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestHandler;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;



/**
 * A handler that echos the incoming request entity.
 * 
 *
 *
 * <!-- empty lines to avoid 'svn diff' problems -->
 */
public class EchoHandler
    implements HttpRequestHandler {

    // public default constructor

    /**
     * Handles a request by echoing the incoming request entity.
     * If there is no request entity, an empty document is returned.
     *
     * @param request   the request
     * @param response  the response
     * @param context   the context
     *
     * @throws HttpException    in case of a problem
     * @throws IOException      in case of an IO problem
     */
    public void handle(final HttpRequest request, 
                       final HttpResponse response,
                       final HttpContext context)
        throws HttpException, IOException {

        String method = request.getRequestLine().getMethod().toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH);
        if (!"GET".equals(method) &&
            !"POST".equals(method) &&
            !"PUT".equals(method)
            ) {
            throw new MethodNotSupportedException
                (method + " not supported by " + getClass().getName());
        }

        HttpEntity entity = null;
        if (request instanceof HttpEntityEnclosingRequest)
            entity = ((HttpEntityEnclosingRequest)request).getEntity();

        // For some reason, just putting the incoming entity into
        // the response will not work. We have to buffer the message.
        byte[] data;
        if (entity == null) {
            data = new byte [0];
        } else {
            data = EntityUtils.toByteArray(entity);
        }

        ByteArrayEntity bae = new ByteArrayEntity(data);
        if (entity != null) {
            bae.setContentType(entity.getContentType());
        }
        entity = bae;

        response.setStatusCode(HttpStatus.SC_OK);
        response.setEntity(entity);

    } // handle


} // class EchoHandler