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The HttpRequestEncoder.java Java example source code

/*
 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
 *
 * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
 * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
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 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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package io.netty.handler.codec.http;

import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import io.netty.buffer.ByteBufUtil;
import io.netty.util.AsciiString;
import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;

import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpConstants.CR;
import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpConstants.LF;
import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpConstants.SP;

/**
 * Encodes an {@link HttpRequest} or an {@link HttpContent} into
 * a {@link ByteBuf}.
 */
public class HttpRequestEncoder extends HttpObjectEncoder<HttpRequest> {
    private static final char SLASH = '/';
    private static final char QUESTION_MARK = '?';
    private static final byte[] CRLF = { CR, LF };

    @Override
    public boolean acceptOutboundMessage(Object msg) throws Exception {
        return super.acceptOutboundMessage(msg) && !(msg instanceof HttpResponse);
    }

    @Override
    protected void encodeInitialLine(ByteBuf buf, HttpRequest request) throws Exception {
        AsciiString method = request.method().asciiName();
        ByteBufUtil.copy(method, method.arrayOffset(), buf, method.length());
        buf.writeByte(SP);

        // Add / as absolute path if no is present.
        // See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-5.1.2
        String uri = request.uri();

        if (uri.length() == 0) {
            uri += SLASH;
        } else {
            int start = uri.indexOf("://");
            if (start != -1 && uri.charAt(0) != SLASH) {
                int startIndex = start + 3;
                // Correctly handle query params.
                // See https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/2732
                int index = uri.indexOf(QUESTION_MARK, startIndex);
                if (index == -1) {
                    if (uri.lastIndexOf(SLASH) <= startIndex) {
                        uri += SLASH;
                    }
                } else {
                    if (uri.lastIndexOf(SLASH, index) <= startIndex) {
                        int len = uri.length();
                        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(len + 1);
                        sb.append(uri, 0, index)
                          .append(SLASH)
                          .append(uri, index, len);
                        uri = sb.toString();
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        buf.writeBytes(uri.getBytes(CharsetUtil.UTF_8));

        buf.writeByte(SP);
        request.protocolVersion().encode(buf);
        buf.writeBytes(CRLF);
    }
}