Package org.pentaho.di.core

Class HTTPProtocol

java.lang.Object

org.pentaho.di.core.HTTPProtocol

public class HTTPProtocol
extends Object

HTTP

This class contains HTTP protocol properties such as request headers. Response headers and other properties of the HTTP protocol can be added to this class.

Author:

sflatley

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
HTTPProtocol()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	get(String urlAsString, String username, String password)	Performs a get on urlAsString using username and password as credentials.
static String[]	getRequestHeaders()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

HTTPProtocol

public HTTPProtocol()

Method Details

getRequestHeaders

public static String[] getRequestHeaders()

Returns:

array of HTTP request headers

get

public String get(String urlAsString,
 String username,
 String password)
           throws IOException,
org.apache.http.auth.AuthenticationException

Performs a get on urlAsString using username and password as credentials.

If the status code returned not -1 and 401 then the contents are returned. If the status code is 401 an AuthenticationException is thrown.

All other values of status code are not dealt with but logic can be added as needed.

Parameters:

urlAsString - The url to connect to

username - Basic Authentication username

password - Basic Authentication password

Returns:

If the status code returned not -1 and 401 then the contents are returned. If the status code is 401 an AuthenticationException is thrown.

Throws:

org.apache.http.auth.AuthenticationException

IOException