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1   /*
2    * Copyright 1999-2001,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
3    * 
4    * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    * 
8    *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9    * 
10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14   * limitations under the License.
15   */
16  
17  package org.apache.commons.latka.http;
18  
19  import java.io.InputStream;
20  
21  /**
22   * A Latka Response represents a response from an HTTP server.
23   *
24   * @author <a href="mailto:dsale@us.britannica.com">Doug Sale</a>
25   * @author <a href="mailto:mdelagra@us.britannica.com">Morgan Delagrange</a>
26   */
27  public interface Response {
28  
29    /**
30     * @return the integer status code provided by the HTTP server.
31     */
32    int getStatusCode();
33  
34    /**
35     * @return the status text (or "reason phrase") associated with the response.
36     */
37    String getStatusText();
38  
39    /**
40     * Returns the resource, in string form, 
41     * provided by the HTTP server
42     * 
43     * @return the contents of the HTTP response body has a String,
44     *         or null if there was no response body
45     */
46    String getResource();
47  
48    /**
49     * Get the actual bytes returned by the web server
50     * 
51     * @return InputStream containing the HTTP response, or null
52     *         if the response contains no body
53     */
54    InputStream getStream();
55  
56    /**
57     * Returns the length of the Response stream (as bytes),
58     * or -1 if no stream is available
59     * 
60     * @return Byte length of the response stream
61     */
62    int getByteLength();
63  
64    /**
65     * Getter for request property
66     * @return the request that generated this response
67     */
68    Request getRequest();
69  
70    /**
71     * Check a response header.  If more than one header
72     * of the same name is encountered, they are collapsed
73     * into one comma-separated String.
74     * 
75     * @param headerName The name of the header to find in the Reponse
76     * @return the value of the header(s), or null if the header does not
77     *         exist
78     */
79    String getHeader(String headerName);
80  }