com.sun.jersey.client.urlconnection
Interface HttpURLConnectionFactory

public interface HttpURLConnectionFactory

A factory for HttpURLConnection instances.

A factory may be used to create a HttpURLConnection and configure it in a custom manner that is not possible using the Client API.

A factory instance may be registered with the constructor URLConnectionClientHandler.URLConnectionClientHandler(com.sun.jersey.client.urlconnection.HttpURLConnectionFactory). Then the URLConnectionClientHandler instance may be registered with a Client using the constructor Client.Client(com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandler).

Author:

pavel.bucek@sun.com

Method Summary

HttpURLConnection

getHttpURLConnection(URL url) Get a HttpURLConnection for a given URL.

Method Detail

getHttpURLConnection

HttpURLConnection getHttpURLConnection(URL url)
                                       throws IOException

Get a HttpURLConnection for a given URL.

This method is re-entrant so implementation should not return the same HttpURLConnection instance for multiple and concurrent requests.

Parameters:

url - the URL.

Returns:

the HttpURLConnection.

Throws:

IOException