wt.httpgw
Class HTTPRequest

java.lang.Object
  wt.httpgw.HTTPRequest

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, CGIConstants

Direct Known Subclasses:

HTTPRequestImpl

public abstract class HTTPRequest
extends Object
implements CGIConstants, Serializable

This class is a carrier of HTTP request information to a Windchill method server. It uses customized serialization code to stream request bodies to the server. Instances contain information about the request (I.e. CGI environment values) and an input stream reference.

Client-side Serialization The client (HTTP gateway) constructs request objects to carry request information to a method server. The client stores the available HTTP request information in the object and sets the input stream reference to the actual HTTP request's input stream provided by the Web server.

Serialization of the object sends the request information followed by the content of the input stream. The content is forwarded by reading blocks of data from the input stream and writing them to the marshal stream until the entire body has been sent. The length of the body is determined from the content-length HTTP header. If no content-length is specified, it reads until EOF on the input stream.

Server-side Deserialization The server (Windchill method server) receives the request object as an argument to an RMI call. It is deserialized before the target method is invoked. The deserialization code stores a reference to the RMI marshal stream in the object and directly dispatches the target method (HTTPServer.processRequest) prematurely. The body of the request is then available as an input stream to the dispatched method. The RMI marshal stream is simply being used as a pipe to connect the input stream provided to the HTTP gateway by the Web server to an input stream in the Windchill method server.

Supported API: true
Extendable: false

See Also:

Serialized Form

Method Summary

abstract String	getBaseURL() Determine the Base URL of this script.
abstract String	getEncoding() Guess user agent's file encoding from request headers.
abstract Properties	getFormData() Retrieves the FORM data from the incoming input stream as x-www-form-urlencoded data.
abstract Properties	getFormData(String encoding) Retrieves the FORM data from the incoming input stream as x-www-form-urlencoded data.
abstract Hashtable	getFormDataMultivalue() Retrieves the FORM data from the incoming input stream as x-www-form-urlencoded data.
abstract Hashtable	getFormDataMultivalue(String encoding) Retrieves the FORM data from the incoming input stream as x-www-form-urlencoded data.
abstract String	getFullURL() Determine the Full URL of this script.
abstract String	getMultiPartBoundary(String ContentType) Utility routine to parse out the multipart object-body boundary Supported API: true
abstract String	getProperty(String key) Public getter method for access to CGI data.
abstract String	getProperty(String key, String default_value) Public getter method for access to CGI data.
abstract Enumeration	getPropertyKeys() Public getter method for access to CGI data keys.
abstract String	getQueryString() Gets the URLs query string in decoded format.
abstract String	getQueryString(String encoding) Gets the URLs query string in decoded format.
abstract boolean	isGetRequest() Determine if the REQUEST_METHOD used to send the data from the browser was the GET method.
abstract boolean	isPostRequest() Determine if the REQUEST_METHOD used to send the data from the browser was the POST method.
abstract boolean	isUrlencodedContent() Determine if the CONTENT_TYPE used to send the data from the browser was urlencoded form data.
abstract PrintWriter	newPrintWriter(OutputStream output_stream) Utility routine to construct a buffered PrintWriter from an OutputStream.
abstract void	setFormData(Properties p) Sets the FORM data from a saved session.
abstract void	setProperty(String key, String value) Public setter method for CGI data.
abstract Properties	splitQueryString() Splits the URLs query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens.
static Properties	splitQueryString(String query_string) Splits the given query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens.
static Properties	splitQueryString(String query_string, String encoding) Splits the URLs query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens.
abstract Hashtable	splitQueryStringMultivalue() Splits the URLs query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens.
static Hashtable	splitQueryStringMultivalue(String query_string) Splits the given query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens.
static Hashtable	splitQueryStringMultivalue(String query_string, String encoding) Splits the URLs query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getFormData

public abstract Properties getFormData()

Retrieves the FORM data from the incoming input stream as x-www-form-urlencoded data. If the input stream is null, it will read FORM data from the header query string. All hex escaped characters are decoded, then the sequence of 8-bit values is converted to characters using the character encoding returned by getEncoding.

Supported API: true

Returns:

Properties the form data as name value pairs.

setFormData

public abstract void setFormData(Properties p)

Sets the FORM data from a saved session.

Supported API: true

getFormData

public abstract Properties getFormData(String encoding)

Retrieves the FORM data from the incoming input stream as x-www-form-urlencoded data. If the input stream is null, it will read FORM data from the header query string. All hex escaped characters are decoded, then the sequence of 8-bit values is converted to characters using the given character encoding.

Supported API: true

Returns:

Properties the form data as name value pairs.

getFormDataMultivalue

public abstract Hashtable getFormDataMultivalue()

Retrieves the FORM data from the incoming input stream as x-www-form-urlencoded data. If the input stream is null, it will read FORM data from the header query string. All hex escaped characters are decoded, then the sequence of 8-bit values is converted to characters using the character encoding returned by getEncoding. Multivalue fields are stored in a Vector which can be iterated for the individual values.

Supported API: true

Returns:

Properties the form data as name value pairs.

getFormDataMultivalue

public abstract Hashtable getFormDataMultivalue(String encoding)

Retrieves the FORM data from the incoming input stream as x-www-form-urlencoded data. If the input stream is null, it will read FORM data from the header query string. All hex escaped characters are decoded, then the sequence of 8-bit values is converted to characters using the given character encoding. Multivalue fields are stored in a Vector which can be iterated for the individual values.

Supported API: true

Returns:

Properties the form data as name value pairs.

getQueryString

public abstract String getQueryString()

Gets the URLs query string in decoded format. All hex escaped characters are decoded. The sequence of 8-bit values is then converted to characters using UTF8 encoding.

Supported API: true

Returns:

String the decoded query string.

getQueryString

public abstract String getQueryString(String encoding)

Gets the URLs query string in decoded format. All hex escaped characters are decoded. The sequence of 8-bit values is then converted to characters using the given character encoding.

Supported API: true

Returns:

String the decoded query string.

splitQueryString

public abstract Properties splitQueryString()

Splits the URLs query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens. The returned properties are URL decoded and then converted to characters using UTF8 encoding.

Supported API: true

Returns:

Properties the query string info as name value pairs.

splitQueryStringMultivalue

public abstract Hashtable splitQueryStringMultivalue()

Splits the URLs query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens. The returned properties are URL decoded and then converted to characters using UTF8 encoding.

Supported API: true

Returns:

Properties the query string info as name value pairs.

splitQueryString

public static Properties splitQueryString(String query_string)

Splits the given query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens. The string should not yet be URL decoded, since some of the names or values might themselves contain the ampersand and equal characters. The returned properties are URL decoded and then converted to characters using UTF8 encoding.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

query_string - the query string.

Returns:

Properties the query string info as name value pairs.

splitQueryStringMultivalue

public static Hashtable splitQueryStringMultivalue(String query_string)

Splits the given query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens. The string should not yet be URL decoded, since some of the names or values might themselves contain the ampersand and equal characters. The returned properties are URL decoded and then converted to characters using UTF8 encoding.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

query_string - the query string.

Returns:

Properties the query string info as name value pairs.

splitQueryString

public static Properties splitQueryString(String query_string,
                                          String encoding)

Splits the URLs query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens. The string should not yet be URL decoded, since some of the names or values might themselves contain the ampersand and equal characters. The returned properties are URL decoded and then converted to characters using the given encoding. Non-string values (ie Multivalue parameters are stored in vector) are converted to a toString() format.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

query_string - the query string.

encoding - the character encoding name

Returns:

Properties the query string info as name value pairs.

splitQueryStringMultivalue

public static Hashtable splitQueryStringMultivalue(String query_string,
                                                   String encoding)

Splits the URLs query string into name value pairs based on the ampersand and equal character tokens. The string should not yet be URL decoded, since some of the names or values might themselves contain the ampersand and equal characters. The returned properties are URL decoded and then converted to characters using the given encoding. Multivalue parameters are stored in a vector which can be iterated for the individual values.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

query_string - the query string.

encoding - the character encoding name

Returns:

Hashtable the query string info as name value pairs.

isGetRequest

public abstract boolean isGetRequest()

Determine if the REQUEST_METHOD used to send the data from the browser was the GET method.

Supported API: true

Returns:

true, if the REQUEST_METHOD was GET. false, otherwise.

isPostRequest

public abstract boolean isPostRequest()

Determine if the REQUEST_METHOD used to send the data from the browser was the POST method.

Supported API: true

Returns:

true, if the REQUEST_METHOD was POST. false, otherwise.

isUrlencodedContent

public abstract boolean isUrlencodedContent()

Determine if the CONTENT_TYPE used to send the data from the browser was urlencoded form data.

Supported API: true

Returns:

true, if the CONTENT_TYPE was urlencoded form data. false, otherwise.

getBaseURL

public abstract String getBaseURL()

Determine the Base URL of this script. (Does not include the QUERY_STRING (if any) or PATH_INFO (if any).

Supported API: true

Returns:

The Base URL of this script as a String.

getFullURL

public abstract String getFullURL()

Determine the Full URL of this script. (Includes the QUERY_STRING (if any) or PATH_INFO (if any).

Supported API: true

Returns:

The Full URL of this script as a String.

getProperty

public abstract String getProperty(String key)

Public getter method for access to CGI data.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

String - the key of interest

Returns:

String the value

getPropertyKeys

public abstract Enumeration getPropertyKeys()

Public getter method for access to CGI data keys.

Supported API: true

Returns:

Enumeration of the keys

getProperty

public abstract String getProperty(String key,
                                   String default_value)

Public getter method for access to CGI data. If not set, default value is returned.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

String - the key of interest

String - the default value to return

Returns:

String the value

setProperty

public abstract void setProperty(String key,
                                 String value)

Public setter method for CGI data.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

String - the key of interest

String - the value

getEncoding

public abstract String getEncoding()

Guess user agent's file encoding from request headers. If Accept-Charset is specified, use the first value and apply a mapping of IANA names to Java encoding names. Mapping can be controlled at runtime with properties of the form wt.httpgw.encoding.xxx=yyy where xxx is the lower case IANA encoding name and yyy is the Java encoding name. If no Accept-Charset header is present, use template encoding rules to guess.

Supported API: true

Returns:

String the encoding name

newPrintWriter

public abstract PrintWriter newPrintWriter(OutputStream output_stream)

Utility routine to construct a buffered PrintWriter from an OutputStream.

Supported API: true

Parameters:

output_stream - OutputStream to be wrapped

Returns:

A buffered PrintWriter constructed around the given OutPutStream.

getMultiPartBoundary

public abstract String getMultiPartBoundary(String ContentType)

Utility routine to parse out the multipart object-body boundary

Supported API: true

Parameters:

ContentType - String containing the content-type and boundary, separated by a semi-colon

Returns:

A String containing the object-body boundary, not to exceed 70 characters per RFC1341