org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods
Class DeleteMethod

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase
      org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.DeleteMethod

All Implemented Interfaces:

HttpMethod

public class DeleteMethod
extends HttpMethodBase

Implements the HTTP DELETE method.

The HTTP DELETE method is defined in section 9.7 of RFC2616:

The DELETE method requests that the origin server delete the resource identified by the Request-URI. This method MAY be overridden by human intervention (or other means) on the origin server.

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Remy Maucherat, B.C. Holmes, Jeff Dever

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase

effectiveVersion, statusLine

Constructor Summary

DeleteMethod()
No-arg constructor.

DeleteMethod(String uri)
Constructor specifying a URI.

Method Summary

String

getName() Returns "DELETE".

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase

abort, addCookieRequestHeader, addHostRequestHeader, addProxyConnectionHeader, addRequestHeader, addRequestHeader, addRequestHeaders, addResponseFooter, addUserAgentRequestHeader, checkNotUsed, checkUsed, execute, generateRequestLine, getAuthenticationRealm, getContentCharSet, getDoAuthentication, getEffectiveVersion, getFollowRedirects, getHostAuthState, getHostConfiguration, getMethodRetryHandler, getParams, getPath, getProxyAuthenticationRealm, getProxyAuthState, getQueryString, getRecoverableExceptionCount, getRequestCharSet, getRequestHeader, getRequestHeaderGroup, getRequestHeaders, getRequestHeaders, getResponseBody, getResponseBody, getResponseBodyAsStream, getResponseBodyAsString, getResponseBodyAsString, getResponseCharSet, getResponseContentLength, getResponseFooter, getResponseFooters, getResponseHeader, getResponseHeaderGroup, getResponseHeaders, getResponseHeaders, getResponseStream, getResponseTrailerHeaderGroup, getStatusCode, getStatusLine, getStatusText, getURI, hasBeenUsed, isAborted, isConnectionCloseForced, isHttp11, isRequestSent, isStrictMode, processCookieHeaders, processResponseBody, processResponseHeaders, processStatusLine, readResponse, readResponseBody, readResponseHeaders, readStatusLine, recycle, releaseConnection, removeRequestHeader, removeRequestHeader, responseBodyConsumed, setConnectionCloseForced, setDoAuthentication, setFollowRedirects, setHostConfiguration, setHttp11, setMethodRetryHandler, setParams, setPath, setQueryString, setQueryString, setRequestHeader, setRequestHeader, setResponseStream, setStrictMode, setURI, shouldCloseConnection, validate, writeRequest, writeRequestBody, writeRequestHeaders, writeRequestLine

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DeleteMethod

public DeleteMethod()

No-arg constructor.

Since:

1.0

DeleteMethod

public DeleteMethod(String uri)

Constructor specifying a URI.

Parameters:

uri - either an absolute or relative URI

Since:

1.0

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

Returns "DELETE".

Specified by:

getName in interface HttpMethod

Specified by:

getName in class HttpMethodBase

Returns:

"DELETE"

Since:

2.0