Package org.apache.jackrabbit.webdav.header

Class IfHeader

java.lang.Object

org.apache.jackrabbit.webdav.header.IfHeader

All Implemented Interfaces:

Header

public class IfHeader
extends Object
implements Header

The IfHeader class represents the state lists defined through the HTTP If header, which is specified in RFC 2518 as follows :

     If = "If" ":" ( 1*No-tag-list | 1*Tagged-list)
     No-tag-list = List
     Tagged-list = Resource 1*List
     Resource = Coded-URL
     List = "(" 1*(["Not"](State-etag | "[" entity-tag "]")) ")"
     State-etag = Coded-URL
     Coded-URL = "<" absoluteURI ">"
 

Reformulating this specification into proper EBNF as specified by N. Wirth we get the following productions, which map to the parse METHODS of this class. Any whitespace is ignored except for white space surrounding and within words which is considered significant.

     If = "If:" ( Tagged | Untagged ).
     Tagged = { "<" Word ">" Untagged } .
     Untagged = { "(" IfList ")" } .
     IfList = { [ "Not" ] ( ("<" Word ">" ) | ( "[" Word "]" ) ) } .
     Word = characters .
 

An If header either contains untagged IfList entries or tagged IfList entries but not a mixture of both. An If header containing tagged entries is said to be of tagged type while an If header containing untagged entries is said to be of untagged type.

An IfList is a list of tokens - words enclosed in < > - and etags - words enclosed in [ ]. An IfList matches a (token, etag) tuple if all entries in the list match. If an entry in the list is prefixed with the word Not (parsed case insensitively) the entry must not match the concrete token or etag.

Example: The ifList (<token> [etag]) only matches if the concret token has the value token and the conrete etag has the value etag. On the other hand, the ifList (Not <notoken>) matches any token which is not notoken (in this case the concrete value of the etag is not taken into consideration).

Author:

Felix Meschberger

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
IfHeader(String[] tokens)	Create a Untagged IfHeader if the given lock tokens.
IfHeader(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req)	Parses the If header and creates and internal representation which is easy to query.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Iterator<String>	getAllNotTokens()
Iterator<String>	getAllTokens()
String	getHeaderName()	Return If
String	getHeaderValue()	Return the String representation of the If header present on the given request or null.
boolean	hasValue()	Returns true if an If header was present in the given request.
boolean	matches(String tag, String token, String etag)	Tries to match the contents of the If header with the given token and etag values with the restriction to only check for the tag.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

IfHeader

public IfHeader(String[] tokens)

Create a Untagged IfHeader if the given lock tokens.

Parameters:

tokens -

IfHeader

public IfHeader(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req)

Parses the If header and creates and internal representation which is easy to query.

Parameters:

req - The request object

Method Detail

getHeaderName

public String getHeaderName()

Return If

Specified by:

getHeaderName in interface Header

Returns:

If

See Also:

DavConstants.HEADER_IF

getHeaderValue

public String getHeaderValue()

Return the String representation of the If header present on the given request or null.

Specified by:

getHeaderValue in interface Header

Returns:

If header value as String or null.

hasValue

public boolean hasValue()

Returns true if an If header was present in the given request. False otherwise.

Returns:

true if an If header was present.

matches

public boolean matches(String tag,
                       String token,
                       String etag)

Tries to match the contents of the If header with the given token and etag values with the restriction to only check for the tag.

If the If header is of untagged type, the untagged IfList is matched against the token and etag given: A match of the token and etag is found if at least one of the IfList entries match the token and etag tuple.

Parameters:

tag - The tag to identify the IfList to match the token and etag against.

token - The token to compare.

etag - The ETag value to compare.

Returns:

If the If header is of untagged type the result is true if any of the IfList entries matches the token and etag values. For tagged type If header the result is true if either no entry for the given tag exists in the If header or if the IfList for the given tag matches the token and etag given.

getAllTokens

public Iterator<String> getAllTokens()

Returns:

an iterator over all tokens present in the if header, that were not denied by a leading NOT statement.

getAllNotTokens

public Iterator<String> getAllNotTokens()

Returns:

an iterator over all NOT tokens present in the if header, that were explicitly denied.