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: 480424 $

Author:

Remy Maucherat, B.C. Holmes, Jeff Dever

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class HttpMethodBase

effectiveVersion, statusLine

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DeleteMethod()	No-arg constructor.
DeleteMethod(String uri)	Constructor specifying a URI.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getName()	Returns "DELETE".

Methods inherited from class 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 Object

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

Constructor Details

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 Details

getName

public String getName()

Returns "DELETE".

Specified by:

getName in interface HttpMethod

Specified by:

getName in class HttpMethodBase

Returns:

"DELETE"

Since:

2.0