Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:22:50 +0100
Correct previous dual key logic pending first delivery installment.
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28 package ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.message;
30 import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HeaderElement;
31 import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.NameValuePair;
32 import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.ParseException;
33 import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.util.CharArrayBuffer;
35 /**
36 * Interface for parsing header values into elements.
37 * Instances of this interface are expected to be stateless and thread-safe.
38 *
39 * @since 4.0
40 */
41 public interface HeaderValueParser {
43 /**
44 * Parses a header value into elements.
45 * Parse errors are indicated as <code>RuntimeException</code>.
46 * <p>
47 * Some HTTP headers (such as the set-cookie header) have values that
48 * can be decomposed into multiple elements. In order to be processed
49 * by this parser, such headers must be in the following form:
50 * </p>
51 * <pre>
52 * header = [ element ] *( "," [ element ] )
53 * element = name [ "=" [ value ] ] *( ";" [ param ] )
54 * param = name [ "=" [ value ] ]
55 *
56 * name = token
57 * value = ( token | quoted-string )
58 *
59 * token = 1*<any char except "=", ",", ";", <"> and
60 * white space>
61 * quoted-string = <"> *( text | quoted-char ) <">
62 * text = any char except <">
63 * quoted-char = "\" char
64 * </pre>
65 * <p>
66 * Any amount of white space is allowed between any part of the
67 * header, element or param and is ignored. A missing value in any
68 * element or param will be stored as the empty {@link String};
69 * if the "=" is also missing <var>null</var> will be stored instead.
70 * </p>
71 *
72 * @param buffer buffer holding the header value to parse
73 * @param cursor the parser cursor containing the current position and
74 * the bounds within the buffer for the parsing operation
75 *
76 * @return an array holding all elements of the header value
77 *
78 * @throws ParseException in case of a parse error
79 */
80 HeaderElement[] parseElements(
81 CharArrayBuffer buffer,
82 ParserCursor cursor) throws ParseException;
84 /**
85 * Parses a single header element.
86 * A header element consist of a semicolon-separate list
87 * of name=value definitions.
88 *
89 * @param buffer buffer holding the element to parse
90 * @param cursor the parser cursor containing the current position and
91 * the bounds within the buffer for the parsing operation
92 *
93 * @return the parsed element
94 *
95 * @throws ParseException in case of a parse error
96 */
97 HeaderElement parseHeaderElement(
98 CharArrayBuffer buffer,
99 ParserCursor cursor) throws ParseException;
101 /**
102 * Parses a list of name-value pairs.
103 * These lists are used to specify parameters to a header element.
104 * Parse errors are indicated as <code>ParseException</code>.
105 *
106 * @param buffer buffer holding the name-value list to parse
107 * @param cursor the parser cursor containing the current position and
108 * the bounds within the buffer for the parsing operation
109 *
110 * @return an array holding all items of the name-value list
111 *
112 * @throws ParseException in case of a parse error
113 */
114 NameValuePair[] parseParameters(
115 CharArrayBuffer buffer,
116 ParserCursor cursor) throws ParseException;
119 /**
120 * Parses a name=value specification, where the = and value are optional.
121 *
122 * @param buffer the buffer holding the name-value pair to parse
123 * @param cursor the parser cursor containing the current position and
124 * the bounds within the buffer for the parsing operation
125 *
126 * @return the name-value pair, where the value is <code>null</code>
127 * if no value is specified
128 */
129 NameValuePair parseNameValuePair(
130 CharArrayBuffer buffer,
131 ParserCursor cursor) throws ParseException;
133 }