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+/*
+ * ====================================================================
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ * ====================================================================
+ *
+ * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
+ * individuals on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation.  For more
+ * information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see
+ * <http://www.apache.org/>.
+ *
+ */
+
+package ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * A generic HTTP connection, useful on client and server side.
+ *
+ * @since 4.0
+ */
+public interface HttpConnection {
+
+    /**
+     * Closes this connection gracefully.
+     * This method will attempt to flush the internal output
+     * buffer prior to closing the underlying socket.
+     * This method MUST NOT be called from a different thread to force
+     * shutdown of the connection. Use {@link #shutdown shutdown} instead.
+     */
+    public void close() throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * Checks if this connection is open.
+     * @return true if it is open, false if it is closed.
+     */
+    public boolean isOpen();
+
+    /**
+     * Checks whether this connection has gone down.
+     * Network connections may get closed during some time of inactivity
+     * for several reasons. The next time a read is attempted on such a
+     * connection it will throw an IOException.
+     * This method tries to alleviate this inconvenience by trying to
+     * find out if a connection is still usable. Implementations may do
+     * that by attempting a read with a very small timeout. Thus this
+     * method may block for a small amount of time before returning a result.
+     * It is therefore an <i>expensive</i> operation.
+     *
+     * @return  <code>true</code> if attempts to use this connection are
+     *          likely to succeed, or <code>false</code> if they are likely
+     *          to fail and this connection should be closed
+     */
+    public boolean isStale();
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the socket timeout value.
+     *
+     * @param timeout timeout value in milliseconds
+     */
+    void setSocketTimeout(int timeout);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the socket timeout value.
+     *
+     * @return positive value in milliseconds if a timeout is set,
+     * <code>0</code> if timeout is disabled or <code>-1</code> if
+     * timeout is undefined.
+     */
+    int getSocketTimeout();
+
+    /**
+     * Force-closes this connection.
+     * This is the only method of a connection which may be called
+     * from a different thread to terminate the connection.
+     * This method will not attempt to flush the transmitter's
+     * internal buffer prior to closing the underlying socket.
+     */
+    public void shutdown() throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a collection of connection metrics.
+     *
+     * @return HttpConnectionMetrics
+     */
+    HttpConnectionMetrics getMetrics();
+
+}