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* $Date: 2005-04-19 16:25:06 -0400 (Tue, 19 Apr 2005) $
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* ====================================================================
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* Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
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* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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* This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
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package org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods;
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import java.io.IOException;
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import java.io.OutputStream;
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public interface RequestEntity {
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* Tests if {@link #writeRequest(OutputStream)} can be called more than once.
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* @return <tt>true</tt> if the entity can be written to {@link OutputStream} more than once,
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* <tt>false</tt> otherwise.
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boolean isRepeatable();
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* Writes the request entity to the given stream.
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void writeRequest(OutputStream out) throws IOException;
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* Gets the request entity's length. This method should return a non-negative value if the content
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* length is known or a negative value if it is not. In the latter case the
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* {@link org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.EntityEnclosingMethod} will use chunk encoding to
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* transmit the request entity.
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* @return a non-negative value when content length is known or a negative value when content length
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long getContentLength();
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* Gets the entity's content type. This content type will be used as the value for the
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* "Content-Type" header.
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* @return the entity's content type
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* @see org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod#setRequestHeader(String, String)
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String getContentType();