Package org.refcodes.rest

Interface RestRequestObserver

All Known Subinterfaces:

RestEndpoint, RestEndpointBuilder

All Known Implementing Classes:

RestEndpointBuilderImpl

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface RestRequestObserver

The RestRequestObserver can be coded using the lambda syntax and processes a request for a given locator and for a given HttpMethod. A RestRequestObserver is invoked with a request of type RestRequestEvent and a response being of type HttpServerResponse. The RestRequestEvent describes the context of the request whereas the HttpServerResponse is used by the lambda expression to prepare the response e.g. via HttpServerResponse.setResponse(Object).

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	onRequest(RestRequestEvent aRequest, org.refcodes.net.HttpServerResponse aResponse)	The invoker provides a request context being a RestRequestEvent) describing the request and a response being a HttpServerResponse to be processed upon by your lambda's code.

Method Detail

onRequest

void onRequest(RestRequestEvent aRequest,
               org.refcodes.net.HttpServerResponse aResponse)
        throws org.refcodes.net.HttpStatusException

The invoker provides a request context being a RestRequestEvent) describing the request and a response being a HttpServerResponse to be processed upon by your lambda's code. The method works synchronously and waits (blocks the caller's thread) till it finishes execution.

Parameters:

aRequest - The request of type RestRequestEvent describing the request context. Use HttpServerRequest.getRequest(Class) to retrieve the caller's request body or HeaderFieldsAccessor.getHeaderFields() to retrieve the request's cookies and other Header-Fields.

aResponse - The response of type HttpServerResponse do be processed upon by the method's implementation. Use HttpServerResponse.setResponse(Object) to provide a response for the client. Use HeaderFieldsAccessor.getHeaderFields() to set cookies or modify Header-Fields. Throw one of the HttpStatusException sub-types to signal an according erroneous HTTP state.

Throws:

org.refcodes.net.HttpStatusException - to be thrown in case something went wrong.