gecko/mobile/android/base/httpclientandroidlib/message/HeaderValueParser.java

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package ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.message;
import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HeaderElement;
import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.NameValuePair;
import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.ParseException;
import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.util.CharArrayBuffer;
/**
* Interface for parsing header values into elements.
* Instances of this interface are expected to be stateless and thread-safe.
*
* @since 4.0
*/
public interface HeaderValueParser {
/**
* Parses a header value into elements.
* Parse errors are indicated as <code>RuntimeException</code>.
* <p>
* Some HTTP headers (such as the set-cookie header) have values that
* can be decomposed into multiple elements. In order to be processed
* by this parser, such headers must be in the following form:
* </p>
* <pre>
* header = [ element ] *( "," [ element ] )
* element = name [ "=" [ value ] ] *( ";" [ param ] )
* param = name [ "=" [ value ] ]
*
* name = token
* value = ( token | quoted-string )
*
* token = 1*&lt;any char except "=", ",", ";", &lt;"&gt; and
* white space&gt;
* quoted-string = &lt;"&gt; *( text | quoted-char ) &lt;"&gt;
* text = any char except &lt;"&gt;
* quoted-char = "\" char
* </pre>
* <p>
* Any amount of white space is allowed between any part of the
* header, element or param and is ignored. A missing value in any
* element or param will be stored as the empty {@link String};
* if the "=" is also missing <var>null</var> will be stored instead.
* </p>
*
* @param buffer buffer holding the header value to parse
* @param cursor the parser cursor containing the current position and
* the bounds within the buffer for the parsing operation
*
* @return an array holding all elements of the header value
*
* @throws ParseException in case of a parse error
*/
HeaderElement[] parseElements(
CharArrayBuffer buffer,
ParserCursor cursor) throws ParseException;
/**
* Parses a single header element.
* A header element consist of a semicolon-separate list
* of name=value definitions.
*
* @param buffer buffer holding the element to parse
* @param cursor the parser cursor containing the current position and
* the bounds within the buffer for the parsing operation
*
* @return the parsed element
*
* @throws ParseException in case of a parse error
*/
HeaderElement parseHeaderElement(
CharArrayBuffer buffer,
ParserCursor cursor) throws ParseException;
/**
* Parses a list of name-value pairs.
* These lists are used to specify parameters to a header element.
* Parse errors are indicated as <code>ParseException</code>.
*
* @param buffer buffer holding the name-value list to parse
* @param cursor the parser cursor containing the current position and
* the bounds within the buffer for the parsing operation
*
* @return an array holding all items of the name-value list
*
* @throws ParseException in case of a parse error
*/
NameValuePair[] parseParameters(
CharArrayBuffer buffer,
ParserCursor cursor) throws ParseException;
/**
* Parses a name=value specification, where the = and value are optional.
*
* @param buffer the buffer holding the name-value pair to parse
* @param cursor the parser cursor containing the current position and
* the bounds within the buffer for the parsing operation
*
* @return the name-value pair, where the value is <code>null</code>
* if no value is specified
*/
NameValuePair parseNameValuePair(
CharArrayBuffer buffer,
ParserCursor cursor) throws ParseException;
}