Package net.sf.fikin.ant.httpclientanttask

Tasks for HTTP-operations based on Jakrata's HttpClient library

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Description

Class Summary

AntAuthScope	Authentication scope
AntCredentials	Wraps up HttpClient credentials into an Ant tag
AntDeleteMethod	Perform HTTP DELETE method
AntGetMethod	Perform HTTP GET method
AntHeadMethod	Perform HTTP HEAD method
AntMultipartPostMethod	Perform HTTP POST method (multu-part message)
AntOptionsMethod	Perform HTTP OPTIONS method
AntPostMethod	Perform HTTP POST method
AntProxy	Wraps up HttpClient proxy into Ant tag
AntPutMethod	Perform HTTP PUT method
AntTraceMethod	Perform HTTP TRACE method
BaseAntMethod	Base class of methods hierarchy
BaseResponseAntMethod	provides basic methods for http-responce logging on top of base response moethod

Package net.sf.fikin.ant.httpclientanttask Description

Tasks for HTTP-operations based on Jakrata's HttpClient library

Package Specification

Dependencies to some of thrird party libraries:

• Commons HttpClient 3.0+

Related Documentation

For general understanding of this library and taks please do reffer to:

• HttpClient documentation about suported features, limitations and predefined constants
• test/ant/httpclienttask sources for examples how tasks are being used

All tasks here are backed by single HttpClient object instance. This allows for creation of several HTTP-activities correlating to each other. Typical example is to issue a GET to a login page, then to POST with user credentials and then to perform some other GET/POST/MPOS operations.

This has the disadvantage that one cannot use two differnet credentials with one and same site and one and same time. In order to initiate a new HttpClient instance, one can pass shutdown="true" attribute to any of the provided tasks.

Examples:

    <echo>Login ...</echo>
    <httppost url="http://localhost/login.do" loglevel="none"
    >
        <post name="username"     value="me"  />
        <post name="password"     value="superman" />
    </httppost>

    <echo>Importing some file ...</echo>
    <httpmpost url="http://localhost/import.do" loglevel="content"
    >
        <postfile   name="importFile"       file="someFile.txt" />
        <poststring name="import"           value="Import" />
    </httpmpost>
    
    <echo>Getting import feedback ...</echo>
    <httpget
        url="http://localhost/importer/get_info.do"
        loglevel="all"  logFile="somefile.log"
    >
    </httpget>