1/*
2 * $HeadURL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/module-client/src/main/java/org/apache/http/client/ResponseHandler.java $
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4 * $Date: 2008-07-16 04:25:47 -0700 (Wed, 16 Jul 2008) $
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30
31package org.apache.http.client;
32
33import java.io.IOException;
34
35import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
36
37/**
38 * Handler that encapsulates the process of generating a response object
39 * from a {@link HttpResponse}.
40 *
41 * @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
42 *
43 * @since 4.0
44 *
45 * @deprecated Please use {@link java.net.URL#openConnection} instead.
46 *     Please visit <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html">this webpage</a>
47 *     for further details.
48 */
49@Deprecated
50public interface ResponseHandler<T> {
51
52    /**
53     * Processes an {@link HttpResponse} and returns some value
54     * corresponding to that response.
55     *
56     * @param response The response to process
57     * @return A value determined by the response
58     *
59     * @throws ClientProtocolException in case of an http protocol error
60     * @throws IOException in case of a problem or the connection was aborted
61     */
62    T handleResponse(HttpResponse response) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException;
63
64}
65