HttpPost.java revision 069490a5ca2fd1988d29daf45d892f47ad665115 
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31
32package org.apache.http.client.methods;
33
34import java.net.URI;
35
36/**
37 * HTTP POST method.
38 * <p>
39 * The HTTP POST method is defined in section 9.5 of
40 * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC2616</a>:
41 * <blockquote>
42 * The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity
43 * enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by
44 * the Request-URI in the Request-Line. POST is designed to allow a uniform
45 * method to cover the following functions:
46 * <ul>
47 *   <li>Annotation of existing resources</li>
48 *   <li>Posting a message to a bulletin board, newsgroup, mailing list, or
49 *     similar group of articles</li>
50 *   <li>Providing a block of data, such as the result of submitting a form,
51 *     to a data-handling process</li>
52 *   <li>Extending a database through an append operation</li>
53 * </ul>
54 * </blockquote>
55 * </p>
56 *
57 * @version $Revision: 664505 $
58 *
59 * @since 4.0
60 */
61public class HttpPost extends HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase {
62
63    public final static String METHOD_NAME = "POST";
64
65    public HttpPost() {
66        super();
67    }
68
69    public HttpPost(final URI uri) {
70        super();
71        setURI(uri);
72    }
73
74    /**
75     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the uri is invalid.
76     */
77    public HttpPost(final String uri) {
78        super();
79        setURI(URI.create(uri));
80    }
81
82    @Override
83    public String getMethod() {
84        return METHOD_NAME;
85    }
86
87}
88