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4 * $Date: 2007-07-22 11:19:49 -0700 (Sun, 22 Jul 2007) $
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31package org.apache.http.cookie;
32
33/**
34 * Ths interface represents a cookie attribute handler responsible
35 * for parsing, validating, and matching a specific cookie attribute,
36 * such as path, domain, port, etc.
37 *
38 * Different cookie specifications can provide a specific
39 * implementation for this class based on their cookie handling
40 * rules.
41 *
42 * @author jain.samit@gmail.com (Samit Jain)
43 *
44 * @since 4.0
45 *
46 * @deprecated Please use {@link java.net.URL#openConnection} instead.
47 *     Please visit <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html">this webpage</a>
48 *     for further details.
49 */
50@Deprecated
51public interface CookieAttributeHandler {
52
53  /**
54   * Parse the given cookie attribute value and update the corresponding
55   * {@link org.apache.http.cookie.Cookie} property.
56   *
57   * @param cookie {@link org.apache.http.cookie.Cookie} to be updated
58   * @param value cookie attribute value from the cookie response header
59   */
60  void parse(SetCookie cookie, String value)
61          throws MalformedCookieException;
62
63  /**
64   * Peforms cookie validation for the given attribute value.
65   *
66   * @param cookie {@link org.apache.http.cookie.Cookie} to validate
67   * @param origin the cookie source to validate against
68   * @throws MalformedCookieException if cookie validation fails for this attribute
69   */
70  void validate(Cookie cookie, CookieOrigin origin)
71          throws MalformedCookieException;
72
73  /**
74   * Matches the given value (property of the destination host where request is being
75   * submitted) with the corresponding cookie attribute.
76   *
77   * @param cookie {@link org.apache.http.cookie.Cookie} to match
78   * @param origin the cookie source to match against
79   * @return <tt>true</tt> if the match is successful; <tt>false</tt> otherwise
80   */
81  boolean match(Cookie cookie, CookieOrigin origin);
82
83}
84