com.sun.jersey.spi.container

Interface ContainerResponseWriter

public interface ContainerResponseWriter

Containers implement this interface and provide an instance to the WebApplication or ContainerResponse.

Author:

Paul.Sandoz@Sun.Com

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	finish() Finish writing the response.
OutputStream	writeStatusAndHeaders(long contentLength, ContainerResponse response) Write the status and headers of the response and return an output stream for the web application to write the entity of the response.

Method Detail

writeStatusAndHeaders

OutputStream writeStatusAndHeaders(long contentLength,
                                   ContainerResponse response)
                            throws IOException

Write the status and headers of the response and return an output stream for the web application to write the entity of the response.

Parameters:

contentLength - >=0 if the content length in bytes of the entity to be written is known, otherwise -1. Containers may use this value to determine whether the "Content-Length" header can be set or utilize chunked transfer encoding.

response - the container response. The status and headers are obtained from the response.

Returns:

the output stream to write the entity (if any).

Throws:

IOException - if an error occured when writing out the status and headers or obtaining the output stream.

finish

void finish()
     throws IOException

Finish writing the response. This enables the container response writer to clean up any state or flush any streams.

Throws:

IOException