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From: Adrian Sutton <Adrian.Sutton@Ephox.com>
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Hi Nitin,
There are a few reasons to use an array over a list (particularly a custom
list type):

* Array's enforce type.  You can only pass in NameValuePair's
* Array's don't require the creation of another class which just increases
the size of HttpClient.
* Array is a lowest common denominator so people who choose to use Vectors,
Arrays or Lists can easily use the method (use the toArray() method for
Lists and Vectors).
* Array's are available in JRE 1.1 which we actually have someone using,
though generally HttpClient requires 1.2.
* Changing to a list would require an interface change with no real reason
for the change and that tends to annoy users. :)

Plus, you can create an array on one line but you can't do the same for a
list.

Regards,
Adrian Sutton, Software Engineer
Ephox Corporation
www.ephox.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: Verma, Nitin (GECP, OTHER, 529706) [mailto:NITIN.VERMA@APPL.GE.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, 3 June 2003 10:32 PM
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Subject: RE: [HttpClient] What method should be used to add params to a po
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Wouldn't it be better to have 
method.setRequestBody(NameValuePairList list) ?

where NameValuePairList implements java.util.List (or extends a List Type)
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From: Verma, Nitin (GECP, OTHER, 529706) 
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Thanx it works :-) 
method.setRequestBody(new NameValuePair [] { new NameValuePair( "", "" ) });

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From: Norrod, Dennis G Mr Veridian-MRJ 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:21 PM 
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Hi Nitin, 
Docs say setRequestBody(NameValuePair[]). I use MultipartPostMethod
exclusively (so far), which has not (yet?) deprecated the addParameter
methods. HTH.
Later. 
Dennis  
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Anyone any clue? 
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From: Verma, Nitin (GECP, OTHER, 529706) 
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Subject: [HttpClient] What method should be used to add params to a post 
met hods 




        PostMethod method = new PostMethod(url); 
method.setParameter( "","" ); 
method.addParameter(new NameValuePair("", "")); 
method.addParameter("", ""); 
  
  
are deprecated as for my dependency 
  
    <dependency> 
        <id>commons-httpclient</id> 
        <version>2.0-alpha3</version> 
        <url>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/</url> 
    </dependency> 
  
What method should be used? 
 <<ATT25071.txt>>