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Subject: RE: doubt on HttpClient design regarding HttpMethod
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:47:32 +0100
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From: "Kalnichevski, Oleg" <oleg.kalnichevski@bearingpoint.com>
To: "Commons HttpClient Project" <commons-httpclient-dev@jakarta.apache.org>

Tarun,

>From what I know of HttpClient's historical background the project =
started as a spin-off of a bigger one. Many design decisions that were =
perfectly OK for a bare-minimum library with a limited scope turned out =
quite constraining once HttpClient started to evolve into a =
comprehensive general-purpose HTTP toolkit. The first generation of =
HttpClient developers is long gone already and we can only guess as to =
why certain things have been designed the way they are today.=20

We are perfectly aware of many shortcomings of the existing design =
(including this one) and are planning to embark on a complete API =
overhaul right after 2.1 release. HttpMethod interface split into =
HttpRequest/HttpResponse pair is the very first item on our to-do list

Regards,

Oleg

-----Original Message-----
From: Elankath, Tarun (Cognizant) [mailto:ETarun@blr.cognizant.com]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:33 AM
To: commons-httpclient-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: doubt on HttpClient design regarding HttpMethod


Hi all,

I am new to HttpClient and was reading through its "Getting started" =
section. What struck me immediately is that HttpMethods are full-fledged =
objects of their own in HttpClient. I think this is a great idea.

However, I don't understand why HttpClient couldn't have something like =
a HttpResponse object that is returned when execute() is called. It just =
seems a bit kludgy to call getResponse() on the HttpMethod object =
itself.

Was there a design reason on why this was done ?

PLUS: I am enjoying this library. Thank you for it!

Regards,
Tarun

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