com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.cache

Class DateHeaderPostprocessor

java.lang.Object

com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.cache.DateHeaderPostprocessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.restexpress.pipeline.Postprocessor

public class DateHeaderPostprocessor
extends Object
implements org.restexpress.pipeline.Postprocessor

For GET and HEAD requests, adds a Date: header, if not already present. This enables clients to determine age of a representation for caching purposes. is in RFC1123 full date format.

To use: simply add server.addPostprocessor(new DateHeaderPostprocessor()); in your main() method.

Note that HEAD requests are not provided with a Date header via this postprocessor. This is due to the fact that most external caches forward HEAD requests to the origin server as a GET request and cache the result.

Since:

Oct 3, 2011

Author:

toddf

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
DateHeaderPostprocessor()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	process(org.restexpress.Request request, org.restexpress.Response response)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DateHeaderPostprocessor

public DateHeaderPostprocessor()

Method Detail

process

public void process(org.restexpress.Request request,
           org.restexpress.Response response)

Specified by:

process in interface org.restexpress.pipeline.Postprocessor