com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.cache

Class CacheHeaderPostprocessor

java.lang.Object

com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.cache.CacheHeaderPostprocessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.restexpress.pipeline.Postprocessor

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

For GET and HEAD requests, adds caching control headers. May be used in conjunction with DateHeaderPostprocessor to add Date header for GET and HEAD requests.

If the route has a Parameters.Cache.MAX_AGE parameter, whose value is the max-age in seconds then the following are added: Cache-Control: max-age=
Expires: now + max-age

If the route has a Flags.Cache.NO_CACHE flag, then the following headers are set on the response: Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache

The MAX_AGE parameter takes precidence, in that, if present, the NO_CACHE flag is ignored.

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

Since:

Oct 3, 2011

Author:

toddf

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CacheHeaderPostprocessor()

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

CacheHeaderPostprocessor

public CacheHeaderPostprocessor()

Method Detail

process

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

Specified by:

process in interface org.restexpress.pipeline.Postprocessor