com.HTTPServiceRequest methods

Methods of the com.HTTPServiceRequest class.

Table 1. Object methods: Request URLs
Name	Description
`getURL() RETURNS STRING`	Returns the URL of the HTTP service request. The URL may consists of a host name, a port number, a path, and a query.
`getURLHost() RETURNS STRING`	Returns the host name contained in the URL of an HTTP service request.
`getURLPath() RETURNS STRING`	Returns the path contained in the URL of an HTTP service request.
`getURLPort() RETURNS INTEGER`	Returns the port number contained in the URL of an HTTP service request.
`getURLQuery( query RECORD)`	Takes a dynamic array of RECORD of two strings and fills that array with the decoded query string of an HTTP service request.

Table 2. Object methods: Request headers
Name	Description
`getRequestHeader( name STRING ) RETURNS STRING`	Returns the value of an HTTP header.
`getRequestHeaderCount() RETURNS INTEGER`	Returns the number of request headers.
`getRequestHeaderName( ind INTEGER ) RETURNS STRING`	Returns a request header name by position.
`getRequestHeaderValue( ind INTEGER ) RETURNS STRING`	Returns a request header value by position.
`getRequestVersion() RETURNS STRING`	Returns the HTTP version of the service request.

Table 3. Object methods: Request body
Name	Description
`beginXmlRequest() RETURNS xml.StaxReader`	Starts an HTTP streaming request.
`endXmlRequest( stax xml.StaxReader )`	Terminates an HTTP streaming request.
`getMethod() RETURNS STRING`	Returns the HTTP method of the service request.
`hasRequestKeepConnection() RETURNS INTEGER`	Returns `TRUE` if the connection remains open after sending a response.
`readDataRequest( b BYTE)`	Returns the body of a request in a `BYTE`.
`readFileRequest( ) RETURNS STRING`	Returns the body of a request in a file.
`readFormEncodedRequest( utf8 INTEGER ) RETURNS STRING`	Returns the string of a GET request with UTF-8 conversion option.
`readTextRequest() RETURNS STRING`	Returns the request body as a plain string.
`readXmlRequest() RETURNS xml.DomDocument`	Returns the request body as an XML document.

Table 4. Object methods: Request multipart
Name	Description
`getRequestMultipartType() RETURNS STRING`	Returns the multipart type of an incoming request.
`getRequestPart( pos INTEGER) RETURNS com.HTTPPart`	Returns the HTTPPart object at the specified index position.
`getRequestPartCount() RETURNS INTEGER`	Returns the number of additional multipart elements.
`getRequestPartFromID( id STRING) RETURNS com.HTTPPart`	Returns the HTTPPart object of the given Content-ID value.

Table 5. Object methods: Response header
Name	Description
`setResponseCharset( charset STRING )`	Defines the HTTP response character set.
`setResponseHeader( name STRING, value STRING )`	Defines a header for the HTTP response.
`setResponseVersion( version STRING )`	Defines the HTTP response version.

Table 6. Object methods: Response body
Name	Description
`beginXmlResponse( code INTEGER, description STRING ) RETURNS xml.StaxWriter`	Starts an HTTP streaming response.
`endXmlResponse( stax xml.StaxWriter )`	Terminates an HTTP streaming response.
`sendResponse( code INTEGER, description STRING )`	Sends an HTTP response without body.
`sendDataResponse( code INTEGER, description STRING, b BYTE )`	Sends an HTTP response with data of a `BYTE` variable.
`sendFileResponse( code INTEGER, description STRING, filename STRING )`	Sends an HTTP response with the data contained in a file.
`sendTextResponse( code INTEGER, description STRING, txt STRING )`	Sends an HTTP response with data from a plain string.
`sendXmlResponse( code INTEGER, desc STRING, doc xml.DomDocument )`	Sends an HTTP response with data from a XML document object.

Table 7. Object methods: Response multipart
Name	Description
`addResponsePart( part com.HTTPPart)`	Adds a new part to the HTTP root part response.
`setResponseMultipartType( type STRING, start STRING, boundary STRING )`	Sets HTTP response in multipart mode of given type.

Table 8. Object methods: Cookie management
Name	Description
`findRequestCookie( name STRING) RETURNS STRING`	Enables the server to retrieve a cookie sent by the client by name.
`setResponseCookies( cookies WSHelper.WSServerCookiesType )`	Allows the server to return cookies to be set on the client application sending the request.