ej.hoka.http.support

Class QualityArgument

java.lang.Object

ej.hoka.http.support.CharacterSeparatedList

ej.hoka.http.support.ParameterizedArgument

ej.hoka.http.support.QualityArgument

public class QualityArgument
extends ParameterizedArgument

Class for handling HTTP "Accept" header quality argument.

The class parses the quality argument in the following form:

Accept: text/html; q=1.0, text/*; q=0.8, image/gif; q=0.6, image/jpeg; q=0.6, image/*; q=0.5

The value of the q is a short floating point number (range: 0.0-1.0) denoting the relative "acceptance" value of a content-type. If omitted the default value is 1.0.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected float	quality The parsed quality argument in the "Accept" header.

Fields inherited from class ej.hoka.http.support.ParameterizedArgument

argument, PARAMETER_SEP, TOKEN_SEP

Fields inherited from class ej.hoka.http.support.CharacterSeparatedList

CR, currentString, HT, LF, separator, SP

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
QualityArgument()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
float	getQuality() Returns the quality value of this argument.
void	initializeNbParameters(int nbTokens) Sets the quality value to 1 if nbTokens equals to 0.
void	newParameter(int index, int startKey, int stopKey, int startValue, int stopValue) Sets the quality value.

Methods inherited from class ej.hoka.http.support.ParameterizedArgument

generate, getArgument, initializeNbTokens, newToken

Methods inherited from class ej.hoka.http.support.CharacterSeparatedList

endParse, parse, parse

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

quality

protected float quality

The parsed quality argument in the "Accept" header.

Constructor Detail

QualityArgument

public QualityArgument()

Method Detail

getQuality

public float getQuality()

Returns the quality value of this argument.

Returns:

the quality

initializeNbParameters

public void initializeNbParameters(int nbTokens)

Sets the quality value to 1 if nbTokens equals to 0.

Specified by:

initializeNbParameters in class ParameterizedArgument

Parameters:

nbTokens - Sets the quality value to 1 if nbTokens equals to 0

newParameter

public void newParameter(int index,
                         int startKey,
                         int stopKey,
                         int startValue,
                         int stopValue)

Sets the quality value. The value is in the substring within begin index startValue and end index stopValue. When the quality value String cannot be parsed as a floating point number, the value is considered to be 0.

Specified by:

newParameter in class ParameterizedArgument

Parameters:

index - not used

startKey - not used

stopKey - not used

startValue - start index of quality value

stopValue - end index of quality value

See Also:

ContentType.newParameter(int, int, int, int, int), newParameter(int, int, int, int, int)