com.continuuity.http
Interface URLRewriter

public interface URLRewriter

Re-writes URL of an incoming request before any handlers or their hooks are called. This can be used to map an incoming URL to an URL that a handler understands. The re-writer overwrites the incoming URL with the new value. The re-writer can also send response to the clients, eg. redirect header, and then stop further request processing.

Method Summary

boolean

rewrite(org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest request, HttpResponder responder) Implement this to rewrite URL of an incoming request.

Method Detail

rewrite

boolean rewrite(org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest request,
                HttpResponder responder)

Implement this to rewrite URL of an incoming request. The re-written URL needs to be updated back in request using HttpRequest.setUri(String).

Parameters:

request - Incoming HTTP request.

responder - Used to send response to clients.

Returns:

true if request processing should continue, false otherwise.