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package com.sun.messaging.ums.readonly;

import java.util.Properties;

/**
 *
 * @author chiaming
 */
public interface ReadOnlyService {

    /**
     * initialize with the servlet init params.
     *
     * @param the servlet init params.
     */
    public void init(Properties initParams);

    /**
     * The request message contains message properties and message body.
     *
     * The message body is the http request message body.
     *
     * The request message properties contains key/value pair of the http request. Each key/value pair of the
     * requestProperties is obtained from the request url query string.
     *
     * The request message properties contains at least the following none empty properties.
     *
     * 1. "service" property. 2. "requestURL" property.
     *
     * The requestURL contains the URL the client used to make the request. The URL contains a protocol, server name, port
     * number, and server path, but it does not include query string parameters.
     *
     * Query string is parsed into key/value pair in the request message properties.
     *
     * @param request the request message.
     * @return The service implementation must construct a proper formatted java string object as the http message body and
     * set it in the request response message.
     */

    public ReadOnlyResponseMessage request(ReadOnlyRequestMessage request);
}
