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      1 /*
      2  * $HeadURL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/module-main/src/main/java/org/apache/http/HttpConnection.java $
      3  * $Revision: 548031 $
      4  * $Date: 2007-06-17 04:28:38 -0700 (Sun, 17 Jun 2007) $
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     31 
     32 package org.apache.http;
     33 
     34 import java.io.IOException;
     35 
     36 /**
     37  * A generic HTTP connection, useful on client and server side.
     38  *
     39  * @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
     40  *
     41  * @version $Revision: 548031 $
     42  *
     43  * @since 4.0
     44  *
     45  * @deprecated Please use {@link java.net.URL#openConnection} instead.
     46  *     Please visit <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html">this webpage</a>
     47  *     for further details.
     48  */
     49 @Deprecated
     50 public interface HttpConnection {
     51 
     52     /**
     53      * Closes this connection gracefully.
     54      * This method will attempt to  flush the transmitter's
     55      * internal buffer prior to closing the underlying socket.
     56      * This method MUST NOT be called from a different thread to force
     57      * shutdown of the connection. Use {@link #shutdown shutdown} instead.
     58      */
     59     public void close() throws IOException;
     60 
     61     /**
     62      * Checks if this connection is open.
     63      * @return true if it is open, false if it is closed.
     64      */
     65     public boolean isOpen();
     66 
     67     /**
     68      * Checks whether this connection has gone down.
     69      * Network connections may get closed during some time of inactivity
     70      * for several reasons. The next time a read is attempted on such a
     71      * connection it will throw an IOException.
     72      * This method tries to alleviate this inconvenience by trying to
     73      * find out if a connection is still usable. Implementations may do
     74      * that by attempting a read with a very small timeout. Thus this
     75      * method may block for a small amount of time before returning a result.
     76      * It is therefore an <i>expensive</i> operation.
     77      *
     78      * @return  <code>true</code> if attempts to use this connection are
     79      *          likely to succeed, or <code>false</code> if they are likely
     80      *          to fail and this connection should be closed
     81      */
     82     public boolean isStale();
     83 
     84     /**
     85      * Sets the socket timeout value.
     86      *
     87      * @param timeout timeout value in milliseconds
     88      */
     89     void setSocketTimeout(int timeout);
     90 
     91     /**
     92      * Returns the socket timeout value.
     93      *
     94      * @return positive value in milliseconds if a timeout is set,
     95      * <code>0</code> if timeout is disabled or <code>-1</code> if
     96      * timeout is undefined.
     97      */
     98     int getSocketTimeout();
     99 
    100     /**
    101      * Force-closes this connection.
    102      * This is the only method of a connection which may be called
    103      * from a different thread to terminate the connection.
    104      * This method will not attempt to flush the transmitter's
    105      * internal buffer prior to closing the underlying socket.
    106      */
    107     public void shutdown() throws IOException;
    108 
    109     /**
    110      * Returns a collection of connection metrcis
    111      * @return HttpConnectionMetrics
    112      */
    113     HttpConnectionMetrics getMetrics();
    114 
    115 }
    116