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* Copyright (c) 2010-2014 SAP AG and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* SAP AG - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.skalli.services.destination;
import java.net.URL;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
/**
* Service providing preconfigured {@link HttpClient HTTP clients} for various destinations.
*/
public interface DestinationService {
/**
* Returns a preconfigured HTTP client (including credentials and proxy settings)
* for the given URL.
*
* @param url the URL for which to return a client.
* @return an HTTP client for the given url.
*
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the protocol of the URL is not supported.
*/
public HttpClient getClient(URL url);
/**
* Checks of the protocol of the given URL is supported. Supported protocols are
* {@link #HTTP http://} and {@link #HTTPS https://}.
*
* @param url the url to check.
* @return <code>true</code>, if the protocol specifier of the url is
* either <tt>http://</tt> or <tt>https://</tt>, respectively.
*/
public boolean isSupportedProtocol(URL url);
}