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027
028package org.apache.http.client.methods;
029
030import java.net.URI;
031
032/**
033 * HTTP GET method.
034 * <p>
035 * The HTTP GET method is defined in section 9.3 of
036 * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC2616</a>:
037 * </p>
038 * <blockquote>
039 * The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an
040 * entity) is identified by the Request-URI. If the Request-URI refers
041 * to a data-producing process, it is the produced data which shall be
042 * returned as the entity in the response and not the source text of the
043 * process, unless that text happens to be the output of the process.
044 * </blockquote>
045 *
046 * @since 4.0
047 */
048public class HttpGet extends HttpRequestBase {
049
050    public final static String METHOD_NAME = "GET";
051
052    public HttpGet() {
053        super();
054    }
055
056    public HttpGet(final URI uri) {
057        super();
058        setURI(uri);
059    }
060
061    /**
062     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the uri is invalid.
063     */
064    public HttpGet(final String uri) {
065        super();
066        setURI(URI.create(uri));
067    }
068
069    @Override
070    public String getMethod() {
071        return METHOD_NAME;
072    }
073
074}