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package org.apache.http.client.entity;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils;
import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;

An entity composed of a list of url-encoded pairs.
This is typically useful while sending an HTTP POST request.
Since:
4.0/**
 * An entity composed of a list of url-encoded pairs.
 * This is typically useful while sending an HTTP POST request.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
public class UrlEncodedFormEntity extends StringEntity {

    
Constructs a new UrlEncodedFormEntity with the list of parameters in the specified encoding. 
Params:
parameters – list of name/value pairs
charset – encoding the name/value pairs be encoded with
Throws:
UnsupportedEncodingException – if the encoding isn't supported/**
     * Constructs a new {@link UrlEncodedFormEntity} with the list
     * of parameters in the specified encoding.
     *
     * @param parameters list of name/value pairs
     * @param charset encoding the name/value pairs be encoded with
     * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException if the encoding isn't supported
     */
    public UrlEncodedFormEntity (
        final List <? extends NameValuePair> parameters,
        final String charset) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        super(URLEncodedUtils.format(parameters,
                charset != null ? charset : HTTP.DEF_CONTENT_CHARSET.name()),
                ContentType.create(URLEncodedUtils.CONTENT_TYPE, charset));
    }

    
Constructs a new UrlEncodedFormEntity with the list of parameters in the specified encoding. 
Params:
parameters – iterable collection of name/value pairs
charset – encoding the name/value pairs be encoded with
Since:
4.2/**
     * Constructs a new {@link UrlEncodedFormEntity} with the list
     * of parameters in the specified encoding.
     *
     * @param parameters iterable collection of name/value pairs
     * @param charset encoding the name/value pairs be encoded with
     *
     * @since 4.2
     */
    public UrlEncodedFormEntity (
        final Iterable <? extends NameValuePair> parameters,
        final Charset charset) {
        super(URLEncodedUtils.format(parameters,
                charset != null ? charset : HTTP.DEF_CONTENT_CHARSET),
                ContentType.create(URLEncodedUtils.CONTENT_TYPE, charset));
    }

    
Constructs a new UrlEncodedFormEntity with the list of parameters with the default encoding of HTTP.DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET 
Params:
parameters – list of name/value pairs
Throws:
UnsupportedEncodingException – if the default encoding isn't supported/**
     * Constructs a new {@link UrlEncodedFormEntity} with the list
     * of parameters with the default encoding of {@link HTTP#DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET}
     *
     * @param parameters list of name/value pairs
     * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException if the default encoding isn't supported
     */
    public UrlEncodedFormEntity (
        final List <? extends NameValuePair> parameters) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        this(parameters, (Charset) null);
    }

    
Constructs a new UrlEncodedFormEntity with the list of parameters with the default encoding of HTTP.DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET 
Params:
parameters – iterable collection of name/value pairs
Since:
4.2/**
     * Constructs a new {@link UrlEncodedFormEntity} with the list
     * of parameters with the default encoding of {@link HTTP#DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET}
     *
     * @param parameters iterable collection of name/value pairs
     *
     * @since 4.2
     */
    public UrlEncodedFormEntity (
        final Iterable <? extends NameValuePair> parameters) {
        this(parameters, null);
    }

}