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package org.apache.http.client.methods;

import java.net.URI;

HTTP GET method.

The HTTP GET method is defined in section 9.3 of
RFC2616:


The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an
entity) is identified by the Request-URI. If the Request-URI refers
to a data-producing process, it is the produced data which shall be
returned as the entity in the response and not the source text of the
process, unless that text happens to be the output of the process.

Since:
4.0/**
 * HTTP GET method.
 * <p>
 * The HTTP GET method is defined in section 9.3 of
 * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC2616</a>:
 * </p>
 * <blockquote>
 * The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an
 * entity) is identified by the Request-URI. If the Request-URI refers
 * to a data-producing process, it is the produced data which shall be
 * returned as the entity in the response and not the source text of the
 * process, unless that text happens to be the output of the process.
 * </blockquote>
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
public class HttpGet extends HttpRequestBase {

    public final static String METHOD_NAME = "GET";

    public HttpGet() {
        super();
    }

    public HttpGet(final URI uri) {
        super();
        setURI(uri);
    }

    
Throws:
IllegalArgumentException – if the uri is invalid./**
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the uri is invalid.
     */
    public HttpGet(final String uri) {
        super();
        setURI(URI.create(uri));
    }

    @Override
    public String getMethod() {
        return METHOD_NAME;
    }

}