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/**
* Provides support for client-side communication with HTTP-based
* RESTful Web services.
* <p>
* The client API is high-level API that reuses many aspects of the JAX-RS
* API. It is designed to be quick, easy to use and is especially useful
* and productive when developing tests for Web services.
* <p>
* The client API can be used as follows to make simple GET and POST requests
* to a Web resource:
* <blockquote><pre>
* Client c = Client.create();
* WebResource r = c.resource("http://host/base");
* String s = r.get(String.class);
* s = r.post(String.class, s);
* </pre></blockquote>
* <p>
* A key concept of REST is the uniform interface and this is encapsulated in
* the {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource} class, which implements
* {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.UniformInterface}.
* A request is built up and when the corresponding HTTP method on the
* {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.UniformInterface} is invoked the request
* is sent to the Web resource and the returned response is processed. This enables
* efficient production of requests as follows:
* <blockquote><pre>
* WebResource r = ...
* String s = r.accept("application/xml").get(String.class);
* s = r.accept("application/xml").type("application/xml").post(String.class, s);
* </pre></blockquote>
* In the above example a GET request occurs stating that the
* "application/xml" is acceptable. After that a POST request occurs stating
* the same acceptable media type and that the content type of the request entity is
* "application/xml".
* <p>
* The Java types that may be used for request and response entities are not
* restricted to <code>String</code>. The client API reuses the same infrastrucure
* as JAX-RS server-side. Thus the same types that can be used on the server-side
* can also be used on the client-side, such as JAXB-based types. Further more
* the supported Java types can be extended by implementing
* {@link javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyReader} and
* {@link javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyWriter}. For registration of such support
* for new Java types see
* {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.config.ClientConfig}.
* <p>
* A type of {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse} declared
* for the response entity may be used to obtain the status, headers and
* response entity.
* <p>
* If any type, other than {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse},
* is declared and the response status is greater than or equal to 300 then a
* {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.UniformInterfaceException} exception
* will be thrown, from which the
* {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse} instance can be
* accessed.
* <p>
* In the following cases it is necessary to close the response, when response
* processing has completed, to ensure that underlying resources are
* correctly released.
* <p>
* If a response entity is declared of the type
* {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse}
* or of a type that is assignable to {@link java.io.Closeable}
* (such as {@link java.io.InputStream}) then the response must be either:
* 1) closed by invoking the method
* {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse#close() } or
* {@link java.io.Closeable#close}; or 2) all bytes of response entity must be
* read.
* <p>
* If a {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.UniformInterfaceException} is
* thrown then by default the response entity is automatically buffered and
* the underlying resources are correctly released. See the following property
* for more details:
* {@link com.sun.jersey.api.client.config.ClientConfig#PROPERTY_BUFFER_RESPONSE_ENTITY_ON_EXCEPTION}.
*
*/
package com.sun.jersey.api.client;