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package io.milton.http.entity;
import io.milton.http.Response;
/**
* Represents a means of writing entities to the HTTP response. For most
* containers this is trivial, simply write to the output stream on the Responsee
*
* However, some containers have an architecture where the content transmission can
* be deferred, and this abstraction exists to support that.
*
* For example, Restlet uses an API with deferred content transmission. But also
* SEDA (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/seda/) servers generally will want
* to use a seperate thread pool for generating content from that which processes
* request headers etc
*
* @author brad
*/
public interface EntityTransport {
/**
* Transmit the response to the client
*
* @param response
* @throws Exception
*/
public void sendResponseEntity(Response response) throws Exception;
/**
* Called after sending
*
* @param response
*/
public void closeResponse(Response response);
}