RestMethod.java

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/* $Id$ */
package com.linkedin.r2.message.rest;

/**
 * Old-style enum to list commonly used REST methods.<p/>
 *
 * We don't use a {@link Enum}, which is in most cases more convenient, because we preserve any
 * method we receive - even when we don't know how to map it to a symbolic name.
 *
 * @author Chris Pettitt
 * @version $Revision$
 */
public class RestMethod
{
  public static final String DELETE = "DELETE";
  public static final String GET = "GET";
  public static final String POST = "POST";
  public static final String PUT = "PUT";
  public static final String OPTIONS = "OPTIONS";

  private RestMethod() {}
}