KeepAliveStrategy.java

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package org.asynchttpclient.channel;

import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest;
import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponse;

import org.asynchttpclient.Request;

public interface KeepAliveStrategy {

    /**
     * Determines whether the connection should be kept alive after this HTTP message exchange.
     * 
     * @param ahcRequest the Request, as built by AHC
     * @param nettyRequest the HTTP request sent to Netty
     * @param nettyResponse the HTTP response received from Netty
     * @return true if the connection should be kept alive, false if it should be closed.
     */
    boolean keepAlive(Request ahcRequest, HttpRequest nettyRequest, HttpResponse nettyResponse);
}