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package org.apache.solr.client.solrj;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.apache.solr.common.params.SolrParams;
import org.apache.solr.common.util.ContentStream;

/**
 * 
 * @version $Id: SolrRequest.java 632228 2008-02-29 05:34:51Z ryan $
 * @since solr 1.3
 */
public abstract class SolrRequest implements Serializable
{
  public enum METHOD {
    GET,
    POST
  };

  private METHOD method = METHOD.GET;
  private String path = null;

  private ResponseParser responseParser;
  //---------------------------------------------------------
  //---------------------------------------------------------

  public SolrRequest( METHOD m, String path )
  {
    this.method = m;
    this.path = path;
  }

  //---------------------------------------------------------
  //---------------------------------------------------------

  public METHOD getMethod() {
    return method;
  }
  public void setMethod(METHOD method) {
    this.method = method;
  }

  public String getPath() {
    return path;
  }
  public void setPath(String path) {
    this.path = path;
  }

  /**
   *
   * @return The {@link org.apache.solr.client.solrj.ResponseParser}
   */
  public ResponseParser getResponseParser() {
    return responseParser;
  }

  /**
   * Optionally specify how the Response should be parsed.  Not all server implementations require a ResponseParser
   * to be specified.
   * @param responseParser The {@link org.apache.solr.client.solrj.ResponseParser}
   */
  public void setResponseParser(ResponseParser responseParser) {
    this.responseParser = responseParser;
  }

  public abstract SolrParams getParams();
  public abstract Collection<ContentStream> getContentStreams() throws IOException;
  public abstract SolrResponse process( SolrServer server ) throws SolrServerException, IOException;
}