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package org.apache.http.client.methods;

import java.net.URI;

import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;

/**
 * Extended version of the {@link HttpRequest} interface that provides
 * convenience methods to access request properties such as request URI
 * and method type.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface HttpUriRequest extends HttpRequest {

    /**
     * Returns the HTTP method this request uses, such as {@code GET},
     * {@code PUT}, {@code POST}, or other.
     */
    String getMethod();

    /**
     * Returns the URI this request uses, such as
     * {@code http://example.org/path/to/file}.
     * 
     * Note that the URI may be absolute URI (as above) or may be a relative URI.
     * 
     * 
     * Implementations are encouraged to return
     * the URI that was initially requested.
     * 
     * 
     * To find the final URI after any redirects have been processed,
     * please see the section entitled
     * HTTP execution context
     * in the
     * HttpClient Tutorial
     * 
     */
    URI getURI();

    /**
     * Aborts execution of the request.
     *
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if the abort operation
     *   is not supported / cannot be implemented.
     */
    void abort() throws UnsupportedOperationException;

    /**
     * Tests if the request execution has been aborted.
     *
     * @return {@code true} if the request execution has been aborted,
     *   {@code false} otherwise.
     */
    boolean isAborted();

}