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package b4j.core.session;

import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;

import b4j.util.HttpClients;


/**
 * A base class for authorized sessions using Apache's {@link HttpClient}.
 * @author ralph
 * @since 2.0
 *
 */
public abstract class AbstractApacheHttpClientSession extends AbstractHttpSession {

	private HttpClient httpClient = null;
	
	/**
	 * Constructor.
	 */
	public AbstractApacheHttpClientSession() {
	}

	/**
	 * Returns a read-to-use HTTP client based on Apache's {@link HttpClient}.
	 * @return the client already configured with authentication.
	 */
	protected HttpClient getHttpClient() {
		if (this.httpClient == null) {
			this.httpClient = HttpClients.createApacheClient(getHttpSessionParams(), getLog());
		}
		return this.httpClient;
	}
	
	
}