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package io.logspace.agent.shaded.apache.http;

import io.logspace.agent.shaded.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;

/**
 * Interface for deciding whether a connection can be re-used for
 * subsequent requests and should be kept alive.
 * 
 * Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared
 * data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed
 * from multiple threads.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface ConnectionReuseStrategy {

    /**
     * Decides whether a connection can be kept open after a request.
     * If this method returns false, the caller MUST
     * close the connection to correctly comply with the HTTP protocol.
     * If it returns true, the caller SHOULD attempt to
     * keep the connection open for reuse with another request.
     * 

     * One can use the HTTP context to retrieve additional objects that
     * may be relevant for the keep-alive strategy: the actual HTTP
     * connection, the original HTTP request, target host if known,
     * number of times the connection has been reused already and so on.
     * 

     * If the connection is already closed, false is returned.
     * The stale connection check MUST NOT be triggered by a
     * connection reuse strategy.
     *
     * @param response
     *          The last response received over that connection.
     * @param context   the context in which the connection is being
     *          used.
     *
     * @return true if the connection is allowed to be reused, or
     *         false if it MUST NOT be reused
     */
    boolean keepAlive(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context);

}