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package org.apache.http.client.entity;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.http.annotation.NotThreadSafe;

import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;

/**
 * An entity composed of a list of url-encoded pairs.
 * This is typically useful while sending an HTTP POST request.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
@NotThreadSafe // AbstractHttpEntity is not thread-safe
public class UrlEncodedFormEntity extends StringEntity {

    /**
     * Constructs a new {@link UrlEncodedFormEntity} with the list
     * of parameters in the specified encoding.
     *
     * @param parameters list of name/value pairs
     * @param encoding encoding the name/value pairs be encoded with
     * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException if the encoding isn't supported
     */
    public UrlEncodedFormEntity (
        final List  parameters,
        final String encoding) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        super(URLEncodedUtils.format(parameters, encoding), encoding);
        setContentType(URLEncodedUtils.CONTENT_TYPE + HTTP.CHARSET_PARAM +
                (encoding != null ? encoding : HTTP.DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new {@link UrlEncodedFormEntity} with the list
     * of parameters with the default encoding of {@link HTTP#DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET}
     *
     * @param parameters list of name/value pairs
     * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException if the default encoding isn't supported
     */
    public UrlEncodedFormEntity (
        final List  parameters) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        this(parameters, HTTP.DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET);
    }

}