BindingProvider.java

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package javax.xml.ws;

import java.util.Map;
import javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference;

/**
 * The <code>BindingProvider</code> interface provides access to the
 * protocol binding and associated context objects for request and
 * response message processing.
 *
 * @since JAX-WS 2.0
 *
 * @see javax.xml.ws.Binding
 **/
public interface BindingProvider {
    /**
     * Standard property: User name for authentication.
     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.String</code>
     **/
    public static final String USERNAME_PROPERTY =
            "javax.xml.ws.security.auth.username";

    /**
     * Standard property: Password for authentication.
     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.String</code>
     **/
    public static final String PASSWORD_PROPERTY =
            "javax.xml.ws.security.auth.password";

    /**
     * Standard property: Target service endpoint address. The
     * URI scheme for the endpoint address specification MUST
     * correspond to the protocol/transport binding for the
     * binding in use.
     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.String</code>
     **/
    public static final String ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY =
            "javax.xml.ws.service.endpoint.address";

    /**
     * Standard property: This boolean property is used by a service
     * client to indicate whether or not it wants to participate in
     * a session with a service endpoint. If this property is set to
     * <code>true</code>, the service client indicates that it wants the session
     * to be maintained. If set to <code>false</code>, the session is not maintained.
     * The default value for this property is <code>false</code>.
     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.Boolean</code>
     **/
    public static final String SESSION_MAINTAIN_PROPERTY =
            "javax.xml.ws.session.maintain";

    /**
     * Standard property for SOAPAction. This boolean property
     * indicates whether or not the value of the
     * <code>javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.uri</code> property
     * is used for the value of the SOAPAction. The
     * default value of this property is <code>false</code> indicating
     * that the
     * <code>javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.uri</code> property
     * is not used for the value of the SOAPAction, however,
     * if WS-Addressing is enabled, the default value is
     * <code>true</code>.
     *
     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.Boolean</code>
     **/
    public static final String SOAPACTION_USE_PROPERTY =
            "javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.use";

    /**
     * Standard property for SOAPAction. Indicates the SOAPAction
     * URI if the <code>javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.use</code>
     * property is set to <code>true</code>. If WS-Addressing
     * is enabled, this value will also be used for the value of the
     * WS-Addressing Action header.  If this property is not set,
     * the default SOAPAction and WS-Addressing Action will be sent.
     *
     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.String</code>
     **/
    public static final String SOAPACTION_URI_PROPERTY =
            "javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.uri";

    /**
     * Get the context that is used to initialize the message context
     * for request messages.
     *
     * Modifications to the request context do not affect the message context of
     * either synchronous or asynchronous operations that have already been
     * started.
     *
     * @return The context that is used in processing request messages.
     **/
    Map<String, Object> getRequestContext();

    /**
     * Get the context that resulted from processing a response message.
     *
     * The returned context is for the most recently completed synchronous
     * operation. Subsequent synchronous operation invocations overwrite the
     * response context. Asynchronous operations return their response context
     * via the Response interface.
     *
     * @return The context that resulted from processing the latest
     * response messages.
     **/
    Map<String, Object> getResponseContext();

    /**
     * Get the Binding for this binding provider.
     *
     * @return The Binding for this binding provider.
     **/
    Binding getBinding();



    /**
     * Returns the <code>EndpointReference</code> associated with
     * this <code>BindingProvider</code> instance.
     * <p>
     * If the Binding for this <code>bindingProvider</code> is
     * either SOAP1.1/HTTP or SOAP1.2/HTTP, then a
     * <code>W3CEndpointReference</code> MUST be returned.
     *
     * @return EndpointReference of the target endpoint associated with this
     * <code>BindingProvider</code> instance.
     *
     * @throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException If this
     * <code>BindingProvider</code> uses the XML/HTTP binding.
     *
     * @see W3CEndpointReference
     *
     * @since JAX-WS 2.1
     */
    public EndpointReference getEndpointReference();


    /**
     * Returns the <code>EndpointReference</code> associated with
     * this <code>BindingProvider</code> instance.  The instance
     * returned will be of type <code>clazz</code>.
     *
     * @param clazz Specifies the type of <code>EndpointReference</code>
     * that MUST be returned.

     * @return EndpointReference of the target endpoint associated with this
     * <code>BindingProvider</code> instance. MUST be of type
     * <code>clazz</code>.

     * @throws WebServiceException If the Class <code>clazz</code>
     * is not supported by this implementation.
     * @throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException If this
     * <code>BindingProvider</code> uses the XML/HTTP binding.
     *
     * @since JAX-WS 2.1
     */
    public <T extends EndpointReference> T getEndpointReference(Class<T> clazz);
}