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16  //--------------------------------------
17  // utgb-core Project
18  //
19  // RequestHandler.java
20  // Since: Oct 4, 2007
21  //
22  // $URL$ 
23  // $Author$
24  //--------------------------------------
25  package org.utgenome.gwt.utgb.server;
26  
27  import java.io.IOException;
28  
29  import javax.servlet.ServletException;
30  import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
31  import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
32  
33  import org.utgenome.UTGBException;
34  
35  /**
36   * An interface to handler web request
37   * @author leo
38   *
39   */
40  public interface RequestHandler
41  {
42  
43      /**
44       * Handles the HTTP request  
45       * 
46       * @param request the http servlet request
47       * @param response the http servlet response
48       */
49      public void handle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException;
50  
51      /**
52       * Validate request parameters
53       * @return true when request parameter values are valid, otherwise false 
54       * @throws ServletException
55       * @throws UTGBException
56       * 
57       */
58      public void validate(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, UTGBException;
59  }
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