org.apache.webdav.lib.methods
Class MkcolMethod
HttpMethodBase
org.apache.webdav.lib.methods.MkcolMethod
public class MkcolMethod
extends HttpMethodBase
The MKCOL method is used to create a new collection. All DAV compliant
resources must support the MKCOL method. Collections are merely
the HTTP name for structures like directories or folders (and, in
fact, often map directly to a folder or directory on the web server.
This implementation of a MKCOL client method does not support a
a request body, and the newly created web collection should therefore
have no members.
MKCOL creates a new collection resource at the location specified by
the Request-URI. If the resource identified by the Request-URI already
exists on the server then the MKCOL will fail. During MKCOL processing,
a server will make the Request-URI a member of the URI's parent collection
(unless the Request-URI is "/"). If no parent collection exists, the method
will fail. Thus, for example, if a request to create collection
/a/b/c/d/
is made, and neither
/a/b/
nor
/a/b/c/
exists, the request will fail.
MKCOL is not idempotent (that is to say, each MKCOL request should
be handled by the web server, and the results of a MKCOL request should
not be cached).
Example Request
MKCOL /webdisc/xfiles/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.server.org
Example Response
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
MkcolMethod
public MkcolMethod()
Method constructor.
MkcolMethod
public MkcolMethod(String path)
Method constructor.
getName
public String getName()
parseResponse
public void parseResponse(InputStream is)
throws IOException
Parse the response body. The MKCOL method does not receive a response
body.