Google Data APIs Client Library (1.38.0)

com.google.gdata.client
Class GDataProtocol

java.lang.Object
  com.google.gdata.client.GDataProtocol

public class GDataProtocol
extends java.lang.Object

The GDataProtocol class defines various constant values used within the Google Data API.

Nested Class Summary

static interface	GDataProtocol.Header The Header interface defines various header names used within the GData protocol.
static interface	GDataProtocol.Parameter The Parameters interface defines basic query parameter names used within the Data protocol.
static interface	GDataProtocol.Query The Query interface extends the basic set of parameter names with the common set that are used for GData feed queries.

Method Summary

static boolean

isWeakEtag(java.lang.String etag) Returns true if an entity tag value is a weak Etag, as defined in RFC2616, Section 3.11.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

isWeakEtag

public static boolean isWeakEtag(java.lang.String etag)

Returns true if an entity tag value is a weak Etag, as defined in RFC2616, Section 3.11. Weak Etags can be used for weak comparisons, such as in some caching scenarios, but may not be used for strong validation (like update preconditions).

Parameters:

etag - entity tag value.

Returns:

true if value is a weak Etag.