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# Interface w3c.jigsaw.ssi.Command

public interface Command
extends Object

This interface is used to supply implementations of SSI commands. They have to be registered in a CommandRegistry, which in turn is used by the SSIResource.

See Also:
  CommandRegistry

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execute(SSIResource, Request, ArrayDictionary, Dictionary)
  Executes this command.
getName()
  Returns the name of this command.

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execute

      public abstract Reply execute(SSIResource resource,
                                    Request request,
                                    ArrayDictionary parameters,
                                    Dictionary variables)

  Executes this command. Might modify variables. Must not modify the parameters.

  It may handle conditional requests, except that if it replies with a status of HTTP.NOT_MODIFIED, it must still reply with a content (the same content that it would have returned for an inconditional request). This is because further SSI commands down the line may decide thay they have been modified, and then a content must be emitted by SSIResource.

  Parameters:
    request - the original HTTP request
    parameters - The parameters for this command
    variables - The global variables for the parse
  Returns:
    a Reply with the output from the command

getName

      public abstract String getName()

  Returns the name of this command. (Case sensitivity is up to the `lookupCommand` method in the command registry.)
  Returns:
    the name of the command
  See Also:
    lookupCommand

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