ca.infoway.messagebuilder.transport
Interface TransportLayer

All Known Subinterfaces:

AsynchronousTransportLayer

All Known Implementing Classes:

MohawkTransportLayer, RestTransportLayer, SystemOutTransportLayer

public interface TransportLayer

A transport mechanism for sending requests (as requestMessages) and receiving responses (as strings).

Author:

Intelliware Development sharpen.ignore - transport - TBD!

Method Summary

String

sendRequestAndGetResponse(CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider, RequestMessage requestMessage) Sends a RequestMessage using the provided credentials and returns a response message as a string.

Method Detail

sendRequestAndGetResponse

String sendRequestAndGetResponse(CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider,
                                 RequestMessage requestMessage)
                                 throws TransportLayerException

Sends a RequestMessage using the provided credentials and returns a response message as a string.

Parameters:

credentialsProvider - a way to obtain credentials

requestMessage - the message to be sent across the transport layer

Returns:

the response message as a string

Throws:

TransportLayerException - if any problems occurred during send or receive of the message