javax.portlet

Interface EventRequest

All Superinterfaces:

PortletRequest, RenderState

All Known Implementing Classes:

EventRequestWrapper

public interface EventRequest
extends PortletRequest

The EventRequest represents the request sent to the portlet to handle an event. It extends the PortletRequest interface to provide event request information to portlets.
The portlet container creates an EventRequest object and passes it as argument to the portlet's processEvent method.

Since:

2.0

See Also:

ActionRequest, PortletRequest

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface javax.portlet.PortletRequest

PortletRequest.P3PUserInfos

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface javax.portlet.PortletRequest

ACTION_PHASE, ACTION_SCOPE_ID, BASIC_AUTH, CCPP_PROFILE, CLIENT_CERT_AUTH, DIGEST_AUTH, EVENT_PHASE, FORM_AUTH, HEADER_PHASE, LIFECYCLE_PHASE, RENDER_HEADERS, RENDER_MARKUP, RENDER_PART, RENDER_PHASE, RESOURCE_PHASE, USER_INFO

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Event	getEvent() Returns the event that triggered the call to the processEvent method.
String	getMethod() Returns the name of the HTTP method with which the original action request was made, for example, POST, or PUT.

Methods inherited from interface javax.portlet.PortletRequest

getAttribute, getAttributeNames, getAuthType, getContextPath, getCookies, getLocale, getLocales, getParameter, getParameterMap, getParameterNames, getParameterValues, getPortalContext, getPortletContext, getPortletSession, getPortletSession, getPreferences, getPrivateParameterMap, getProperties, getProperty, getPropertyNames, getPublicParameterMap, getRemoteUser, getRequestedSessionId, getResponseContentType, getResponseContentTypes, getScheme, getServerName, getServerPort, getUserAgent, getUserPrincipal, getWindowID, isPortletModeAllowed, isRequestedSessionIdValid, isSecure, isUserInRole, isWindowStateAllowed, removeAttribute, setAttribute

Methods inherited from interface javax.portlet.RenderState

getPortletMode, getRenderParameters, getWindowState

Method Detail

getEvent

Event getEvent()

Returns the event that triggered the call to the processEvent method.

Returns:

the event that triggered the current processEvent call.

getMethod

String getMethod()

Returns the name of the HTTP method with which the original action request was made, for example, POST, or PUT.

Returns:

a String specifying the name of the HTTP method with which this request was made

Since:

2.0