org.dspace.app.webui.servlet
Class OpenSearchServlet

java.lang.Object
  javax.servlet.GenericServlet
      javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet
          org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet
              org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.OpenSearchServlet

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, javax.servlet.Servlet, javax.servlet.ServletConfig

public class OpenSearchServlet
extends DSpaceServlet

Servlet for producing OpenSearch-compliant search results, and the OpenSearch description document.

OpenSearch is a specification for describing and advertising search-engines and their result formats. Commonly, RSS and Atom formats are used, which the current implementation supports, as is HTML (used directly in browsers). NB: this is baseline OpenSearch, no extensions currently supported.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

OpenSearchServlet()

Method Summary

protected void	doDSGet(Context context, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) Process an incoming HTTP GET.
void	init()

Methods inherited from class org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet

doDSPost, doGet, doPost

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

doDelete, doHead, doOptions, doPut, doTrace, getLastModified, service, service

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.GenericServlet

destroy, getInitParameter, getInitParameterNames, getServletConfig, getServletContext, getServletInfo, getServletName, init, log, log

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

OpenSearchServlet

public OpenSearchServlet()

Method Detail

init

public void init()

Overrides:

init in class javax.servlet.GenericServlet

doDSGet

protected void doDSGet(Context context,
                       javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                       javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)
                throws javax.servlet.ServletException,
                       IOException,
                       SQLException,
                       AuthorizeException

Description copied from class: DSpaceServlet

Process an incoming HTTP GET. If an exception is thrown, or for some other reason the passed in context is not completed, it will be aborted and any changes made by this method discarded when this method returns.

Overrides:

doDSGet in class DSpaceServlet

Parameters:

context - a DSpace Context object

request - the HTTP request

response - the HTTP response

Throws:

SQLException - if a database error occurs

AuthorizeException - if some authorization error occurs

javax.servlet.ServletException

IOException