The Request Object

The Request object is the one who has been pruned the most from the Cocoon Environment. The sections that were pruned were:

• URI handling
• Session handling
  

NOTE(SM/RR): Session handling has been removed in favor of the cocoon object and URI handling has been removed because unnecessary. I'm aware this is a big statement, please see below of why this is so.

---- methods ----

attributes

• get(name)
• getAttribute(name)
• getAttributeNames()
• setAttribute(name,value)
• removeAttribute(name)
  

encoding

• getCharacterEncoding()
• setCharacterEncoding(encoding)
  
  

payload

• getContentLength()
• getContentType()
  

parameters

• getParameter(name)
• getParameterValues(name)
• getParameterNames()
  

transport

• getAuthType()
• getProtocol()
• getScheme()
• getMethod()
• getServerName()
• getServerPort()
• getRemoteAddr()
• getRemoteHost()
• isSecure()
  

locale

• getLocale()
• getLocales()
  

cookies

• getCookies()
  
  

headers

• getHeader()
• getHeaders()
• getHeadersNames()
  
  

authentication

• getRemoteUser()
• getUserPrincipal()
• isUserInRole(role)
  
  

---- properties ----

[name] -> maps to the parameter indicates with the name

For example request.blah is equivalent to request.getParameter("blah")