2.1/user/src/com/google/gwt/http/client/RequestCallback.java

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 * Copyright 2006 Google Inc.
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package com.google.gwt.http.client;

/**
 * The primary interface a caller must implement to receive a response to a
 * {@link com.google.gwt.http.client.Request}.
 * 
 * <h3>Required Module</h3>
 * Modules that use this interface should inherit
 * <code>com.google.gwt.http.HTTP</code>.
 * 
 * {@gwt.include com/google/gwt/examples/http/InheritsExample.gwt.xml}
 */
public interface RequestCallback {

  /**
   * Called when a pending {@link com.google.gwt.http.client.Request} completes
   * normally.  Note this method is called even when the status code of the 
   * HTTP response is not "OK", 200. 
   * 
   * @param request the object that generated this event
   * @param response an instance of the
   *        {@link com.google.gwt.http.client.Response} class 
   */
  void onResponseReceived(Request request, Response response);

  /**
   * Called when a {@link com.google.gwt.http.client.Request} does not complete
   * normally.  A {@link com.google.gwt.http.client.RequestTimeoutException RequestTimeoutException} is
   * one example of the type of error that a request may encounter.
   * 
   * @param request the request object which has experienced the error
   *     condition, may be null if the request was never generated
   * @param exception the error that was encountered
   */
  void onError(Request request, Throwable exception);
}