com.iplanet.trustbase.initiator
Interface TransportAdapter

All Known Implementing Classes:

XURLTransportAdapter, HTTPTransportAdapter

public interface TransportAdapter

The TransportAdapter is responsible for managing the delivery and reception of a message.

See Also:

TransportAdapterException, ConfigAdapterException

Method Summary

byte[]

sendReceive(byte[] data, java.lang.String url, java.lang.String messageType) Send and receive the message data

Method Detail

sendReceive

public byte[] sendReceive(byte[] data,
                          java.lang.String url,
                          java.lang.String messageType)
                   throws TransportAdapterException,
                          ConfigAdapterException

Send and receive the message data

Parameters:

data - the data to be sent

location - the responder URL

messageType - the message type of the request such as paymenrequest. This is later resolved by a concrete implementation of the TransportAdapter into a specific mimeType.

Returns:

the data that was returned from the responder

Throws:

TransportAdapterException - on any transport error