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/*
 * ====================================================================
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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 *
 * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
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package ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.conn.routing;

import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HttpException;
import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HttpHost;
import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HttpRequest;
import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.protocol.HttpContext;

/**
 * Encapsulates logic to compute a {@link HttpRoute} to a target host.
 * Implementations may for example be based on parameters, or on the
 * standard Java system properties.
 * <p/>
 * Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared
 * data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed
 * from multiple threads.
 *
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface HttpRoutePlanner {

    /**
     * Determines the route for a request.
     *
     * @param target    the target host for the request.
     *                  Implementations may accept <code>null</code>
     *                  if they can still determine a route, for example
     *                  to a default target or by inspecting the request.
     * @param request   the request to execute
     * @param context   the context to use for the subsequent execution.
     *                  Implementations may accept <code>null</code>.
     *
     * @return  the route that the request should take
     *
     * @throws HttpException    in case of a problem
     */
    public HttpRoute determineRoute(HttpHost target,
                                    HttpRequest request,
                                    HttpContext context) throws HttpException;

}