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package com.google.resting.component;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;

import com.google.resting.component.impl.BasicRequestParams;
import com.google.resting.component.impl.json.JSONRequestParams;

/**
 * Abstract class for handling collection query parameters for REST invocation. This class should be extended 
 * for application/technology specific collections. The directly known subclasses available are {@link BasicRequestParams}
 * and {@link JSONRequestParams}.  
 * 
 * @author sujata.de
 * @since resting 0.1
 * 
 */
public abstract class RequestParams {
  
  //
  protected List<NameValuePair> queryParams=null;

  protected RequestParams(){
    queryParams= new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
  }

  /**
   * To add input params in the format &key=value
   * 
   * @param key
   * @param value
   */
  public abstract void add(String name, String value);
  

  public List<NameValuePair> getRequestParams() {
    return queryParams;
  }
  
}