Interface ServletRequest

All Known Subinterfaces:
HttpServletRequest
All Known Implementing Classes:
HttpServletRequestWrapper, ServletRequestWrapper

public interface ServletRequest
Defines an object to provide client request information to a servlet. The servlet container creates a ServletRequest object and passes it as an argument to the servlet's service method.

A ServletRequest object provides data including parameter name and values, attributes, and an input stream. Interfaces that extend ServletRequest can provide additional protocol-specific data (for example, HTTP data is provided by HttpServletRequest.

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