This method processes an HTTP request with the contents of the specified ClientRequest object and returns an HTTP response as the ClientResponse object.

public ClientResponse handle(ClientRequest request)

throws ClientHandlerException

request

This is an HTTP request.

The method returns an HTTP response.

ClientHandlerException

This exception is thrown if a problem occurs during the processing. The error message KDJJ18888-E is output to the log.

• If an exception is thrown during the processing of the HTTP request and HTTP response, an error (KDJJ18888-E) occurs and the ClientHandlerException exception that wraps this exception is thrown. Exceptions are thrown under different conditions in different environments. Therefore, also see the notes for each of the following methods:
  

  Client class

  getProperties() method

  resource(String u) method

  resource(URI u) method

  setChunkedEncodingSize(Integer chunkSize) method

  setConnectTimeout(Integer interval) method

  setFollowRedirects(Boolean redirect) method

  setReadTimeout(Integer interval) method

  ClientRequest class

  getProperties() method

  setEntity(Object entity) method

  setMethod(String method) method

  setURI(java.net.URI uri) method

  ClientRequest.Builder class

  accept(MediaType... types) method

  accept(String... types) method

  acceptLanguage(Locale... locales) method

  acceptLanguage(String... locales) method

  build(URI uri, String method) method

  cookie(Cookie cookie) method

  entity(Object entity) method

  entity(Object entity, MediaType type) method

  entity(Object entity, String type) method

  header(String name, Object value) method

  type(MediaType type) method

  type(String type) method

• For an example of using the handle(ClientRequest request) method, see getProperties() method.