A RequestAgent is a ServiceAgent that implements RequestAgentInterface. Create agents that extend this class to inherit the basic functionality for registering them with the ServiceManager at startup and making it available to other agents as a request based service.

RequestAgents are commonly used in conjunction with the WebServer and SecureWebServer classes to respond to HTTP requests. Here's an example of a simple RequestAgent written in Visual Basic:

 Imports com.neokernel.nk
    Imports com.neokernel.util

    Public Class SimpleVBPage
    Inherits RequestAgent

    Overrides Sub handleRequest(ByVal Request As AgentRequest)
    Dim title, body As String
    body = getString("body")
    Request.println(body)
    End Sub

    Overrides Sub initProps()
    setDefault("service_name", "/simple.agent")
    setDefault("body", "This is output from the SimplePage agent!")
    End Sub
    
    End Class

If a browser requests http://localhost/simple.agent from a server that has started the above SimpleAgent, the browser will display the text

This is output from the SimplePage agent!

Here is the exact same agent written using C#:

 using System;
    using com.neokernel.nk;

    public class SimplePage : RequestAgent
    {
        public override void initProps()
        {
            setDefault("service_name", "/simple.agent");

            setDefault("body", "This is output from the SimplePage agent!");
        }

        public override void handleRequest(HTTPAgentRequest request)
        {
            String body = getString("body");

            request.println( body );
        }
    }
    

For a list of all members of this type, see RequestAgent Members .

System.Object
   Props
      Agent
         ServiceAgent
            RequestAgent
               Derived types

Thread Safety

Public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. Instance members are not guaranteed to be thread-safe.

Requirements

Namespace: com.neokernel.nk

Assembly: Neokernel (in Neokernel.exe)

See Also

RequestAgent Members | com.neokernel.nk Namespace | AgentRequest | HTTPAuthenticationAgent | HTTPFileServerAgent | HTTPProxyAgent | HTTPAuthenticationAgent | WebServer

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