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Anghel Leonard
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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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273. Complementing a conditional HttpHandler with another handler

Let’s assume that we want to choose between two HttpHandler instances based on a condition. For instance, for all GET requests, we want to use the following well-known HttpHandler:

HttpHandler fileHandler = SimpleFileServer.createFileHandler(
  Path.of("./docs").toAbsolutePath()); 

For all other requests, we want to use an HttpHandler that always returns the same resource (for instance, the text No data available). Defining a HttpHandler that always returns the same code and resource (so, a canned response) can be done via the HttpHandlers.of(int statusCode, Headers headers, String body) method as in the following example:

HttpHandler complementHandler = HttpHandlers.of(200,   
  Headers.of("Content-Type", "text/plain"), 
    "No data available");

In addition, the HttpHandler class exposes a method that can decide between two HttpHandler instances based...

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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.
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