RFR: 8276559: (httpclient) Consider adding an HttpRequest.Builder.HEAD method to build a HEAD request.

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:22:19 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > > P.S: Slightly unrelated question - is it intentional that the `Builder` interface specifies the visibility modifiers on the interface methods. For example: `public abstract Builder timeout(Duration duration);`, `public Builder headers(String... headers);` and so on?
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> > Stylistic preference of the author - I guess (could be me). If this were a new class I would advise to remove the redundant qualifiers.
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> Understood. I have the habit of using the `public` too sometimes. It was the presence of `abstract` in one of the methods which made me a bit curious.

Oh - maybe it went back and forth from being an abstract class or an interface during prototyping...

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6348