Metacat

/**

 *  '$RCSfile$'

 *    Purpose: A Class that implements administrative methods 

 *  Copyright: 2008 Regents of the University of California and the

 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *    Authors: Michael Daigle

 * 

 *   '$Author: daigle $'

 *     '$Date: 2008-07-06 21:25:34 -0700 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) $'

 * '$Revision: 4080 $'

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

 * (at your option) any later version.

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

 */

package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.util;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class ResponseUtil {

	private static Logger logMetacat = Logger.getLogger(ResponseUtil.class);

	/**

	 * private constructor - all methods are static so there is no

     * no need to instantiate.

	 */

	private ResponseUtil() {}

	/**

	 * Redirect a response.

	 * 

	 * @param response

	 *            that is to be redirected

	 * @param destination

	 *            the context-relative URL to which the request is forwarded

	 */

	public static void redirectResponse(HttpServletRequest request,

			HttpServletResponse response, String destination)

			throws IOException {

		logMetacat.debug("Redirecting response to " + request.getContextPath() + destination);

		response.sendRedirect(request.getContextPath() + destination);

	}

}