Handler (OpenAM Server Only 7.3.1 Documentation)

All Known Subinterfaces:

DescribableHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

HttpClientHandler, Router

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.
```
@FunctionalInterface
public interface Handler
```
Asynchronously handles an HTTP Request by producing an associated Response.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Promise<Response,NeverThrowsException>`	`handle(Context context, Request request)`	Returns a `Promise` representing the asynchronous `Response` of the given `request`.

- Method Detail
  - handle
```
Promise<Response,NeverThrowsException> handle(Context context,
                                                    Request request)
```
    Returns a Promise representing the asynchronous Response of the given request. If any (asynchronous) processing goes wrong, the promise still contains a Response (probably from the 4xx or 5xx status code family).
    A handler that doesn't hand-off the processing to another downstream handler is responsible for creating the response.
    The returned Promise contains the response returned from the server as-is. This is responsibility of the handler to produce the appropriate error response (404, 500, ...) in case of processing error.
    Note: As of Promise 2.0 implementation, it is not permitted to throw any runtime exception here. Doing so produce unexpected behaviour (most likely a server-side hang of the processing thread).
    
    Parameters:
    
    context - The request context.
    
    request - The request.
    
    Returns:
    
    A Promise representing the response to be returned to the caller.