Consider library support for composing, parsing CacheControl

[apetro]

Available library support might ease the parsing, composing CacheControl headers.

Spring Framework seems to offer something.

[drewwills]

@apetro -- I looked at that (mid-progress). It's a builder. It solves the easier problem of outputting a valid Cache-Control string given a set of inputs. It doesn't (alas) solve the harder problem of parsing a set of inputs from a valid string.

That doesn't mean we' shouldn't use it -- we probably should. But the smell of roll-your-own is much greater on the parsing side than the building side.

[apetro]

http client have anything to offer?

[andrewstuart]

There's also CacheControl which seems to be built solely for parsing Cache-Control header strings: CacheControl.valueOf(String value). Seems like that probably gets us exactly what we're looking for, without anything extra. 😄

[drewwills]

I looked at the one in javax.ws.rs.core as well, and it looks like it would suit. Anyone happen to know what dependency includes that package? (It doesn't appear to be in the JDK libs.)

[drewwills]

Probably this: http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22javax.ws.rs-api%22