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+/*
+ *   SONEWS News Server
+ *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
+ *
+ *   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 3 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+package org.sonews.daemon.command;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import org.sonews.daemon.NNTPConnection;
+
+/**
+ * <pre>
+ *   XPAT header range|<message-id> pat [pat...]
+ *
+ *   The XPAT command is used to retrieve specific headers from
+ *   specific articles, based on pattern matching on the contents of
+ *   the header. This command was first available in INN.
+ *
+ *   The required header parameter is the name of a header line (e.g.
+ *   "subject") in a news group article. See RFC-1036 for a list
+ *   of valid header lines. The required range argument may be
+ *   any of the following:
+ *               an article number
+ *               an article number followed by a dash to indicate
+ *                  all following
+ *               an article number followed by a dash followed by
+ *                  another article number
+ *
+ *   The required message-id argument indicates a specific
+ *   article. The range and message-id arguments are mutually
+ *   exclusive. At least one pattern in wildmat must be specified
+ *   as well. If there are additional arguments the are joined
+ *   together separated by a single space to form one complete
+ *   pattern. Successful responses start with a 221 response
+ *   followed by a the headers from all messages in which the
+ *   pattern matched the contents of the specified header line. This
+ *   includes an empty list. Once the output is complete, a period
+ *   is sent on a line by itself. If the optional argument is a
+ *   message-id and no such article exists, the 430 error response
+ *   is returned. A 502 response will be returned if the client only
+ *   has permission to transfer articles.
+ *
+ *   Responses
+ *
+ *       221 Header follows
+ *       430 no such article
+ *       502 no permission
+ * </pre>
+ * [Source:"draft-ietf-nntp-imp-02.txt"] [Copyright: 1998 S. Barber]
+ * 
+ * @author Christian Lins
+ * @since sonews/0.5.0
+ */
+public class XPatCommand extends AbstractCommand
+{
+
+  public XPatCommand(final NNTPConnection conn)
+  {
+    super(conn);
+  }
+  
+  @Override
+  public boolean hasFinished()
+  {
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void processLine(final String line) 
+    throws IOException, SQLException
+  {
+    printStatus(500, "not (yet) supported");
+  }
+
+}