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-The `Request` class (`cubicweb.web`)
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-
-Overview
-````````
-
-A request instance is created when an HTTP request is sent to the web server.
-It contains informations such as form parameters, user authenticated, etc.
-
-**Globally, a request represents a user query, either through HTTP or not
-(we also talk about RQL queries on the server side for example).**
-
-An instance of `Request` has the following attributes:
-
-* `user`, instance of `cubicweb.common.utils.User` corresponding to the authenticated
-  user
-* `form`, dictionary containing the values of a web form
-* `encoding`, character encoding to use in the response
-
-But also:
-
-* `Session data handling`
-
-  * `session_data()`, returns a dictionary containing all the session data
-  * `get_session_data(key, default=None)`, returns a value associated to the given
-    key or the value `default` if the key is not defined
-  * `set_session_data(key, value)`, assign a value to a key
-  * `del_session_data(key)`,  suppress the value associated to a key
-
-*  `Cookies handling`
-
-  * `get_cookie()`, returns a dictionary containing the value of the header
-    HTTP 'Cookie'
-  * `set_cookie(cookie, key, maxage=300)`, adds a header HTTP `Set-Cookie`,
-    with a minimal 5 minutes length of duration by default (`maxage` = None
-    returns a *session* cookie which will expire when the user closes the browser
-    window)
-  * `remove_cookie(cookie, key)`, forces a value to expire
-
-* `URL handling`
-
-  * `url()`, returns the full URL of the HTTP request
-  * `base_url()`, returns the root URL of the web application
-  * `relative_path()`, returns the relative path of the request
-
-* `And more...`
-
-  * `set_content_type(content_type, filename=None)`, adds the header HTTP
-    'Content-Type'
-  * `get_header(header)`, returns the value associated to an arbitrary header
-    of the HTTP request
-  * `set_header(header, value)`, adds an arbitrary header in the response
-  * `cursor()` returns a RQL cursor on the session
-  * `execute(*args, **kwargs)`, shortcut to ``.cursor().execute()``
-  * `property_value(key)`, properties management (`CWProperty`)
-  * dictionary `data` to store data to share informations between components
-    *while a request is executed*
-
-Please note that this class is abstract and that a concrete implementation
-will be provided by the *frontend* web used (in particular *twisted* as of
-today). For the views or others that are executed on the server side,
-most of the interface of `Request` is defined in the session associated
-to the client.
-
-API
-```
-
-The elements we gave in overview for above are built in three layers,
-from ``cubicweb.req.RequestSessionBase``, ``cubicweb.dbapi.DBAPIRequest`` and
-``cubicweb.web.CubicWebRequestBase``.
-
-.. autoclass:: cubicweb.req.RequestSessionBase
-   :members:
-
-.. autoclass:: cubicweb.dbapi.DBAPIRequest
-   :members:
-
-.. autoclass:: cubicweb.web.request.CubicWebRequestBase
-   :members: