org.restlet.representation.Representation.release()
Releases the representation and all associated objects like streams, channels or files which are used to produce its content, transient or not. This method must be systematically called when the representation is no longer intended to be used. The framework automatically calls back this method via its connectors on the server-side when sending responses with an entity and on the client-side when sending a request with an entity. By default, it calls the {@link #setAvailable(boolean)} methodwith "false" as a value.
Note that for transient socket-bound representations, calling this method after consuming the whole content shouldn't prevent the reuse of underlying socket via persistent connections for example. However, if the content hasn't been read, or has been partially read, the impact should be to discard the remaining content and to close the underlying connections.
Therefore, if you are not interested in the content, or in the remaining content, you should first call the {@link #exhaust()} method or if thiscould be too costly, you should instead explicitly abort the parent request and the underlying connections using the {@link Request#abort()}method or a shortcut one like {@link org.restlet.resource.ServerResource#abort()} or{@link Response#abort()}.