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AttachmentPart.javaAPI DocJava SE 6 API20963Tue Jun 10 00:27:08 BST 2008javax.xml.soap

AttachmentPart

public abstract class AttachmentPart extends Object
A single attachment to a SOAPMessage object. A SOAPMessage object may contain zero, one, or many AttachmentPart objects. Each AttachmentPart object consists of two parts, application-specific content and associated MIME headers. The MIME headers consists of name/value pairs that can be used to identify and describe the content.

An AttachmentPart object must conform to certain standards.

  1. It must conform to MIME [RFC2045] standards
  2. It MUST contain content
  3. The header portion MUST include the following header:
    • Content-Type
      This header identifies the type of data in the content of an AttachmentPart object and MUST conform to [RFC2045]. The following is an example of a Content-Type header:
      Content-Type: application/xml
      
      The following line of code, in which ap is an AttachmentPart object, sets the header shown in the previous example.
      ap.setMimeHeader("Content-Type", "application/xml");
      

There are no restrictions on the content portion of an AttachmentPart object. The content may be anything from a simple plain text object to a complex XML document or image file.

An AttachmentPart object is created with the method SOAPMessage.createAttachmentPart. After setting its MIME headers, the AttachmentPart object is added to the message that created it with the method SOAPMessage.addAttachmentPart.

The following code fragment, in which m is a SOAPMessage object and contentStringl is a String, creates an instance of AttachmentPart, sets the AttachmentPart object with some content and header information, and adds the AttachmentPart object to the SOAPMessage object.

AttachmentPart ap1 = m.createAttachmentPart();
ap1.setContent(contentString1, "text/plain");
m.addAttachmentPart(ap1);

The following code fragment creates and adds a second AttachmentPart instance to the same message. jpegData is a binary byte buffer representing the jpeg file.

AttachmentPart ap2 = m.createAttachmentPart();
byte[] jpegData = ...;
ap2.setContent(new ByteArrayInputStream(jpegData), "image/jpeg");
m.addAttachmentPart(ap2);

The getContent method retrieves the contents and header from an AttachmentPart object. Depending on the DataContentHandler objects present, the returned Object can either be a typed Java object corresponding to the MIME type or an InputStream object that contains the content as bytes.

String content1 = ap1.getContent();
java.io.InputStream content2 = ap2.getContent();
The method clearContent removes all the content from an AttachmentPart object but does not affect its header information.
ap1.clearContent();

Fields Summary
Constructors Summary
Methods Summary
public abstract voidaddMimeHeader(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String value)
Adds a MIME header with the specified name and value to this AttachmentPart object.

Note that RFC822 headers can contain only US-ASCII characters.

param
name a String giving the name of the header to be added
param
value a String giving the value of the header to be added
exception
IllegalArgumentException if there was a problem with the specified mime header name or value

public abstract voidclearContent()
Clears out the content of this AttachmentPart object. The MIME header portion is left untouched.

public abstract java.util.IteratorgetAllMimeHeaders()
Retrieves all the headers for this AttachmentPart object as an iterator over the MimeHeader objects.

return
an Iterator object with all of the Mime headers for this AttachmentPart object

public abstract java.io.InputStreamgetBase64Content()
Returns an InputStream which can be used to obtain the content of AttachmentPart as Base64 encoded character data, this method would base64 encode the raw bytes of the attachment and return.

return
an InputStream from which the Base64 encoded AttachmentPart can be read.
throws
SOAPException if there is no content set into this AttachmentPart object or if there was a data transformation error.
since
SAAJ 1.3

public abstract java.lang.ObjectgetContent()
Gets the content of this AttachmentPart object as a Java object. The type of the returned Java object depends on (1) the DataContentHandler object that is used to interpret the bytes and (2) the Content-Type given in the header.

For the MIME content types "text/plain", "text/html" and "text/xml", the DataContentHandler object does the conversions to and from the Java types corresponding to the MIME types. For other MIME types,the DataContentHandler object can return an InputStream object that contains the content data as raw bytes.

A SAAJ-compliant implementation must, as a minimum, return a java.lang.String object corresponding to any content stream with a Content-Type value of text/plain, a javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource object corresponding to a content stream with a Content-Type value of text/xml, a java.awt.Image object corresponding to a content stream with a Content-Type value of image/gif or image/jpeg. For those content types that an installed DataContentHandler object does not understand, the DataContentHandler object is required to return a java.io.InputStream object with the raw bytes.

return
a Java object with the content of this AttachmentPart object
exception
SOAPException if there is no content set into this AttachmentPart object or if there was a data transformation error

public java.lang.StringgetContentId()
Gets the value of the MIME header whose name is "Content-ID".

return
a String giving the value of the "Content-ID" header or null if there is none
see
#setContentId

        String[] values = getMimeHeader("Content-ID");
        if (values != null && values.length > 0)
            return values[0];
        return null;
    
public java.lang.StringgetContentLocation()
Gets the value of the MIME header whose name is "Content-Location".

return
a String giving the value of the "Content-Location" header or null if there is none

        String[] values = getMimeHeader("Content-Location");
        if (values != null && values.length > 0)
            return values[0];
        return null;
    
public java.lang.StringgetContentType()
Gets the value of the MIME header whose name is "Content-Type".

return
a String giving the value of the "Content-Type" header or null if there is none

        String[] values = getMimeHeader("Content-Type");
        if (values != null && values.length > 0)
            return values[0];
        return null;
    
public abstract javax.activation.DataHandlergetDataHandler()
Gets the DataHandler object for this AttachmentPart object.

return
the DataHandler object associated with this AttachmentPart object
exception
SOAPException if there is no data in this AttachmentPart object

public abstract java.util.IteratorgetMatchingMimeHeaders(java.lang.String[] names)
Retrieves all MimeHeader objects that match a name in the given array.

param
names a String array with the name(s) of the MIME headers to be returned
return
all of the MIME headers that match one of the names in the given array as an Iterator object

public abstract java.lang.String[]getMimeHeader(java.lang.String name)
Gets all the values of the header identified by the given String.

param
name the name of the header; example: "Content-Type"
return
a String array giving the value for the specified header
see
#setMimeHeader

public abstract java.util.IteratorgetNonMatchingMimeHeaders(java.lang.String[] names)
Retrieves all MimeHeader objects whose name does not match a name in the given array.

param
names a String array with the name(s) of the MIME headers not to be returned
return
all of the MIME headers in this AttachmentPart object except those that match one of the names in the given array. The nonmatching MIME headers are returned as an Iterator object.

public abstract java.io.InputStreamgetRawContent()
Gets the content of this AttachmentPart object as an InputStream as if a call had been made to getContent and no DataContentHandler had been registered for the content-type of this AttachmentPart.

Note that reading from the returned InputStream would result in consuming the data in the stream. It is the responsibility of the caller to reset the InputStream appropriately before calling a Subsequent API. If a copy of the raw attachment content is required then the {@link #getRawContentBytes} API should be used instead.

return
an InputStream from which the raw data contained by the AttachmentPart can be accessed.
throws
SOAPException if there is no content set into this AttachmentPart object or if there was a data transformation error.
since
SAAJ 1.3
see
#getRawContentBytes

public abstract byte[]getRawContentBytes()
Gets the content of this AttachmentPart object as a byte[] array as if a call had been made to getContent and no DataContentHandler had been registered for the content-type of this AttachmentPart.

return
a byte[] array containing the raw data of the AttachmentPart.
throws
SOAPException if there is no content set into this AttachmentPart object or if there was a data transformation error.
since
SAAJ 1.3

public abstract intgetSize()
Returns the number of bytes in this AttachmentPart object.

return
the size of this AttachmentPart object in bytes or -1 if the size cannot be determined
exception
SOAPException if the content of this attachment is corrupted of if there was an exception while trying to determine the size.

public abstract voidremoveAllMimeHeaders()
Removes all the MIME header entries.

public abstract voidremoveMimeHeader(java.lang.String header)
Removes all MIME headers that match the given name.

param
header the string name of the MIME header/s to be removed

public abstract voidsetBase64Content(java.io.InputStream content, java.lang.String contentType)
Sets the content of this attachment part from the Base64 source InputStream and sets the value of the Content-Type header to the value contained in contentType, This method would first decode the base64 input and write the resulting raw bytes to the attachment.

A subsequent call to getSize() may not be an exact measure of the content size.

param
content the base64 encoded data to add to the attachment part
param
contentType the value to set into the Content-Type header
exception
SOAPException if an there is an error in setting the content
exception
NullPointerException if content is null
since
SAAJ 1.3

public abstract voidsetContent(java.lang.Object object, java.lang.String contentType)
Sets the content of this attachment part to that of the given Object and sets the value of the Content-Type header to the given type. The type of the Object should correspond to the value given for the Content-Type. This depends on the particular set of DataContentHandler objects in use.

param
object the Java object that makes up the content for this attachment part
param
contentType the MIME string that specifies the type of the content
exception
IllegalArgumentException may be thrown if the contentType does not match the type of the content object, or if there was no DataContentHandler object for this content object
see
#getContent

public voidsetContentId(java.lang.String contentId)
Sets the MIME header whose name is "Content-ID" with the given value.

param
contentId a String giving the value of the "Content-ID" header
exception
IllegalArgumentException if there was a problem with the specified contentId value
see
#getContentId

        setMimeHeader("Content-ID", contentId);
    
public voidsetContentLocation(java.lang.String contentLocation)
Sets the MIME header whose name is "Content-Location" with the given value.

param
contentLocation a String giving the value of the "Content-Location" header
exception
IllegalArgumentException if there was a problem with the specified content location

        setMimeHeader("Content-Location", contentLocation);
    
public voidsetContentType(java.lang.String contentType)
Sets the MIME header whose name is "Content-Type" with the given value.

param
contentType a String giving the value of the "Content-Type" header
exception
IllegalArgumentException if there was a problem with the specified content type

        setMimeHeader("Content-Type", contentType);
    
public abstract voidsetDataHandler(javax.activation.DataHandler dataHandler)
Sets the given DataHandler object as the data handler for this AttachmentPart object. Typically, on an incoming message, the data handler is automatically set. When a message is being created and populated with content, the setDataHandler method can be used to get data from various data sources into the message.

param
dataHandler the DataHandler object to be set
exception
IllegalArgumentException if there was a problem with the specified DataHandler object

public abstract voidsetMimeHeader(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String value)
Changes the first header entry that matches the given name to the given value, adding a new header if no existing header matches. This method also removes all matching headers but the first.

Note that RFC822 headers can only contain US-ASCII characters.

param
name a String giving the name of the header for which to search
param
value a String giving the value to be set for the header whose name matches the given name
exception
IllegalArgumentException if there was a problem with the specified mime header name or value

public abstract voidsetRawContent(java.io.InputStream content, java.lang.String contentType)
Sets the content of this attachment part to that contained by the InputStream content and sets the value of the Content-Type header to the value contained in contentType.

A subsequent call to getSize() may not be an exact measure of the content size.

param
content the raw data to add to the attachment part
param
contentType the value to set into the Content-Type header
exception
SOAPException if an there is an error in setting the content
exception
NullPointerException if content is null
since
SAAJ 1.3

public abstract voidsetRawContentBytes(byte[] content, int offset, int len, java.lang.String contentType)
Sets the content of this attachment part to that contained by the byte[] array content and sets the value of the Content-Type header to the value contained in contentType.

param
content the raw data to add to the attachment part
param
contentType the value to set into the Content-Type header
param
offset the offset in the byte array of the content
param
len the number of bytes that form the content
exception
SOAPException if an there is an error in setting the content or content is null
since
SAAJ 1.3