Package org.apache.http.entity.mime.content

Class AbstractContentBody

java.lang.Object

org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.AbstractContentBody

All Implemented Interfaces:

ContentBody, ContentDescriptor

Direct Known Subclasses:

ByteArrayBody, FileBody, InputStreamBody, StringBody

public abstract class AbstractContentBody
extends Object
implements ContentBody

Since:

4.0

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
AbstractContentBody(String mimeType)	Deprecated. (4.3) use AbstractContentBody(ContentType)
AbstractContentBody(ContentType contentType)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getCharset()	The body descriptors character set, defaulted appropriately for the MIME type.
ContentType	getContentType()
String	getMediaType()	Gets the defaulted MIME media type for this content.
String	getMimeType()	Returns the body descriptors MIME type.
String	getSubType()	Gets the defaulted MIME sub type for this content.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.ContentBody

getFilename, writeTo

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.ContentDescriptor

getContentLength, getTransferEncoding

Constructor Details

AbstractContentBody

public AbstractContentBody(ContentType contentType)

Since:

4.3

AbstractContentBody

@Deprecated
public AbstractContentBody(String mimeType)

Deprecated.

(4.3) use AbstractContentBody(ContentType)

Method Details

getContentType

public ContentType getContentType()

Since:

4.3

getMimeType

public String getMimeType()

Description copied from interface: ContentDescriptor

Returns the body descriptors MIME type.

Specified by:

getMimeType in interface ContentDescriptor

Returns:

The MIME type, which has been parsed from the content-type definition. Must not be null, but "text/plain", if no content-type was specified.

See Also:

• ContentDescriptor.getMediaType()
• ContentDescriptor.getSubType()

getMediaType

public String getMediaType()

Description copied from interface: ContentDescriptor

Gets the defaulted MIME media type for this content. For example TEXT, IMAGE, MULTIPART

Specified by:

getMediaType in interface ContentDescriptor

Returns:

the MIME media type when content-type specified, otherwise the correct default (TEXT)

See Also:

• ContentDescriptor.getMimeType()

getSubType

public String getSubType()

Description copied from interface: ContentDescriptor

Gets the defaulted MIME sub type for this content.

Specified by:

getSubType in interface ContentDescriptor

Returns:

the MIME media type when content-type is specified, otherwise the correct default (PLAIN)

See Also:

• ContentDescriptor.getMimeType()

getCharset

public String getCharset()

Description copied from interface: ContentDescriptor

The body descriptors character set, defaulted appropriately for the MIME type.

For TEXT types, this will be defaulted to us-ascii. For other types, when the charset parameter is missing this property will be null.

Specified by:

getCharset in interface ContentDescriptor

Returns:

Character set, which has been parsed from the content-type definition. Not null for TEXT types, when unset will be set to default us-ascii. For other types, when unset, null will be returned.