Package org.apache.http.entity

Class FileEntity

java.lang.Object

org.apache.http.entity.AbstractHttpEntity

org.apache.http.entity.FileEntity

All Implemented Interfaces:

Cloneable, HttpEntity

public class FileEntity
extends AbstractHttpEntity
implements Cloneable

A self contained, repeatable entity that obtains its content from a file.

Since:

4.0

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FileEntity(File file)
FileEntity(File file, String contentType)	Deprecated. (4.1.3) FileEntity(File, ContentType)
FileEntity(File file, ContentType contentType)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Object	clone()
InputStream	getContent()	Returns a content stream of the entity.
long	getContentLength()	Tells the length of the content, if known.
boolean	isRepeatable()	Tells if the entity is capable of producing its data more than once.
boolean	isStreaming()	Tells that this entity is not streaming.
void	writeTo(OutputStream outstream)	Writes the entity content out to the output stream.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.http.entity.AbstractHttpEntity

consumeContent, getContentEncoding, getContentType, isChunked, setChunked, setContentEncoding, setContentEncoding, setContentType, setContentType, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

FileEntity

@Deprecated
public FileEntity(File file,
 String contentType)

Deprecated.

(4.1.3) FileEntity(File, ContentType)

FileEntity

public FileEntity(File file,
 ContentType contentType)

Since:

4.2

FileEntity

public FileEntity(File file)

Since:

4.2

Method Details

isRepeatable

public boolean isRepeatable()

Description copied from interface: HttpEntity

Tells if the entity is capable of producing its data more than once. A repeatable entity's getContent() and writeTo(OutputStream) methods can be called more than once whereas a non-repeatable entity's can not.

Specified by:

isRepeatable in interface HttpEntity

Returns:

true if the entity is repeatable, false otherwise.

getContentLength

public long getContentLength()

Description copied from interface: HttpEntity

Tells the length of the content, if known.

Specified by:

getContentLength in interface HttpEntity

Returns:

the number of bytes of the content, or a negative number if unknown. If the content length is known but exceeds Long.MAX_VALUE, a negative number is returned.

getContent

public InputStream getContent()
                       throws IOException

Description copied from interface: HttpEntity

Returns a content stream of the entity. Repeatable entities are expected to create a new instance of InputStream for each invocation of this method and therefore can be consumed multiple times. Entities that are not repeatable are expected to return the same InputStream instance and therefore may not be consumed more than once.

IMPORTANT: Please note all entity implementations must ensure that all allocated resources are properly deallocated after the InputStream.close() method is invoked.

Specified by:

getContent in interface HttpEntity

Returns:

content stream of the entity.

Throws:

IOException - if the stream could not be created

See Also:

• HttpEntity.isRepeatable()

writeTo

public void writeTo(OutputStream outstream)
             throws IOException

Description copied from interface: HttpEntity

Writes the entity content out to the output stream.

IMPORTANT: Please note all entity implementations must ensure that all allocated resources are properly deallocated when this method returns.

Specified by:

writeTo in interface HttpEntity

Parameters:

outstream - the output stream to write entity content to

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs

isStreaming

public boolean isStreaming()

Tells that this entity is not streaming.

Specified by:

isStreaming in interface HttpEntity

Returns:

false

clone

public Object clone()
             throws CloneNotSupportedException

Throws:

CloneNotSupportedException