src/org/apache/http/entity/AbstractHttpEntity.java

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package org.apache.http.entity;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.http.Header;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;

/**
 * Abstract base class for entities.
 * Provides the commonly used attributes for streamed and self-contained
 * implementations of {@link HttpEntity HttpEntity}.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
 *
 * @version $Revision: 496070 $
 * 
 * @since 4.0
 */
public abstract class AbstractHttpEntity implements HttpEntity {

    /**
     * The Content-Type header.
     * Returned by {@link #getContentType getContentType},
     * unless that method is overridden.
     */
    protected Header contentType;

    /**
     * The Content-Encoding header.
     * Returned by {@link #getContentEncoding getContentEncoding},
     * unless that method is overridden.
     */
    protected Header contentEncoding;

    /**
     * The 'chunked' flag.
     * Returned by {@link #isChunked isChunked},
     * unless that method is overridden.
     */
    protected boolean chunked;


    /**
     * Protected default constructor.
     * The attributes of the created object remain
     * <code>null</code> and <code>false</code>, respectively.
     */
    protected AbstractHttpEntity() {
        super();
    }


    /**
     * Obtains the Content-Type header.
     * The default implementation returns the value of the
     * {@link #contentType contentType} attribute.
     *
     * @return  the Content-Type header, or <code>null</code>
     */
    public Header getContentType() {
        return this.contentType;
    }

    
    /**
     * Obtains the Content-Encoding header.
     * The default implementation returns the value of the
     * {@link #contentEncoding contentEncoding} attribute.
     *
     * @return  the Content-Encoding header, or <code>null</code>
     */
    public Header getContentEncoding() {
        return this.contentEncoding;
    }

    /**
     * Obtains the 'chunked' flag.
     * The default implementation returns the value of the
     * {@link #chunked chunked} attribute.
     *
     * @return  the 'chunked' flag
     */
    public boolean isChunked() {
        return this.chunked;
    }

    
    /**
     * Specifies the Content-Type header.
     * The default implementation sets the value of the
     * {@link #contentType contentType} attribute.
     *
     * @param contentType       the new Content-Encoding header, or
     *                          <code>null</code> to unset
     */
    public void setContentType(final Header contentType) {
        this.contentType = contentType;
    }

    /**
     * Specifies the Content-Type header, as a string.
     * The default implementation calls
     * {@link #setContentType(Header) setContentType(Header)}.
     *
     * @param ctString     the new Content-Type header, or
     *                     <code>null</code> to unset
     */
    public void setContentType(final String ctString) {
        Header h = null;
        if (ctString != null) {
            h = new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, ctString);
        }
        setContentType(h);
    }
    

    /**
     * Specifies the Content-Encoding header.
     * The default implementation sets the value of the
     * {@link #contentEncoding contentEncoding} attribute.
     *
     * @param contentEncoding   the new Content-Encoding header, or
     *                          <code>null</code> to unset
     */
    public void setContentEncoding(final Header contentEncoding) {
        this.contentEncoding = contentEncoding;
    }

    /**
     * Specifies the Content-Encoding header, as a string.
     * The default implementation calls
     * {@link #setContentEncoding(Header) setContentEncoding(Header)}.
     *
     * @param ceString     the new Content-Encoding header, or
     *                     <code>null</code> to unset
     */
    public void setContentEncoding(final String ceString) {
        Header h = null;
        if (ceString != null) {
            h = new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_ENCODING, ceString);
        }
        setContentEncoding(h);
    }


    /**
     * Specifies the 'chunked' flag.
     * The default implementation sets the value of the
     * {@link #chunked chunked} attribute.
     *
     * @param b         the new 'chunked' flag
     */
    public void setChunked(boolean b) {
        this.chunked = b;
    }


    /**
     * Does not consume anything.
     * The default implementation does nothing if
     * {@link HttpEntity#isStreaming isStreaming}
     * returns <code>false</code>, and throws an exception
     * if it returns <code>true</code>.
     * This removes the burden of implementing
     * an empty method for non-streaming entities.
     *
     * @throws IOException      in case of an I/O problem
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException
     *          if a streaming subclass does not override this method
     */
    public void consumeContent()
        throws IOException, UnsupportedOperationException{
        if (isStreaming()) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException
                ("streaming entity does not implement consumeContent()");
        }
    } // consumeContent

    
} // class AbstractHttpEntity