javax.activation

Class URLDataSource

java.lang.Object

javax.activation.URLDataSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

DataSource

public class URLDataSource
extends Object
implements DataSource

Version:

$Rev: 467553 $ $Date: 2006-10-25 06:01:51 +0200 (Wed, 25 Oct 2006) $

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
URLDataSource(URL url) Creates a URLDataSource from a URL object.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getContentType() Returns the value of the URL content-type header field.
InputStream	getInputStream() Returns an InputStream obtained from the URL.
String	getName() Returns the file name of the URL object.
OutputStream	getOutputStream() Returns an OutputStream obtained from the URL.
URL	getURL() Returns the URL of the data source.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

URLDataSource

public URLDataSource(URL url)

Creates a URLDataSource from a URL object.

Method Detail

getContentType

public String getContentType()

Returns the value of the URL content-type header field. This method calls URL.openConnection() to obtain a connection from which to obtain the content type. If this fails or a getContentType() returns null then "application/octet-stream" is returned.

Specified by:

getContentType in interface DataSource

getName

public String getName()

Returns the file name of the URL object.

Specified by:

getName in interface DataSource

Returns:

the name as returned by URL.getFile()

getInputStream

public InputStream getInputStream()
                           throws IOException

Returns an InputStream obtained from the URL.

Specified by:

getInputStream in interface DataSource

Returns:

the InputStream from URL.openStream()

Throws:

IOException

getOutputStream

public OutputStream getOutputStream()
                             throws IOException

Returns an OutputStream obtained from the URL.

Specified by:

getOutputStream in interface DataSource

Throws:

IOException

getURL

public URL getURL()

Returns the URL of the data source.