com.bradmcevoy.http

Interface GetableResource

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<Resource>, Resource

All Known Subinterfaces:

FileResource, FolderResource, PostableResource

All Known Implementing Classes:

StaticResource

public interface GetableResource
extends Resource

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Long	getContentLength() The length of the content in this resource.
String	getContentType(String accepts) Given a comma seperated listed of preferred content types acceptable for a client, return one content type which is the best.
Long	getMaxAgeSeconds() How many seconds to allow the content to be cached for, or null if caching is not allowed
void	sendContent(OutputStream out, Range range, Map<String,String> params) If range not null is a Partial content request

Methods inherited from interface com.bradmcevoy.http.Resource

authenticate, authorise, checkRedirect, getModifiedDate, getName, getRealm, getUniqueId

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

sendContent

void sendContent(OutputStream out,
               Range range,
               Map<String,String> params)
                 throws IOException

If range not null is a Partial content request

Throws:

IOException

getMaxAgeSeconds

Long getMaxAgeSeconds()

How many seconds to allow the content to be cached for, or null if caching is not allowed

getContentType

String getContentType(String accepts)

Given a comma seperated listed of preferred content types acceptable for a client, return one content type which is the best. Returns the most preferred MIME type. Eg text/html, image/jpeg, etc Must be IANA registered accepts is the accepts header. Eg: Accept: text/*, text/html, text/html;level=1 See - http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ for a list of content types See - http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html for details about the accept header If you can't handle accepts interpretation, just return a single content type - Eg text/html

getContentLength

Long getContentLength()

The length of the content in this resource. If unknown return nnull