org.apache.http.entity
Class ContentType

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.http.entity.ContentType

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

@Immutable
public final class ContentType
extends Object
implements Serializable

Content type information consisting of a MIME type and an optional charset.

This class makes no attempts to verify validity of the MIME type. The input parameters of the create(String, String) method, however, may not contain characters <">, <;>, <,> reserved by the HTTP specification.

Since:

4.2

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

static ContentType	APPLICATION_ATOM_XML
static ContentType	APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED
static ContentType	APPLICATION_JSON
static ContentType	APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM
static ContentType	APPLICATION_SVG_XML
static ContentType	APPLICATION_XHTML_XML
static ContentType	APPLICATION_XML
static ContentType	DEFAULT_BINARY
static ContentType	DEFAULT_TEXT
static ContentType	MULTIPART_FORM_DATA
static ContentType	TEXT_HTML
static ContentType	TEXT_PLAIN
static ContentType	TEXT_XML
static ContentType	WILDCARD

Method Summary

static ContentType	create(String mimeType) Creates a new instance of ContentType without a charset.
static ContentType	create(String mimeType, Charset charset) Creates a new instance of ContentType.
static ContentType	create(String mimeType, String charset) Creates a new instance of ContentType.
static ContentType	get(HttpEntity entity) Extracts Content-Type value from HttpEntity exactly as specified by the Content-Type header of the entity.
Charset	getCharset()
static ContentType	getLenient(HttpEntity entity) Extracts Content-Type value from HttpEntity.
static ContentType	getLenientOrDefault(HttpEntity entity) Extracts Content-Type value from HttpEntity or returns the default value DEFAULT_TEXT if not explicitly specified or incorrect (could not be parsed).
String	getMimeType()
static ContentType	getOrDefault(HttpEntity entity) Extracts Content-Type value from HttpEntity or returns the default value DEFAULT_TEXT if not explicitly specified.
String	getParameter(String name)
static ContentType	parse(String s) Parses textual representation of Content-Type value.
String	toString() Generates textual representation of this content type which can be used as the value of a Content-Type header.
ContentType	withCharset(Charset charset) Creates a new instance with this MIME type and the given Charset.
ContentType	withCharset(String charset) Creates a new instance with this MIME type and the given Charset name.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

APPLICATION_ATOM_XML

public static final ContentType APPLICATION_ATOM_XML

APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED

public static final ContentType APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED

APPLICATION_JSON

public static final ContentType APPLICATION_JSON

APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM

public static final ContentType APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM

APPLICATION_SVG_XML

public static final ContentType APPLICATION_SVG_XML

APPLICATION_XHTML_XML

public static final ContentType APPLICATION_XHTML_XML

APPLICATION_XML

public static final ContentType APPLICATION_XML

MULTIPART_FORM_DATA

public static final ContentType MULTIPART_FORM_DATA

TEXT_HTML

public static final ContentType TEXT_HTML

TEXT_PLAIN

public static final ContentType TEXT_PLAIN

TEXT_XML

public static final ContentType TEXT_XML

WILDCARD

public static final ContentType WILDCARD

DEFAULT_TEXT

public static final ContentType DEFAULT_TEXT

DEFAULT_BINARY

public static final ContentType DEFAULT_BINARY

Method Detail

getMimeType

public String getMimeType()

getCharset

public Charset getCharset()

getParameter

public String getParameter(String name)

Since:

4.3

toString

public String toString()

Generates textual representation of this content type which can be used as the value of a Content-Type header.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

create

public static ContentType create(String mimeType,
                                 Charset charset)

Creates a new instance of ContentType.

Parameters:

mimeType - MIME type. It may not be null or empty. It may not contain characters <">, <;>, <,> reserved by the HTTP specification.

charset - charset.

Returns:

content type

create

public static ContentType create(String mimeType)

Creates a new instance of ContentType without a charset.

Parameters:

mimeType - MIME type. It may not be null or empty. It may not contain characters <">, <;>, <,> reserved by the HTTP specification.

Returns:

content type

create

public static ContentType create(String mimeType,
                                 String charset)
                          throws UnsupportedCharsetException

Creates a new instance of ContentType.

Parameters:

mimeType - MIME type. It may not be null or empty. It may not contain characters <">, <;>, <,> reserved by the HTTP specification.

charset - charset. It may not contain characters <">, <;>, <,> reserved by the HTTP specification. This parameter is optional.

Returns:

content type

Throws:

UnsupportedCharsetException - Thrown when the named charset is not available in this instance of the Java virtual machine

parse

public static ContentType parse(String s)
                         throws ParseException,
                                UnsupportedCharsetException

Parses textual representation of Content-Type value.

Parameters:

s - text

Returns:

content type

Throws:

ParseException - if the given text does not represent a valid Content-Type value.

UnsupportedCharsetException - Thrown when the named charset is not available in this instance of the Java virtual machine

get

public static ContentType get(HttpEntity entity)
                       throws ParseException,
                              UnsupportedCharsetException

Extracts Content-Type value from HttpEntity exactly as specified by the Content-Type header of the entity. Returns null if not specified.

Parameters:

entity - HTTP entity

Returns:

content type

Throws:

ParseException - if the given text does not represent a valid Content-Type value.

UnsupportedCharsetException - Thrown when the named charset is not available in this instance of the Java virtual machine

getLenient

public static ContentType getLenient(HttpEntity entity)

Extracts Content-Type value from HttpEntity. Returns null if not specified or incorrect (could not be parsed)..

Parameters:

entity - HTTP entity

Returns:

content type

Since:

4.4

getOrDefault

public static ContentType getOrDefault(HttpEntity entity)
                                throws ParseException,
                                       UnsupportedCharsetException

Extracts Content-Type value from HttpEntity or returns the default value DEFAULT_TEXT if not explicitly specified.

Parameters:

entity - HTTP entity

Returns:

content type

Throws:

ParseException - if the given text does not represent a valid Content-Type value.

UnsupportedCharsetException - Thrown when the named charset is not available in this instance of the Java virtual machine

getLenientOrDefault

public static ContentType getLenientOrDefault(HttpEntity entity)
                                       throws ParseException,
                                              UnsupportedCharsetException

Extracts Content-Type value from HttpEntity or returns the default value DEFAULT_TEXT if not explicitly specified or incorrect (could not be parsed).

Parameters:

entity - HTTP entity

Returns:

content type

Throws:

ParseException

UnsupportedCharsetException

Since:

4.4

withCharset

public ContentType withCharset(Charset charset)

Creates a new instance with this MIME type and the given Charset.

Parameters:

charset - charset

Returns:

a new instance with this MIME type and the given Charset.

Since:

4.3

withCharset

public ContentType withCharset(String charset)

Creates a new instance with this MIME type and the given Charset name.

Parameters:

charset - name

Returns:

a new instance with this MIME type and the given Charset name.

Throws:

UnsupportedCharsetException - Thrown when the named charset is not available in this instance of the Java virtual machine

Since:

4.3