jakarta.activation

Class URLDataSource

java.lang.Object

jakarta.activation.URLDataSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

DataSource

public class URLDataSource
extends Object
implements DataSource

The URLDataSource class provides an object that wraps a URL object in a DataSource interface. URLDataSource simplifies the handling of data described by URLs within Jakarta Activation because this class can be used to create new DataHandlers. NOTE: The DataHandler object creates a URLDataSource internally, when it is constructed with a URL.

See Also:

DataSource, DataHandler

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
URLDataSource(URL url) URLDataSource constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getContentType() Returns the value of the URL content-type header field.
InputStream	getInputStream() The getInputStream method from the URL.
String	getName() Calls the getFile method on the URL used to instantiate the object.
OutputStream	getOutputStream() The getOutputStream method from the URL.
URL	getURL() Return the URL used to create this DataSource.

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)

URLDataSource constructor. The URLDataSource class will not open a connection to the URL until a method requiring it to do so is called.

Parameters:

url - The URL to be encapsulated in this object.

Method Detail

getContentType

public String getContentType()

Returns the value of the URL content-type header field. It calls the URL's URLConnection.getContentType method after retrieving a URLConnection object. Note: this method attempts to call the openConnection method on the URL. If this method fails, or if a content type is not returned from the URLConnection, getContentType returns "application/octet-stream" as the content type.

Specified by:

getContentType in interface DataSource

Returns:

the content type.

getName

public String getName()

Calls the getFile method on the URL used to instantiate the object.

Specified by:

getName in interface DataSource

Returns:

the result of calling the URL's getFile method.

getInputStream

public InputStream getInputStream()
                           throws IOException

The getInputStream method from the URL. Calls the openStream method on the URL.

Specified by:

getInputStream in interface DataSource

Returns:

the InputStream.

Throws:

IOException - for failures creating the InputStream

getOutputStream

public OutputStream getOutputStream()
                             throws IOException

The getOutputStream method from the URL. First an attempt is made to get the URLConnection object for the URL. If that succeeds, the getOutputStream method on the URLConnection is returned.

Specified by:

getOutputStream in interface DataSource

Returns:

the OutputStream.

Throws:

IOException - for failures creating the OutputStream

getURL

public URL getURL()

Return the URL used to create this DataSource.

Returns:

The URL.