java.lang.Object | +--javax.mail.Multipart | +--javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart
The MimeMultipart class is an implementation of the abstract Multipart class that uses MIME conventions for the multipart data.
A MimeMultipart is obtained from a MimePart whose primary type is "multipart" (by invoking the part'sgetContent()
method) or it can be created by a client as part of creating a new MimeMessage.
The default multipart subtype is "mixed". The other multipart subtypes, such as "alternative", "related", and so on, can be implemented as subclasses of MimeMultipart with additional methods to implement the additional semantics of that type of multipart content. The intent is that service providers, mail JavaBean writers and mail clients will write many such subclasses and their Command Beans, and will install them into the JavaBeans Activation Framework, so that any JavaMail implementation and its clients can transparently find and use these classes. Thus, a MIME multipart handler is treated just like any other type handler, thereby decoupling the process of providing multipart handlers from the JavaMail API. Lacking these additional MimeMultipart subclasses, all subtypes of MIME multipart data appear as MimeMultipart objects.
An application can directly construct a MIME multipart object of any subtype by using theMimeMultipart(String subtype)
constructor.
ds | |
parsed |
Fields inherited from class javax.mail.Multipart |
contentType,parent,parts |
MimeMultipart() Default constructor. | |
MimeMultipart(DataSource ds) Constructs a MimeMultipart object and its bodyparts from the given DataSource. | |
MimeMultipart(java.lang.String subtype) Construct a MimeMultipart object of the given subtype. |
getBodyPart(int index) Get the specified BodyPart. | |
getBodyPart(java.lang.String CID) Get the MimeBodyPart referred to by the given ContentID (CID). | |
getCount() Return the number of enclosed BodyPart objects. | |
setSubType(java.lang.String subtype) Set the subtype. | |
updateHeaders() Update headers. | |
writeTo(java.io.OutputStream os) Iterates through all the parts and outputs each Mime part separated by a boundary. |
Methods inherited from class javax.mail.Multipart |
addBodyPart,addBodyPart,getContentType,getParent,removeBodyPart,removeBodyPart,setMultipartDataSource,setParent |
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
protectedDataSourceds
protected booleanparsed
publicMimeMultipart()
contentType
field.MimeBodyParts may be added later.
publicMimeMultipart(java.lang.String subtype)
contentType
field.MimeBodyParts may be added later.
publicMimeMultipart(DataSource ds) throwsMessagingException
This constructor handles as a special case the situation where the given DataSource is a MultipartDataSource object. In this case, this method just invokes the superclass (i.e., Multipart) constructor that takes a MultipartDataSource object.
Otherwise, the DataSource is assumed to provide a MIME multipart byte stream. The parser extracts the "boundary" parameter from the content type of this DataSource, skips the 'preamble' and reads bytes till the terminating boundary and creates MimeBodyParts for each part of the stream.
ds
- DataSource, can be a MultipartDataSourcepublic voidsetSubType(java.lang.String subtype) throwsMessagingException
subtype
- Subtypepublic intgetCount() throwsMessagingException
getCount
in classMultipart
publicBodyPartgetBodyPart(int index) throwsMessagingException
getBodyPart
in classMultipart
index
- the index of the desired BodyPartMessagingException
- if no such BodyPart existspublicBodyPartgetBodyPart(java.lang.String CID) throwsMessagingException
CID
- the ContentID of the desired partprotected voidupdateHeaders() throwsMessagingException
updateHeaders
method on each of its children BodyParts.Note that the boundary parameter is already set up when a new and empty MimeMultipart object is created.
This method is called when thesaveChanges
method is invoked on the Message object containing this Multipart. This is typically done as part of the Message send process, however note that a client is free to call it any number of times. So if the header updating process is expensive for a specific MimeMultipart subclass, then it might itself want to track whether its internal state actually did change, and do the header updating only if necessary.
public voidwriteTo(java.io.OutputStream os) throws java.io.IOException,MessagingException
writeTo
in classMultipart
javax.mail.Multipart
java.io.IOException
- if an IO related exception occursMessagingException
-