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/*
* Segment.java February 2007
*
* Copyright (C) 2001, Niall Gallagher
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
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*/
package org.simpleframework.http.message;
import org.simpleframework.http.ContentDisposition;
import org.simpleframework.http.ContentType;
import java.util.List;
/**
* The Segment object represents a collection of header
* values that is followed by a body. This is used to represent the
* header of a multipart upload part. The raw value of each header
* for the part can be acquired using this interface, also the type
* and the disposition of the body can be determined from this.
*
* @author Niall Gallagher
*
* @see org.simpleframework.http.Part
*/
public interface Segment {
/**
* This method is used to determine the type of a part. Typically
* a part is either a text parameter or a file. If this is true
* then the content represented by the associated part is a file.
*
* @return this returns true if the associated part is a file
*/
boolean isFile();
/**
* This method is used to acquire the name of the part. Typically
* this is used when the part represents a text parameter rather
* than a file. However, this can also be used with a file part.
*
* @return this returns the name of the associated part
*/
String getName();
/**
* This method is used to acquire the file name of the part. This
* is used when the part represents a text parameter rather than
* a file. However, this can also be used with a file part.
*
* @return this returns the file name of the associated part
*/
String getFileName();
/**
* This can be used to get the value of the first message header
* that has the specified name. The value provided from this will
* be trimmed so there is no need to modify the value, also if
* the header name specified refers to a comma separated list of
* values the value returned is the first value in that list.
* This returns null if there is no HTTP message header.
*
* @param name the HTTP message header to get the value from
*
* @return this returns the value that the HTTP message header
*/
String getValue(String name);
/**
* This can be used to get the value of the first message header
* that has the specified name. The value provided from this will
* be trimmed so there is no need to modify the value, also if
* the header name specified refers to a comma separated list of
* values the value returned is the first value in that list.
* This returns null if there is no HTTP message header.
*
* @param name the HTTP message header to get the value from
* @param index acquires a specific header value from multiple
*
* @return this returns the value that the HTTP message header
*/
String getValue(String name, int index);
/**
* This can be used to get the values of HTTP message headers
* that have the specified name. This is a convenience method that
* will present that values as tokens extracted from the header.
* This has obvious performance benefits as it avoids having to
* deal with substring and trim calls.
*
* The tokens returned by this method are ordered according to
* there HTTP quality values, or "q" values, see RFC 2616 section
* 3.9. This also strips out the quality parameter from tokens
* returned. So "image/html; q=0.9" results in "image/html". If
* there are no "q" values present then order is by appearance.
*
* The result from this is either the trimmed header value, that
* is, the header value with no leading or trailing whitespace
* or an array of trimmed tokens ordered with the most preferred
* in the lower indexes, so index 0 is has highest preference.
*
* @param name the name of the headers that are to be retrieved
*
* @return ordered array of tokens extracted from the header(s)
*/
List getValues(String name);
/**
* This is a convenience method that can be used to determine the
* content type of the message body. This will determine whether
* there is a Content-Type header, if there is then
* this will parse that header and represent it as a typed object
* which will expose the various parts of the HTTP header.
*
* @return this returns the content type value if it exists
*/
ContentType getContentType();
/**
* This is a convenience method that can be used to determine the
* content type of the message body. This will determine whether
* there is a Content-Disposition header, if there is
* this will parse that header and represent it as a typed object
* which will expose the various parts of the HTTP header.
*
* @return this returns the content disposition value if it exists
*/
ContentDisposition getDisposition();
/**
* This is a convenience method that can be used to determine the
* content type of the message body. This will determine whether
* there is a Transfer-Encoding header, if there is
* then this will parse that header and return the first token in
* the comma separated list of values, which is the primary value.
*
* @return this returns the transfer encoding value if it exists
*/
String getTransferEncoding();
/**
* This is a convenience method that can be used to determine
* the length of the message body. This will determine if there
* is a Content-Length header, if it does then the
* length can be determined, if not then this returns -1.
*
* @return the content length, or -1 if it cannot be determined
*/
long getContentLength();
}