org.apache.james.mailbox.model

Interface Content

All Known Subinterfaces:

Headers, InputStreamContent, MessageResult.Header, MimeDescriptor

All Known Implementing Classes:

ByteContent, FullByteContent, InputStreamContent, LazyMimeDescriptor, MimeDescriptorImpl, ResultHeader

public interface Content

IMAP needs to know the size of the content before it starts to write it out. This interface allows direct writing whilst exposing total size.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
InputStream	getInputStream() Return the content as InputStream
long	size() Size (in octets) of the content.

Method Detail

getInputStream

InputStream getInputStream()
                           throws IOException

Return the content as InputStream

Returns:

content

Throws:

IOException

size

long size()
          throws MailboxException

Size (in octets) of the content.

Returns:

number of octets to be written

Throws:

MessagingException

MailboxException