Class MultipartPostMethod

java.lang.Object

org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase

org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.ExpectContinueMethod

org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.MultipartPostMethod

All Implemented Interfaces:

HttpMethod

public class MultipartPostMethod
extends ExpectContinueMethod

Deprecated.

Use MultipartRequestEntity in conjunction with PostMethod instead.

Implements the HTTP multipart POST method.

The HTTP multipart POST method is defined in section 3.3 of RFC1867:

The media-type multipart/form-data follows the rules of all multipart MIME data streams as outlined in RFC 1521. The multipart/form-data contains a series of parts. Each part is expected to contain a content-disposition header where the value is "form-data" and a name attribute specifies the field name within the form, e.g., 'content-disposition: form-data; name="xxxxx"', where xxxxx is the field name corresponding to that field. Field names originally in non-ASCII character sets may be encoded using the method outlined in RFC 1522.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Matthew Albright, Jeff Dever, Adrian Sutton, Mark Diggory, Mike Bowler, Oleg Kalnichevski

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	MULTIPART_FORM_CONTENT_TYPE	Deprecated. The Content-Type for multipart/form-data.

Fields inherited from class HttpMethodBase

effectiveVersion, statusLine

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
MultipartPostMethod()	Deprecated. No-arg constructor.
MultipartPostMethod(String uri)	Deprecated. Constructor specifying a URI.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected void	addContentLengthRequestHeader(HttpState state, HttpConnection conn)	Deprecated. Adds a Content-Length request header, as long as no Content-Length request header already exists.
protected void	addContentTypeRequestHeader(HttpState state, HttpConnection conn)	Deprecated. Adds a Content-Type request header.
void	addParameter(String parameterName, File parameterFile)	Deprecated. Adds a binary file part
void	addParameter(String parameterName, String parameterValue)	Deprecated. Adds a text field part
void	addParameter(String parameterName, String fileName, File parameterFile)	Deprecated. Adds a binary file part with the given file name
void	addPart(Part part)	Deprecated. Adds a part.
protected void	addRequestHeaders(HttpState state, HttpConnection conn)	Deprecated. Populates the request headers map to with additional headers to be submitted to the given HttpConnection.
String	getName()	Deprecated. Returns "POST".
Part[]	getParts()	Deprecated. Returns all parts.
protected long	getRequestContentLength()	Deprecated. Return the length of the request body.
protected boolean	hasRequestContent()	Deprecated. Returns true
void	recycle()	Deprecated. no longer supported and will be removed in the future version of HttpClient
protected boolean	writeRequestBody(HttpState state, HttpConnection conn)	Deprecated. Writes the request body to the given connection.

Methods inherited from class ExpectContinueMethod

getUseExpectHeader, setUseExpectHeader

Methods inherited from class HttpMethodBase

abort, addCookieRequestHeader, addHostRequestHeader, addProxyConnectionHeader, addRequestHeader, addRequestHeader, addResponseFooter, addUserAgentRequestHeader, checkNotUsed, checkUsed, execute, generateRequestLine, getAuthenticationRealm, getContentCharSet, getDoAuthentication, getEffectiveVersion, getFollowRedirects, getHostAuthState, getHostConfiguration, getMethodRetryHandler, getParams, getPath, getProxyAuthenticationRealm, getProxyAuthState, getQueryString, getRecoverableExceptionCount, getRequestCharSet, getRequestHeader, getRequestHeaderGroup, getRequestHeaders, getRequestHeaders, getResponseBody, getResponseBody, getResponseBodyAsStream, getResponseBodyAsString, getResponseBodyAsString, getResponseCharSet, getResponseContentLength, getResponseFooter, getResponseFooters, getResponseHeader, getResponseHeaderGroup, getResponseHeaders, getResponseHeaders, getResponseStream, getResponseTrailerHeaderGroup, getStatusCode, getStatusLine, getStatusText, getURI, hasBeenUsed, isAborted, isConnectionCloseForced, isHttp11, isRequestSent, isStrictMode, processCookieHeaders, processResponseBody, processResponseHeaders, processStatusLine, readResponse, readResponseBody, readResponseHeaders, readStatusLine, releaseConnection, removeRequestHeader, removeRequestHeader, responseBodyConsumed, setConnectionCloseForced, setDoAuthentication, setFollowRedirects, setHostConfiguration, setHttp11, setMethodRetryHandler, setParams, setPath, setQueryString, setQueryString, setRequestHeader, setRequestHeader, setResponseStream, setStrictMode, setURI, shouldCloseConnection, validate, writeRequest, writeRequestHeaders, writeRequestLine

Methods inherited from class Object

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

Field Details

MULTIPART_FORM_CONTENT_TYPE

public static final String MULTIPART_FORM_CONTENT_TYPE

Deprecated.

The Content-Type for multipart/form-data.

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

Constructor Details

MultipartPostMethod

public MultipartPostMethod()

Deprecated.

No-arg constructor.

MultipartPostMethod

public MultipartPostMethod(String uri)

Deprecated.

Constructor specifying a URI.

Parameters:

uri - either an absolute or relative URI

Method Details

hasRequestContent

protected boolean hasRequestContent()

Deprecated.

Returns true

Specified by:

hasRequestContent in class ExpectContinueMethod

Returns:

true

Since:

2.0beta1

getName

public String getName()

Deprecated.

Returns "POST".

Specified by:

getName in interface HttpMethod

Specified by:

getName in class HttpMethodBase

Returns:

"POST"

addParameter

public void addParameter(String parameterName,
 String parameterValue)

Deprecated.

Adds a text field part

Parameters:

parameterName - The name of the parameter.

parameterValue - The value of the parameter.

addParameter

public void addParameter(String parameterName,
 File parameterFile)
                  throws FileNotFoundException

Deprecated.

Adds a binary file part

Parameters:

parameterName - The name of the parameter

parameterFile - The name of the file.

Throws:

FileNotFoundException - If the file cannot be found.

addParameter

public void addParameter(String parameterName,
 String fileName,
 File parameterFile)
                  throws FileNotFoundException

Deprecated.

Adds a binary file part with the given file name

Parameters:

parameterName - The name of the parameter

fileName - The file name

parameterFile - The file

Throws:

FileNotFoundException - If the file cannot be found.

addPart

public void addPart(Part part)

Deprecated.

Adds a part.

Parameters:

part - The part to add.

getParts

public Part[] getParts()

Deprecated.

Returns all parts.

Returns:

an array of containing all parts

addContentLengthRequestHeader

protected void addContentLengthRequestHeader(HttpState state,
 HttpConnection conn)
                                      throws IOException,
HttpException

Deprecated.

Adds a Content-Length request header, as long as no Content-Length request header already exists.

Parameters:

state - current state of http requests

conn - the connection to use for I/O

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O (transport) error occurs. Some transport exceptions can be recovered from.

HttpException - if a protocol exception occurs. Usually protocol exceptions cannot be recovered from.

Since:

3.0

addContentTypeRequestHeader

protected void addContentTypeRequestHeader(HttpState state,
 HttpConnection conn)
                                    throws IOException,
HttpException

Deprecated.

Adds a Content-Type request header.

Parameters:

state - current state of http requests

conn - the connection to use for I/O

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O (transport) error occurs. Some transport exceptions can be recovered from.

HttpException - if a protocol exception occurs. Usually protocol exceptions cannot be recovered from.

Since:

3.0

addRequestHeaders

protected void addRequestHeaders(HttpState state,
 HttpConnection conn)
                          throws IOException,
HttpException

Deprecated.

Populates the request headers map to with additional headers to be submitted to the given HttpConnection.

This implementation adds tt>Content-Length and Content-Type headers, when appropriate.

Subclasses may want to override this method to to add additional headers, and may choose to invoke this implementation (via super) to add the "standard" headers.

Overrides:

addRequestHeaders in class ExpectContinueMethod

Parameters:

state - the state information associated with this method

conn - the connection used to execute this HTTP method

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O (transport) error occurs. Some transport exceptions can be recovered from.

HttpException - if a protocol exception occurs. Usually protocol exceptions cannot be recovered from.

See Also:

• HttpMethodBase.writeRequestHeaders(HttpState, HttpConnection)

writeRequestBody

protected boolean writeRequestBody(HttpState state,
 HttpConnection conn)
                            throws IOException,
HttpException

Deprecated.

Writes the request body to the given connection.

Overrides:

writeRequestBody in class HttpMethodBase

Parameters:

state - the state information associated with this method

conn - the connection used to execute this HTTP method

Returns:

true

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O (transport) error occurs. Some transport exceptions can be recovered from.

HttpException - if a protocol exception occurs. Usually protocol exceptions cannot be recovered from.

getRequestContentLength

protected long getRequestContentLength()
                                throws IOException

Deprecated.

Return the length of the request body.

Once this method has been invoked, the request parameters cannot be altered until the method is recycled.

Returns:

The request content length.

Throws:

IOException

recycle

public void recycle()

Deprecated.

no longer supported and will be removed in the future version of HttpClient

Recycles the HTTP method so that it can be used again. Note that all of the instance variables will be reset once this method has been called. This method will also release the connection being used by this HTTP method.

Specified by:

recycle in interface HttpMethod

Overrides:

recycle in class HttpMethodBase

See Also:

• HttpMethodBase.releaseConnection()