org.eclipse.jetty.client.api

Interface ContentProvider

All Superinterfaces:

Iterable<ByteBuffer>

All Known Subinterfaces:

AsyncContentProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

ByteBufferContentProvider, BytesContentProvider, DeferredContentProvider, InputStreamContentProvider, OutputStreamContentProvider, PathContentProvider, StringContentProvider

public interface ContentProvider
extends Iterable<ByteBuffer>

ContentProvider provides a repeatable source of request content.

Implementations should return a new "view" over the same content every time Iterable.iterator() is invoked.

Applications should rely on utility classes such as ByteBufferContentProvider or PathContentProvider.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	getLength()

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Iterable

forEach, iterator, spliterator

Method Detail

getLength

long getLength()

Returns:

the content length, if known, or -1 if the content length is unknown