Class URLDataSource

app/src/main/java/javax/activation/URLDataSource.java:30–120

The URLDataSource class provides an object that wraps a URL object in a DataSource interface. URLDataSource simplifies the handling of data described by URLs within Jakarta Activation because this class can be used to create new DataHandlers. NOTE: The DataHandler object creates a UR

 * @see javax.activation.DataHandler
 */
public class URLDataSource implements DataSource {
    private URL url = null;
    private URLConnection url_conn = null;

    /**
     * URLDataSource constructor. The URLDataSource class will
     * not open a connection to the URL until a method requiring it
     * to do so is called.
     *
     * @param url The URL to be encapsulated in this object.
     */
    public URLDataSource(URL url) {
	this.url = url;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the value of the URL content-type header field.
     * It calls the URL's <code>URLConnection.getContentType</code> method
     * after retrieving a URLConnection object.
     * <i>Note: this method attempts to call the <code>openConnection</code>
     * method on the URL. If this method fails, or if a content type is not
     * returned from the URLConnection, getContentType returns
     * "application/octet-stream" as the content type.</i>
     *
     * @return the content type.
     */
    public String getContentType() {
	String type = null;

	try {
	    if (url_conn == null)
		url_conn = url.openConnection();
	} catch (IOException e) { }
	
	if (url_conn != null)
	    type = url_conn.getContentType();

	if (type == null)
	    type = "application/octet-stream";
	
	return type;
    }

    /**
     * Calls the <code>getFile</code> method on the URL used to
     * instantiate the object.
     *
     * @return the result of calling the URL's getFile method.
     */
    public String getName() {
	return url.getFile();
    }

    /**
     * The getInputStream method from the URL. Calls the
     * <code>openStream</code> method on the URL.
     *
     * @return the InputStream.