MediaGenerator.java

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package com.google.gdata.wireformats.output.media;

import com.google.gdata.data.media.MediaSource;
import com.google.gdata.wireformats.AltFormat;
import com.google.gdata.wireformats.output.OutputGenerator;
import com.google.gdata.wireformats.output.OutputProperties;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * The MediaGenerator class implements the {@link OutputGenerator} interface
 * for generating media data for a service that supports media content.  Support
 * for media multipart documents is provided by the 
 * {@link MediaMultipartGenerator} class.
 *
 * 
 */

public class MediaGenerator implements OutputGenerator<MediaSource> {

  public AltFormat getAltFormat() {
    return AltFormat.MEDIA;
  }

  public Class<MediaSource> getSourceType() {
    return MediaSource.class;
  }

  /**
   * Generates output for requests that target media resources.
   */
  public void generate(OutputStream contentStream,
                       OutputProperties request,
                       MediaSource source)
      throws IOException {

    MediaSource.Output.writeTo(source, contentStream);
  }
}