SingleBody.java

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package org.apache.james.mime4j.dom;

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

/**
 * Abstract implementation of a single message body; that is, a body that does
 * not contain (directly or indirectly) any other child bodies. It also provides
 * the parent functionality required by bodies.
 */
public abstract class SingleBody implements Body {

    private Entity parent = null;

    /**
     * Sole constructor.
     */
    protected SingleBody() {
    }

    /**
     * @see org.apache.james.mime4j.dom.Body#getParent()
     */
    public Entity getParent() {
        return parent;
    }

    /**
     * @see org.apache.james.mime4j.dom.Body#setParent(org.apache.james.mime4j.dom.Entity)
     */
    public void setParent(Entity parent) {
        this.parent = parent;
    }

    /**
     * Gets a <code>InputStream</code> which reads the bytes of the body.
     *
     * @return the stream, transfer decoded
     * @throws IOException
     *             on I/O errors.
     */
    public abstract InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Writes this single body to the given stream. The default implementation copies
     * the input stream obtained by {@link #getInputStream()} to the specified output
     * stream. May be overwritten by a subclass to improve performance.
     *
     * @param out
     *            the stream to write to.
     * @throws IOException
     *             in case of an I/O error
     */
    public void writeTo(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
        if (out == null)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();

        InputStream in = getInputStream();
        SingleBody.copy(in, out);
        in.close();
    }

    /**
     * Returns a copy of this <code>SingleBody</code> (optional operation).
     * <p>
     * The general contract of this method is as follows:
     * <ul>
     * <li>Invoking {@link #getParent()} on the copy returns <code>null</code>.
     * That means that the copy is detached from the parent entity of this
     * <code>SingleBody</code>. The copy may get attached to a different
     * entity later on.</li>
     * <li>The underlying content does not have to be copied. Instead it may be
     * shared between multiple copies of a <code>SingleBody</code>.</li>
     * <li>If the underlying content is shared by multiple copies the
     * implementation has to make sure that the content gets deleted when the
     * last copy gets disposed of (and not before that).</li>
     * </ul>
     * <p>
     * This implementation always throws an
     * <code>UnsupportedOperationException</code>.
     *
     * @return a copy of this <code>SingleBody</code>.
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException
     *             if the <code>copy</code> operation is not supported by this
     *             single body.
     */
    public SingleBody copy() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    /**
     * Subclasses should override this method if they have allocated resources
     * that need to be freed explicitly (e.g. cannot be simply reclaimed by the
     * garbage collector).
     *
     * The default implementation of this method does nothing.
     *
     * @see org.apache.james.mime4j.dom.Disposable#dispose()
     */
    public void dispose() {
    }

    static final int DEFAULT_ENCODING_BUFFER_SIZE = 1024;

    /**
     * Copies the contents of one stream to the other.
     * @param in not null
     * @param out not null
     * @throws IOException
     */
    private static void copy(final InputStream in, final OutputStream out) throws IOException {
        final byte[] buffer = new byte[DEFAULT_ENCODING_BUFFER_SIZE];
        int inputLength;
        while (-1 != (inputLength = in.read(buffer))) {
            out.write(buffer, 0, inputLength);
        }
    }

}