Interface Part

All Known Subinterfaces:

FilePart, FormFieldPart

public interface Part

Representation for a part in a "multipart/form-data" request.

The origin of a multipart request may be a browser form in which case each part is either a FormFieldPart or a FilePart.

Multipart requests may also be used outside a browser for data of any content type (for example, JSON, PDF, etc).

Since:

7.1

Author:

Brian Clozel, Sebastien Deleuze, Rossen Stoyanchev

See Also:

• RFC 7578 (multipart/form-data)
• RFC 2183 (Content-Disposition)
• HTML5 (multipart forms)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
InputStream	content()	Return the content for this part.
default void	delete()	Delete the underlying storage for this part.
HttpHeaders	headers()	Return the headers associated with the part.
String	name()	Return the name of the part in the multipart form.

Method Details

name

String name()

Return the name of the part in the multipart form.

Returns:

the name of the part, never null or empty

headers

HttpHeaders headers()

Return the headers associated with the part.

content

InputStream content()
             throws IOException

Return the content for this part.

Note that for a FormFieldPart the content may be accessed more easily via FormFieldPart.value().

Throws:

IOException

delete

default void delete()
             throws IOException

Delete the underlying storage for this part.

Throws:

IOException