src/org/apache/http/entity/StringEntity.java

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package org.apache.http.entity;

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

import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;

/**
 *  An entity whose content is retrieved from a string.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
 *
 * @version $Revision: 618367 $
 * 
 * @since 4.0
 *
 * @deprecated Please use {@link java.net.URL#openConnection} instead.
 *     Please visit <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html">this webpage</a>
 *     for further details.
 */
@Deprecated
public class StringEntity extends AbstractHttpEntity implements Cloneable {

    protected final byte[] content;

    public StringEntity(final String s, String charset) 
            throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        super();
        if (s == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Source string may not be null");
        }
        if (charset == null) {
            charset = HTTP.DEFAULT_CONTENT_CHARSET;
        }
        this.content = s.getBytes(charset);
        setContentType(HTTP.PLAIN_TEXT_TYPE + HTTP.CHARSET_PARAM + charset);
    }

    public StringEntity(final String s) 
            throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        this(s, null);
    }

    public boolean isRepeatable() {
        return true;
    }

    public long getContentLength() {
        return this.content.length;
    }
    
    public InputStream getContent() throws IOException {
        return new ByteArrayInputStream(this.content);
    }
    
    public void writeTo(final OutputStream outstream) throws IOException {
        if (outstream == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Output stream may not be null");
        }
        outstream.write(this.content);
        outstream.flush();
    }

    /**
     * Tells that this entity is not streaming.
     *
     * @return <code>false</code>
     */
    public boolean isStreaming() {
        return false;
    }

    public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        return super.clone();
    }

} // class StringEntity