AttachmentPart clearContent() Method

Description

The Javax.xml.soap.AttachmentPart.clearContent() method clears out the content of this AttachmentPart object. The MIME header portion is left untouched.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for javax.xml.soap.AttachmentPart.clearContent() method

public abstract void clearContent()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

This method does not return a value.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of javax.xml.soap.AttachmentPart.clearContent() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.xml.soap.*;

public class AttachmentPartDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      try {

         // create a new SOAPMessage
         SOAPMessage message = MessageFactory.newInstance().createMessage();

         // create a string as a new attachment 
         String attachment = "This is an attachment";

         // get the data handler and assign the attachment
         DataHandler handler = new DataHandler(attachment, "HandlerHeader");

         // create the attachment part
         AttachmentPart attachPart = message.createAttachmentPart(handler);

         // add content in the attachment
         attachPart.setContent("Attachment Content", "plain/text");

         // add the attachment part in the message
         message.addAttachmentPart(attachPart);

         // get the content of attachment part
         System.out.println("" + attachPart.getContent());

         // clear the content
         attachPart.clearContent();
         System.out.println("Content cleared.");


      } catch (Exception ex) {
         ex.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

If we compile the code and execute it, this will produce the following result −

Attachment Content
Content cleared.