AttachmentPart getRawContent() Method

Description

The Javax.xml.soap.AttachmentPart.getRawContent() method gets the content of this AttachmentPart object as an InputStream as if a call had been made to getContent and no DataContentHandler had been registered for the content-type of this AttachmentPart.

Declaration

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

public abstract InputStream getRawContent()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

This method returns an InputStream from which the raw data contained by the AttachmentPart can be accessed.

Exception

SOAPException − if there is no content set into this AttachmentPart object or if there was a data transformation error.

Example

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

package com.tutorialspoint;

import com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.util.Base64;
import com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.util.ByteInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;
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();

         // add raw content
         byte[] encoded = Base64.encode(attachment.getBytes());
         ByteInputStream bis =
            new ByteInputStream(encoded, 0, encoded.length);
         attachPart.setRawContent(bis, "plain/text");

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

         // read the raw content
         InputStream content = attachPart.getRawContent();
         for (int i = 0; i < content.available(); i++) {
            System.out.print("" + (char) content.read());
         }
      } 
      catch (Exception ex) {
         ex.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

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

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