HttpContent

All Superinterfaces:

StreamingContent

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractHttpContent, AbstractInputStreamContent, AbstractXmlHttpContent, AtomContent, ByteArrayContent, EmptyContent, FileContent, InputStreamContent, JsonHttpContent, MockHttpContent, MultipartContent, ProtoHttpContent, UrlEncodedContent, XmlHttpContent
```
public interface HttpContent
extends StreamingContent
```
Serializes HTTP request content into an output stream.
Implementations don't need to be thread-safe.

Since:

1.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`long`	`getLength()`	Returns the content length or less than zero if not known.
`java.lang.String`	`getType()`	Returns the content type or `null` for none.
`boolean`	`retrySupported()`	Returns whether or not retry is supported on this content type.
`void`	`writeTo(java.io.OutputStream out)`	Writes the byte content to the given output stream.

- Method Detail
  - getLength
```
long getLength()
        throws java.io.IOException
```
    Returns the content length or less than zero if not known.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException
  - getType
```
java.lang.String getType()
```
    Returns the content type or null for none.
  - retrySupported
```
boolean retrySupported()
```
    Returns whether or not retry is supported on this content type.
    
    Since:
    
    1.4
  - writeTo
```
void writeTo(java.io.OutputStream out)
      throws java.io.IOException
```
    Description copied from interface: StreamingContent
    
    Writes the byte content to the given output stream.
    Implementations must not close the output stream, and instead should flush the output stream. Some callers may assume that the output stream has not been closed, and will fail to work if it has been closed.
    
    Specified by:
    
    writeTo in interface StreamingContent
    
    Parameters:
    
    out - output stream
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException