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package javax.xml.soap;
import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;
/**
* <P>The root class for all SOAP messages. As transmitted on the "wire", a SOAP message is an XML
* document or a MIME message whose first body part is an XML/SOAP document.</P>
* <p/>
* <P>A <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object consists of a SOAP part and optionally one or more
* attachment parts. The SOAP part for a <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object is a <CODE>SOAPPart</CODE>
* object, which contains information used for message routing and identification, and which can
* contain application-specific content. All data in the SOAP Part of a message must be in XML
* format.</P>
* <p/>
* <P>A new <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object contains the following by default:</P>
* <p/>
* <UL> <LI>A <CODE>SOAPPart</CODE> object</LI>
* <p/>
* <LI>A <CODE>SOAPEnvelope</CODE> object</LI>
* <p/>
* <LI>A <CODE>SOAPBody</CODE> object</LI>
* <p/>
* <LI>A <CODE>SOAPHeader</CODE> object</LI> </UL> The SOAP part of a message can be retrieved by
* calling the method <CODE>SOAPMessage.getSOAPPart()</CODE>. The <CODE> SOAPEnvelope</CODE> object
* is retrieved from the <CODE> SOAPPart</CODE> object, and the <CODE>SOAPEnvelope</CODE> object is
* used to retrieve the <CODE>SOAPBody</CODE> and <CODE> SOAPHeader</CODE> objects. <PRE> SOAPPart
* sp = message.getSOAPPart(); SOAPEnvelope se = sp.getEnvelope(); SOAPBody sb = se.getBody();
* SOAPHeader sh = se.getHeader(); </PRE>
* <p/>
* <P>In addition to the mandatory <CODE>SOAPPart</CODE> object, a <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object
* may contain zero or more <CODE> AttachmentPart</CODE> objects, each of which contains
* application-specific data. The <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> interface provides methods for creating
* <CODE> AttachmentPart</CODE> objects and also for adding them to a <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE>
* object. A party that has received a <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object can examine its contents by
* retrieving individual attachment parts.</P>
* <p/>
* <P>Unlike the rest of a SOAP message, an attachment is not required to be in XML format and can
* therefore be anything from simple text to an image file. Consequently, any message content that
* is not in XML format must be in an <CODE> AttachmentPart</CODE> object.</P>
* <p/>
* <P>A <CODE>MessageFactory</CODE> object creates new <CODE> SOAPMessage</CODE> objects. If the
* <CODE>MessageFactory</CODE> object was initialized with a messaging Profile, it produces
* <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> objects that conform to that Profile. For example, a
* <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object created by a <CODE>MessageFactory</CODE> object initialized with
* the ebXML Profile will have the appropriate ebXML headers.</P>
*
* @see MessageFactory MessageFactory
* @see AttachmentPart AttachmentPart
*/
public abstract class SOAPMessage {
public SOAPMessage() {
}
/**
* Retrieves a description of this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object's content.
*
* @return a <CODE>String</CODE> describing the content of this message or <CODE>null</CODE> if
* no description has been set
* @see #setContentDescription(String) setContentDescription(java.lang.String)
*/
public abstract String getContentDescription();
/**
* Sets the description of this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object's content with the given
* description.
*
* @param description a <CODE>String</CODE> describing the content of this message
* @see #getContentDescription() getContentDescription()
*/
public abstract void setContentDescription(String description);
/**
* Gets the SOAP part of this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object.
* <p/>
* <p/>
* <P>If a <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object contains one or more attachments, the SOAP Part must
* be the first MIME body part in the message.</P>
*
* @return the <CODE>SOAPPart</CODE> object for this <CODE> SOAPMessage</CODE> object
*/
public abstract SOAPPart getSOAPPart();
/**
* Removes all <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> objects that have been added to this
* <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object.
* <p/>
* <P>This method does not touch the SOAP part.</P>
*/
public abstract void removeAllAttachments();
/**
* Gets a count of the number of attachments in this message. This count does not include the
* SOAP part.
*
* @return the number of <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> objects that are part of this
* <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object
*/
public abstract int countAttachments();
/**
* Retrieves all the <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> objects that are part of this
* <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object.
*
* @return an iterator over all the attachments in this message
*/
public abstract Iterator getAttachments();
/**
* Retrieves all the <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> objects that have header entries that match the
* specified headers. Note that a returned attachment could have headers in addition to those
* specified.
*
* @param headers a <CODE>MimeHeaders</CODE> object containing the MIME headers for which to
* search
* @return an iterator over all attachments that have a header that matches one of the given
* headers
*/
public abstract Iterator getAttachments(MimeHeaders headers);
/**
* Adds the given <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> object to this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object. An
* <CODE> AttachmentPart</CODE> object must be created before it can be added to a message.
*
* @param attachmentpart an <CODE> AttachmentPart</CODE> object that is to become part of this
* <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object
* @throws IllegalArgumentException
*
*/
public abstract void addAttachmentPart(AttachmentPart attachmentpart);
/**
* Creates a new empty <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> object. Note that the method
* <CODE>addAttachmentPart</CODE> must be called with this new <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE>
* object as the parameter in order for it to become an attachment to this
* <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object.
*
* @return a new <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> object that can be populated and added to this
* <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object
*/
public abstract AttachmentPart createAttachmentPart();
/**
* Creates an <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> object and populates it using the given
* <CODE>DataHandler</CODE> object.
*
* @param datahandler the <CODE> javax.activation.DataHandler</CODE> object that will generate
* the content for this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object
* @return a new <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> object that contains data generated by the given
* <CODE> DataHandler</CODE> object
* @throws IllegalArgumentException
* if there was a problem with the specified <CODE> DataHandler</CODE> object
* @see DataHandler DataHandler
* @see javax.activation.DataContentHandler DataContentHandler
*/
public AttachmentPart createAttachmentPart(DataHandler datahandler) {
AttachmentPart attachmentpart = createAttachmentPart();
attachmentpart.setDataHandler(datahandler);
return attachmentpart;
}
/**
* Returns all the transport-specific MIME headers for this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object in a
* transport-independent fashion.
*
* @return a <CODE>MimeHeaders</CODE> object containing the <CODE>MimeHeader</CODE> objects
*/
public abstract MimeHeaders getMimeHeaders();
/**
* Creates an <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> object and populates it with the specified data of the
* specified content type.
*
* @param content an <CODE>Object</CODE> containing the content for this
* <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object
* @param contentType a <CODE>String</CODE> object giving the type of content; examples are
* "text/xml", "text/plain", and "image/jpeg"
* @return a new <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> object that contains the given data
* @throws IllegalArgumentException
* if the contentType does not match the type of the content object, or if there was no
* <CODE> DataContentHandler</CODE> object for the given content object
* @see DataHandler DataHandler
* @see javax.activation.DataContentHandler DataContentHandler
*/
public AttachmentPart createAttachmentPart(Object content,
String contentType) {
AttachmentPart attachmentpart = createAttachmentPart();
attachmentpart.setContent(content, contentType);
return attachmentpart;
}
/**
* Updates this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object with all the changes that have been made to it.
* This method is called automatically when a message is sent or written to by the methods
* <CODE>ProviderConnection.send</CODE>, <CODE> SOAPConnection.call</CODE>, or <CODE>
* SOAPMessage.writeTo</CODE>. However, if changes are made to a message that was received or to
* one that has already been sent, the method <CODE>saveChanges</CODE> needs to be called
* explicitly in order to save the changes. The method <CODE>saveChanges</CODE> also generates
* any changes that can be read back (for example, a MessageId in profiles that support a
* message id). All MIME headers in a message that is created for sending purposes are
* guaranteed to have valid values only after <CODE>saveChanges</CODE> has been called.
* <p/>
* <P>In addition, this method marks the point at which the data from all constituent
* <CODE>AttachmentPart</CODE> objects are pulled into the message.</P>
*
* @throws SOAPException if there was a problem saving changes to this message.
*/
public abstract void saveChanges() throws SOAPException;
/**
* Indicates whether this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object has had the method
* <CODE>saveChanges</CODE> called on it.
*
* @return <CODE>true</CODE> if <CODE>saveChanges</CODE> has been called on this message at
* least once; <CODE> false</CODE> otherwise.
*/
public abstract boolean saveRequired();
/**
* Writes this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object to the given output stream. The externalization
* format is as defined by the SOAP 1.1 with Attachments specification.
* <p/>
* <P>If there are no attachments, just an XML stream is written out. For those messages that
* have attachments, <CODE>writeTo</CODE> writes a MIME-encoded byte stream.</P>
*
* @param out the <CODE>OutputStream</CODE> object to which this <CODE>SOAPMessage</CODE> object
* will be written
* @throws SOAPException if there was a problem in externalizing this SOAP message
* @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
*/
public abstract void writeTo(OutputStream out)
throws SOAPException, IOException;
/**
* Gets the SOAP Body contained in this <code>SOAPMessage</code> object.
*
* @return the <code>SOAPBody</code> object contained by this <code>SOAPMessage</code> object
* @throws SOAPException if the SOAP Body does not exist or cannot be retrieved
*/
public SOAPBody getSOAPBody() throws SOAPException {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
"getSOAPBody must be overridden in subclasses of SOAPMessage");
}
/**
* Gets the SOAP Header contained in this <code>SOAPMessage</code> object.
*
* @return the <code>SOAPHeader</code> object contained by this <code>SOAPMessage</code> object
* @throws SOAPException if the SOAP Header does not exist or cannot be retrieved
*/
public SOAPHeader getSOAPHeader() throws SOAPException {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
"getSOAPHeader must be overridden in subclasses of SOAPMessage");
}
/**
* Associates the specified value with the specified property. If there was already a value
* associated with this property, the old value is replaced.
* <p/>
* The valid property names include <code>WRITE_XML_DECLARATION</code> and
* <code>CHARACTER_SET_ENCODING</code>. All of these standard SAAJ properties are prefixed by
* "javax.xml.soap". Vendors may also add implementation specific properties. These properties
* must be prefixed with package names that are unique to the vendor.
* <p/>
* Setting the property <code>WRITE_XML_DECLARATION</code> to <code>"true"</code> will cause an
* XML Declaration to be written out at the start of the SOAP message. The default value of
* "false" suppresses this declaration.
* <p/>
* The property <code>CHARACTER_SET_ENCODING</code> defaults to the value <code>"utf-8"</code>
* which causes the SOAP message to be encoded using UTF-8. Setting
* <code>CHARACTER_SET_ENCODING</code> to <code>"utf-16"</code> causes the SOAP message to be
* encoded using UTF-16.
* <p/>
* Some implementations may allow encodings in addition to UTF-8 and UTF-16. Refer to your
* vendor's documentation for details.
*
* @param property the property with which the specified value is to be associated
* @param value the value to be associated with the specified property
* @throws SOAPException if the property name is not recognized
*/
public void setProperty(String property, Object value)
throws SOAPException {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
"setProperty must be overridden in subclasses of SOAPMessage");
}
/**
* Retrieves value of the specified property.
*
* @param property the name of the property to retrieve
* @return the value of the property or <code>null</code> if no such property exists
* @throws SOAPException if the property name is not recognized
*/
public Object getProperty(String property) throws SOAPException {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
"getProperty must be overridden in subclasses of SOAPMessage");
}
public abstract AttachmentPart getAttachment(SOAPElement soapelement)
throws SOAPException;
public abstract void removeAttachments(MimeHeaders mimeheaders);
/** Specifies the character type encoding for the SOAP Message. */
public static final String CHARACTER_SET_ENCODING
= "javax.xml.soap.character-set-encoding";
/** Specifies whether the SOAP Message should contain an XML declaration. */
public static final String WRITE_XML_DECLARATION
= "javax.xml.soap.write-xml-declaration";
}