modules/axiom-api/src/main/java/org/apache/axiom/attachments/AttachmentsDelegate.java

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package org.apache.axiom.attachments;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.mail.internet.ContentType;

import org.apache.axiom.attachments.lifecycle.LifecycleManager;
import org.apache.axiom.om.OMException;

/**
 * {@link Attachments} delegate. An {@link Attachments} object may actually represent two fairly
 * different things (depending on the constructor that is used):
 * <ul>
 * <li>A MIME multipart message that comprises a root part and a set of attachment parts. Axiom uses
 * deferred parsing to process the message, i.e. the parts and their content are loaded on-demand.
 * <li>A programmatically created set of attachment parts. In that case, the root part is not
 * included.
 * </ul>
 * Since the behavior of the {@link Attachments} instance is fairly different in the two cases, this
 * should be considered a flaw in the API design. Unfortunately it is not possible to fix this
 * without breaking existing code. In particular, in Axis2 the {@link Attachments} API is heavily
 * used by application code. Therefore a delegation pattern is used so that internally these two
 * cases can be represented using distinct classes.
 * <p>
 * Note that this class is intentionally not public. It is for <b>internal use only</b>. However, in
 * a later Axiom version we may want to refactor this API to make it public, in which case
 * {@link Attachments} would simply become a legacy adapter.
 */
abstract class AttachmentsDelegate {
    abstract ContentType getContentType();
    abstract LifecycleManager getLifecycleManager();
    abstract void setLifecycleManager(LifecycleManager manager);
    abstract DataHandler getDataHandler(String contentID);
    abstract void addDataHandler(String contentID, DataHandler dataHandler);
    abstract void removeDataHandler(String blobContentID);
    abstract InputStream getRootPartInputStream() throws OMException;
    abstract String getRootPartContentID();
    abstract String getRootPartContentType();
    abstract IncomingAttachmentStreams getIncomingAttachmentStreams();
    abstract Set getContentIDs(boolean fetchAll);
    abstract Map getMap();
    abstract long getContentLength() throws IOException;
}