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javax.media.protocol
Class ContentDescriptor

java.lang.Object
  javax.media.protocol.ContentDescriptor

public class ContentDescriptor

extends java.lang.Object

A ContentDescriptor identifies media data containers.

See Also:

SourceStream

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	CONTENT_UNKNOWN
protected java.lang.String	typeName

Constructor Summary

ContentDescriptor(java.lang.String cdName)
Create a content descriptor with the specified name.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getContentType() Obtain a string that represents the content-name for this descriptor.
static java.lang.String	mimeTypeToPackageName(java.lang.String mimeType) Map a MIME content-type to an equivalent string of class-name components.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

CONTENT_UNKNOWN

public static final java.lang.String CONTENT_UNKNOWN

See Also:

Constant Field Values

typeName

protected java.lang.String typeName

Constructor Detail

ContentDescriptor

public ContentDescriptor(java.lang.String cdName)

Create a content descriptor with the specified name.

To create a ContentDescriptor from a MIME type, use the mimeTypeToPackageName static member.

Parameters:

cdName - The name of the content-type.

Method Detail

getContentType

public java.lang.String getContentType()

Obtain a string that represents the content-name for this descriptor. It is identical to the string passed to the constructor.

Returns:

The content-type name.

mimeTypeToPackageName

public static final java.lang.String mimeTypeToPackageName(java.lang.String mimeType)

Map a MIME content-type to an equivalent string of class-name components.

The MIME type is mapped to a string by:

1. Replacing all slashes with a period.
2. Converting all alphabetic characters to lower case.
3. Converting all non-alpha-numeric characters other than periods to underscores (_).

For example, "text/html" would be converted to "text.html"

Parameters:

mimeType - The MIME type to map to a string.