org.apache.http.entity.mime.content

## Class AbstractContentBody

- java.lang.Object
- - org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.AbstractContentBody

All Implemented Interfaces:
  ContentBody, ContentDescriptor

Direct Known Subclasses:
  ByteArrayBody, FileBody, InputStreamBody, StringBody

    public abstract class AbstractContentBody
    extends Object
    implements ContentBody

Since:
  4.0

### Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor and Description
`AbstractContentBody(org.apache.http.entity.ContentType contentType)`
`AbstractContentBody(String mimeType)` Deprecated. (4.3) use `AbstractContentBody(ContentType)`

### Method Summary

Methods
`String` `getCharset()` The body descriptors character set, defaulted appropriately for the MIME type.
`org.apache.http.entity.ContentType` `getContentType()`
`String` `getMediaType()` Gets the defaulted MIME media type for this content.
`String` `getMimeType()` Returns the body descriptors MIME type.
`String` `getSubType()` Gets the defaulted MIME sub type for this content.

### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

### Methods inherited from interface org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.ContentBody

`getFilename, writeTo`

### Methods inherited from interface org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.ContentDescriptor

`getContentLength, getTransferEncoding`

### Constructor Detail

#### AbstractContentBody

    public AbstractContentBody(org.apache.http.entity.ContentType contentType)

Since:
  4.3

#### AbstractContentBody

    @Deprecated
    public AbstractContentBody(String mimeType)

Deprecated. (4.3) use `AbstractContentBody(ContentType)`

### Method Detail

#### getContentType

    public org.apache.http.entity.ContentType getContentType()

Since:
  4.3

#### getMimeType

    public String getMimeType()

Description copied from interface: `ContentDescriptor`
Returns the body descriptors MIME type.

Specified by:
  `getMimeType` in interface `ContentDescriptor`
Returns:
  The MIME type, which has been parsed from the content-type definition. Must not be null, but "text/plain", if no content-type was specified.
See Also:
  `ContentDescriptor.getMediaType()`, `ContentDescriptor.getSubType()`

#### getMediaType

    public String getMediaType()

Description copied from interface: `ContentDescriptor`
Gets the defaulted MIME media type for this content. For example `TEXT`, `IMAGE`, `MULTIPART`

Specified by:
  `getMediaType` in interface `ContentDescriptor`
Returns:
  the MIME media type when content-type specified, otherwise the correct default (`TEXT`)
See Also:
  `ContentDescriptor.getMimeType()`

#### getSubType

    public String getSubType()

Description copied from interface: `ContentDescriptor`
Gets the defaulted MIME sub type for this content.

Specified by:
  `getSubType` in interface `ContentDescriptor`
Returns:
  the MIME media type when content-type is specified, otherwise the correct default (`PLAIN`)
See Also:
  `ContentDescriptor.getMimeType()`

#### getCharset

    public String getCharset()

Description copied from interface: `ContentDescriptor`

The body descriptors character set, defaulted appropriately for the MIME type.

For `TEXT` types, this will be defaulted to `us-ascii`. For other types, when the charset parameter is missing this property will be null.

Specified by:
  `getCharset` in interface `ContentDescriptor`
Returns:
  Character set, which has been parsed from the content-type definition. Not null for `TEXT` types, when unset will be set to default `us-ascii`. For other types, when unset, null will be returned.