1 <html> 2 <head> 3 <!-- 4 /* 5 * $HeadURL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpcore/trunk/module-main/src/main/java/org/apache/http/entity/package.html $ 6 * $Revision: 496070 $ 7 * $Date: 2007-01-14 04:18:34 -0800 (Sun, 14 Jan 2007) $ 8 * 9 * ==================================================================== 10 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 11 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 12 * distributed with this work for additional information 13 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 14 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 15 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 16 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 17 * 18 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 19 * 20 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 21 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 22 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 23 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 24 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 25 * under the License. 26 * ==================================================================== 27 * 28 * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many 29 * individuals on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation. For more 30 * information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see 31 * <http://www.apache.org/>. 32 * 33 */ 34 --> 35 </head> 36 <body> 37 Representations for HTTP message entities. 38 39 An {@link org.apache.http.HttpEntity entity} is the optional content of a 40 {@link org.apache.http.HttpMessage message}. 41 You'll find a basic selection of entity implementations here. 42 If you need to send an entity, you can provide it for example as a 43 {@link org.apache.http.entity.ByteArrayEntity byte array}, 44 {@link org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity string}, 45 {@link org.apache.http.entity.FileEntity file}, or through an arbitrary 46 {@link org.apache.http.entity.InputStreamEntity input stream}. 47 If you receive a message with an entity, you typically get that as a 48 {@link org.apache.http.entity.BasicHttpEntity basic} entity. 49 Entity implementations can be 50 {@link org.apache.http.entity.HttpEntityWrapper wrapped}, 51 for example to 52 {@link org.apache.http.entity.BufferedHttpEntity buffer} 53 the content in memory. 54 55 56 57 </body> 58 </html> 59
