Metacat

/**

 *  '$RCSfile$'

 *    Purpose: Interface for associating a content-type with an InputStream

 *  Copyright: 2013 Regents of the University of California and the

 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *    Authors: Ben Leinfelder

 *

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 *     '$Date$'

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 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

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 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

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 */

package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.common.query.stream;

/**

 * Implementations should provide mechanism for identifying the content-type

 * of the java.io.InputStream.

 * The contentType value should be usable in such places as the HTTP Content-Type header

 *

 * @author leinfelder

 *

 */

public interface ContentTypeInputStream {

	/**

	 * Retrieve the content-type for the InputStream

	 * (e.g., "application/octet-stream"

	 * @return

	 */

	public String getContentType();

	/**

	 * Set the content-type of the InputStream

	 * (e.g., "text/xml")

	 * @param contentType

	 */

	public void setContentType(String contentType);

}