com.sun.mail.iap

Class Argument

java.lang.Object

com.sun.mail.iap.Argument

public class Argument
extends Object

Author:

John Mani

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected Vector	items

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Argument() Constructor

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	append(Argument arg) append the given Argument to this Argument.
void	write(Protocol protocol)
void	writeArgument(Argument c) Write out as parenthesised list.
void	writeAtom(String s) Write out given string as an Atom.
void	writeBytes(byte[] b) Write out given byte[] as a Literal.
void	writeBytes(ByteArrayOutputStream b) Write out given ByteArrayOutputStream as a Literal.
void	writeBytes(Literal b) Write out given data as a literal.
void	writeNumber(int i) Write out number.
void	writeNumber(long i) Write out number.
void	writeString(String s) Write out given string as an ASTRING, depending on the type of the characters inside the string.
void	writeString(String s, String charset) Convert the given string into bytes in the specified charset, and write the bytes out as an ASTRING

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

items

protected Vector items

Constructor Detail

Argument

public Argument()

Constructor

Method Detail

append

public void append(Argument arg)

append the given Argument to this Argument. All items from the source argument are copied into this destination argument.

writeString

public void writeString(String s)

Write out given string as an ASTRING, depending on the type of the characters inside the string. The string should contain only ASCII characters.

XXX: Hmm .. this should really be called writeASCII()

Parameters:

s - String to write out

writeString

public void writeString(String s,
               String charset)
                 throws UnsupportedEncodingException

Convert the given string into bytes in the specified charset, and write the bytes out as an ASTRING

Throws:

UnsupportedEncodingException

writeBytes

public void writeBytes(byte[] b)

Write out given byte[] as a Literal.

Parameters:

b - byte[] to write out

writeBytes

public void writeBytes(ByteArrayOutputStream b)

Write out given ByteArrayOutputStream as a Literal.

Parameters:

b - ByteArrayOutputStream to be written out.

writeBytes

public void writeBytes(Literal b)

Write out given data as a literal.

Parameters:

b - Literal representing data to be written out.

writeAtom

public void writeAtom(String s)

Write out given string as an Atom. Note that an Atom can contain only certain US-ASCII characters. No validation is done on the characters in the string.

Parameters:

s - String

writeNumber

public void writeNumber(int i)

Write out number.

Parameters:

i - number

writeNumber

public void writeNumber(long i)

Write out number.

Parameters:

i - number

writeArgument

public void writeArgument(Argument c)

Write out as parenthesised list.

write

public void write(Protocol protocol)
           throws IOException,
                  ProtocolException

Throws:

IOException

ProtocolException