com.sun.jersey.core.provider
Class EntityHolder<T>

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.jersey.core.provider.EntityHolder<T>

public class EntityHolder<T>
extends java.lang.Object

A holder for an entity of a request consumed by the server or a response consumed by a client.

Some clients/servers may send requests/responses with no entity or an entity (for example WebDAV clients). To support such request or responses The EntityHolder type may be used where the actual type of the entity is declared as a type parameter.

For example a POST method that consumes a specific JAXB object, MyJAXBObject, can determine if the request contained the JAXB object or the request contained no entity, as follows:

     @POST
     @Consumes("text/plain")
     public void post(EntityHolder<MyJAXBObject> s) {
         if (s.hasEntity()) {
             MyJAXBObject entity = s.getEntity();
         } else {
           ...
         }
     }
 

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EntityHolder

public EntityHolder()

Create an entity holder containing no entity.

EntityHolder

public EntityHolder(T t)

Create an entity holder containing an entity.

Parameters:

t - the entity.

hasEntity

public boolean hasEntity()

Returns:

true if there is an entity present, otherwise false.

getEntity

public T getEntity()

Get the entity.

Returns:

the entity if present, otherwise null if the entity is not present.