View Javadoc
1   /*
2    * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
3    * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
4    * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
5    * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
6    * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
7    * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
8    *
9    *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10   *
11   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15   * limitations under the License.
16   */
17  package org.apache.commons.fileupload;
18  
19  /**
20   * Enhanced access to the request information needed for file uploads,
21   * which fixes the Content Length data access in {@link RequestContext}.
22   *
23   * The reason of introducing this new interface is just for backward compatibility
24   * and it might vanish for a refactored 2.x version moving the new method into
25   * RequestContext again.
26   *
27   * @since 1.3
28   */
29  public interface UploadContext extends RequestContext {
30  
31      /**
32       * Retrieve the content length of the request.
33       *
34       * @return The content length of the request.
35       * @since 1.3
36       */
37      long contentLength();
38  
39  }