AttachmentUnmarshaller (Jakarta XML Binding API documentation)

java.lang.Object
- javax.xml.bind.attachment.AttachmentUnmarshaller

```
public abstract class AttachmentUnmarshaller
extends java.lang.Object
```
Enables JAXB unmarshalling of a root document containing optimized binary data formats.

This API enables an efficient cooperative processing of optimized binary data formats between a JAXB 2.0 implementation and MIME-based package processor (MTOM/XOP and WS-I AP 1.0). JAXB unmarshals the body of a package, delegating the understanding of the packaging format being used to a MIME-based package processor that implements this abstract class.

This abstract class identifies if a package requires XOP processing, isXOPPackage() and provides retrieval of binary content stored as attachments by content-id.

Identifying the content-id, cid, to pass to getAttachment*(String cid)
- For XOP processing, the infoset representation of the cid is described in step 2a in Section 3.2 Interpreting XOP Packages
- For WS-I AP 1.0, the cid is identified as an element or attribute of type ref:swaRef specified in Section 4.4 Referencing Attachments from the SOAP Envelope
Since:

1.6, JAXB 2.0

Author:

Marc Hadley, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Joseph Fialli

See Also:

Unmarshaller.setAttachmentUnmarshaller(AttachmentUnmarshaller), XML-binary Optimized Packaging, WS-I Attachments Profile Version 1.0., Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

AttachmentUnmarshaller()

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`abstract byte[]`	`getAttachmentAsByteArray(java.lang.String cid)`	Retrieve the attachment identified by content-id, `cid`, as a `byte[]`.
`abstract javax.activation.DataHandler`	`getAttachmentAsDataHandler(java.lang.String cid)`	Lookup MIME content by content-id, `cid`, and return as a `DataHandler`.
`boolean`	`isXOPPackage()`	Read-only property that returns true if JAXB unmarshaller needs to perform XOP processing.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail
- AttachmentUnmarshaller
```
public AttachmentUnmarshaller()
```

Method Detail

getAttachmentAsDataHandler

public abstract javax.activation.DataHandler getAttachmentAsDataHandler(java.lang.String cid)

Lookup MIME content by content-id, cid, and return as a DataHandler.

The returned DataHandler instance must be configured to meet the following required mapping constaint.

Required Mappings between MIME and Java Types
MIME Type	Java Type
`DataHandler.getContentType()`	`instanceof DataHandler.getContent()`
image/gif	java.awt.Image
image/jpeg	java.awt.Image
text/xml or application/xml	javax.xml.transform.Source

Note that it is allowable to support additional mappings.

Parameters:: cid - It is expected to be a valid lexical form of the XML Schema xs:anyURI datatype. If isXOPPackage()==true, it must be a valid URI per the cid: URI scheme (see RFC 2387)
Returns:: a DataHandler that represents the MIME attachment.
Throws:: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the attachment for the given cid is not found.

getAttachmentAsByteArray
```
public abstract byte[] getAttachmentAsByteArray(java.lang.String cid)
```
Retrieve the attachment identified by content-id, cid, as a byte[].

Parameters:

cid - It is expected to be a valid lexical form of the XML Schema xs:anyURI datatype. If isXOPPackage()==true, it must be a valid URI per the cid: URI scheme (see RFC 2387)

Returns:

byte[] representation of attachment identified by cid.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the attachment for the given cid is not found.

isXOPPackage
```
public boolean isXOPPackage()
```
Read-only property that returns true if JAXB unmarshaller needs to perform XOP processing.

This method returns true when the constraints specified in Identifying XOP Documents are met. This value must not change during the unmarshalling process.

Returns:

true when MIME context is a XOP Document.