Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Name

ServletInputStream

Synopsis

ServletInputStream provides an input stream for reading data from a client request. A servlet can get a ServletInputStream by calling the getInputStream() method of ServletRequest. While ServletInputStream does contain a readLine() method for reading textual data one line at a time, this functionality was taken over by BufferedReader objects and the getReader() method of ServletRequest in version 2.0 of the Servlet API. Thus, ServletInputStream should only be used to read binary data, generally in the context of a filtering servlet.

                  
public abstract class ServletInputStream extends java.io.InputStream {
// Protected Constructors
   protected ServletInputStream();  
// Public Instance Methods
   public int readLine(byte[] b, int off, 
        int len) throws IOException;  
}

Passed To

javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils.parsePostData()

Returned By

ServletRequest.getInputStream(), ServletRequestWrapper.getInputStream()