com.businessobjects.rebean.wi
Interface BinaryView

All Known Subinterfaces:

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public interface BinaryView

The BinaryView interface provides an access to the properties and functionalities of the binary output format. Using this class, a document contents can be retrieved in the binary formats such as PDF or Excel.

Method Summary

byte[]	getContent() Returns the contents of a view in the binary format.
void	getContent(java.io.OutputStream outputStream) Improves performance by retrieving the contents of a view in binary format on a specified OutputStream.
int	getContentLength() Returns the size of the binary content of a BinaryView.
java.lang.String	getContentType() Returns the mime type of the binary content of a BinaryView.

Method Detail

getContent

byte[] getContent()

Returns the contents of a view in the binary format.

Returns:

The binary content of the view.

getContent

void getContent(java.io.OutputStream outputStream)

Improves performance by retrieving the contents of a view in binary format on a specified OutputStream.

Note:This method improves the performance and scalability of the document retrieval by enabling chunked data transfer and radically improvs the memory consumption on both application and BusinessObjects servers.

Parameters:

outputStream - The OutputStream to which the binary view contents will be written.

getContentLength

int getContentLength()

Returns the size of the binary content of a BinaryView. The size of the BinaryView is necessary to set the HTTP Content-Length for a binary stream. Call this method to get the file size, then retrieve the stream using (OutputStream outputStream).

Returns:

the content length

getContentType

java.lang.String getContentType()

Returns the mime type of the binary content of a BinaryView.

Returns:

The mime type as String

Since:

12.0