IContentConsumer (Web API 2021)

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractExportTransform.IServerPlaintextExportStreamingContext, EncodeSpecialStreamingContext, StreamingContext, TranscodingStreamingContext
```
public interface IContentConsumer
```
This interface represents a consumer of data from input stream. It is used to stream binary data from a data source to a consumer without buffering it in between. Classes implementing this interface must read specified number of bytes from the input stream. Interface does not specify what those classes are supposed to to with this data.

Since:

MicroStrategy Web 9.0.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Deprecated Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`consume(int contentLength, java.io.InputStream src)`	Deprecated.
`void`	`consume(java.lang.String decode, int contentLength, java.io.InputStream src)`	Request to a consumer to consume specified number of bytes from the input stream
`int`	`getContextLength()`
`java.lang.Exception`	`getException()`	Returns the exception that caused consumption interruption.

- Method Detail
  - consume
```
void consume(int contentLength,
             java.io.InputStream src)
      throws java.lang.Exception
```
    Deprecated.
    
    Request to a consumer to consume specified number of bytes from the input stream
    
    Parameters:
    
    contentLength - number of bytes to consume.
    
    src - source input stream
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.Exception
  - consume
```
void consume(java.lang.String decode,
             int contentLength,
             java.io.InputStream src)
      throws java.lang.Exception
```
    Request to a consumer to consume specified number of bytes from the input stream
    
    Parameters:
    
    contentLength - number of bytes to consume.
    
    src - source input stream
    
    decode - decoder charset name
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.Exception
  - getException
```
java.lang.Exception getException()
```
    Returns the exception that caused consumption interruption.
    
    Returns:
    
    the exception that caused consumption interruption.
  - getContextLength
```
int getContextLength()
```