StreamProvider

```
public interface StreamProvider
```
Service lookup is used to find implementations of this interface. It contains the methods to instance different encoders/decoders and other streams required by the API.

Since:

JavaMail 2.1

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes
Modifier and Type Interface and Description

static class StreamProvider.EncoderTypes
Enumeration with the different encoder types supported by the Mail API.

Nested Classes
Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
`static class`	`StreamProvider.EncoderTypes` Enumeration with the different encoder types supported by the Mail API.

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`java.io.InputStream`	`inputBase64(java.io.InputStream in)` Creates a 'base64' decoder from the InputStream.
`java.io.InputStream`	`inputBinary(java.io.InputStream in)` Creates a 'binary', '7bit' and '8bit' decoder from the InputStream.
`LineInputStream`	`inputLineStream(java.io.InputStream in, boolean allowutf8)` Creates a new LineInputStream that supports reading CRLF terminated lines containing only US-ASCII characters from an input stream
`java.io.InputStream`	`inputQ(java.io.InputStream in)` Creates a 'q' decoder from the InputStream.
`java.io.InputStream`	`inputQP(java.io.InputStream in)` Creates a 'quoted-printable' decoder from the InputStream.
`java.io.InputStream`	`inputSharedByteArray(byte[] buff)` Creates a new InputStream from the underlying byte array to be shared between multiple readers.
`java.io.InputStream`	`inputUU(java.io.InputStream in)` Creates a 'uuencode', 'x-uuencode' and 'x-uue' decoder from the InputStream.
`java.io.OutputStream`	`outputB(java.io.OutputStream out)` Creates a 'b' encoder from the OutputStream.
`java.io.OutputStream`	`outputBase64(java.io.OutputStream out)` Creates a 'base64' encoder from the OutputStream.
`java.io.OutputStream`	`outputBinary(java.io.OutputStream out)` Creates a 'binary', '7bit' and '8bit' encoder from the OutputStream.
`LineOutputStream`	`outputLineStream(java.io.OutputStream out, boolean allowutf8)` Creates a new LineOutputStream that supports writing out Strings as a sequence of bytes terminated by a CRLF sequence.
`java.io.OutputStream`	`outputQ(java.io.OutputStream out, boolean encodingWord)` Creates a 'q' encoder.
`java.io.OutputStream`	`outputQP(java.io.OutputStream out)` Creates a 'quoted-printable' encoder from the OutputStream.
`java.io.OutputStream`	`outputUU(java.io.OutputStream out, java.lang.String filename)` Creates a 'uuencode', 'x-uuencode' and 'x-uue' encoder from the OutputStream.
`static StreamProvider`	`provider()` Creates a stream provider object.

- Method Detail
  - inputBase64
```
java.io.InputStream inputBase64(java.io.InputStream in)
```
    Creates a 'base64' decoder from the InputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - the InputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    the decoder
  - outputBase64
```
java.io.OutputStream outputBase64(java.io.OutputStream out)
```
    Creates a 'base64' encoder from the OutputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    out - the OutputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    the encoder
  - inputBinary
```
java.io.InputStream inputBinary(java.io.InputStream in)
```
    Creates a 'binary', '7bit' and '8bit' decoder from the InputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - the InputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    the decoder
  - outputBinary
```
java.io.OutputStream outputBinary(java.io.OutputStream out)
```
    Creates a 'binary', '7bit' and '8bit' encoder from the OutputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    out - the OutputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    the encoder
  - outputB
```
java.io.OutputStream outputB(java.io.OutputStream out)
```
    Creates a 'b' encoder from the OutputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    out - the OutputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    the encoder
  - inputQ
```
java.io.InputStream inputQ(java.io.InputStream in)
```
    Creates a 'q' decoder from the InputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - the InputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    the decoder
  - outputQ
```
java.io.OutputStream outputQ(java.io.OutputStream out,
                             boolean encodingWord)
```
    Creates a 'q' encoder.
    
    Parameters:
    
    out - the OutputStream
    
    encodingWord - true if we are Q-encoding a word within a phrase.
    
    Returns:
    
    the encoder
  - inputLineStream
```
LineInputStream inputLineStream(java.io.InputStream in,
                                boolean allowutf8)
```
    Creates a new LineInputStream that supports reading CRLF terminated lines containing only US-ASCII characters from an input stream
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - the InputStream
    
    allowutf8 - allow UTF-8 characters?
    
    Returns:
    
    the LineInputStream
  - outputLineStream
```
LineOutputStream outputLineStream(java.io.OutputStream out,
                                  boolean allowutf8)
```
    Creates a new LineOutputStream that supports writing out Strings as a sequence of bytes terminated by a CRLF sequence. The String must contain only US-ASCII characters.
    
    Parameters:
    
    out - the OutputStream
    
    allowutf8 - allow UTF-8 characters?
    
    Returns:
    
    the LineOutputStream
  - inputQP
```
java.io.InputStream inputQP(java.io.InputStream in)
```
    Creates a 'quoted-printable' decoder from the InputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - the InputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    the decoder
  - outputQP
```
java.io.OutputStream outputQP(java.io.OutputStream out)
```
    Creates a 'quoted-printable' encoder from the OutputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    out - the OutputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    the encoder
  - inputSharedByteArray
```
java.io.InputStream inputSharedByteArray(byte[] buff)
```
    Creates a new InputStream from the underlying byte array to be shared between multiple readers.
    
    Parameters:
    
    buff - the byte array
    
    Returns:
    
    the InputStream
  - inputUU
```
java.io.InputStream inputUU(java.io.InputStream in)
```
    Creates a 'uuencode', 'x-uuencode' and 'x-uue' decoder from the InputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    in - the InputStream
    
    Returns:
    
    the decoder
  - outputUU
```
java.io.OutputStream outputUU(java.io.OutputStream out,
                              java.lang.String filename)
```
    Creates a 'uuencode', 'x-uuencode' and 'x-uue' encoder from the OutputStream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    out - the OutputStream
    
    filename - Specifies a name for the encoded buffer. It can be null.
    
    Returns:
    
    the encoder
  - provider
```
static StreamProvider provider()
```
    Creates a stream provider object. The provider is loaded using the ServiceLoader.load(Class) method. If there are no available service providers, this method throws an IllegalStateException. Users are recommended to cache the result of this method.
    
    Returns:
    
    a stream provider

Interface StreamProvider

Nested Class Summary

Method Summary

Method Detail

inputBase64

outputBase64

inputBinary

outputBinary

outputB

inputQ

outputQ

inputLineStream

outputLineStream

inputQP

outputQP

inputSharedByteArray

inputUU

outputUU

provider