class Poco::Net::PartHandler

Overview

The base class for all part or attachment handlers. More…

#include <PartHandler.h>

class PartHandler
{
public:
    // methods

    virtual
    void
    handlePart(
        const MessageHeader& header,
        std::istream& stream
        ) = 0;
};

// direct descendants

class NullPartHandler;

Detailed Documentation

The base class for all part or attachment handlers.

Part handlers are used for handling email parts and attachments in MIME multipart messages, as well as file uploads via HTML forms.

Subclasses must override handlePart().

Construction

virtual
~PartHandler()

Destroys the PartHandler.

Methods

virtual
void
handlePart(
    const MessageHeader& header,
    std::istream& stream
    ) = 0

Called for every part encountered during the processing of an email message or an uploaded HTML form.

Information about the part can be extracted from the given message header. What information can be obtained from header depends on the kind of part.

The content of the part can be read from stream.