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# Class w3c.jigsaw.forms.URLDecoder

    java.lang.Object
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       +----w3c.jigsaw.forms.URLDecoder

public class URLDecoder
extends Object

Form data decoder. This class takes an InputStream and decodes it in compliance to the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME type.

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EMPTY_VALUE

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URLDecoder(InputStream)
  Create an URLDecoder for the given stream.
URLDecoder(InputStream, boolean)
  Create an URLDecoder for the given stream.

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addVariable(String, String)
  Define a new variable in this data set.
getMultipleValues(String)
  Get the values of the variable, as an array.
getValue(String)
  Get the value of a variable.
keys()
  Get an enumeration of the variable names.
parse()
  Parse our input stream following the application/x-www-form-urlencoded specification.

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EMPTY_VALUE

     public static final String EMPTY_VALUE

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URLDecoder

     public URLDecoder(InputStream in,
                       boolean overide)

  Create an URLDecoder for the given stream.

  Parameters:
    in - The input stream to be parsed.
    list - Tells how to handle multiple settings of the same variable. When false, mutiple settings to the same variable will accumulate the value into an array, returned by getValue(). Otherwise, the last assignment will overide any previous assignment.

URLDecoder

     public URLDecoder(InputStream in)

  Create an URLDecoder for the given stream. Default constructor, which will keep track only of the last setting of the same variable (if ever it gets assigned multiply).

  Parameters:
    in - The input stream to be parsed.

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keys

     public Enumeration keys()

  Get an enumeration of the variable names.

  Returns:
    An enumeration continaing one element per key.

addVariable

     protected void addVariable(String var,
                                String val)

  Define a new variable in this data set.

  Parameters:
    name - The name of the variable.
    value - Its value.

getMultipleValues

     public String[] getMultipleValues(String name)

  Get the values of the variable, as an array. Use this method when you have turned off the overide flag in the constructor of this object. This will always return either an array of Strings or null.

  I use this in the PICS label bureau, and I pretty sure this is not a good reason to have it here.

  Parameters:
    name - The name of the variable to look for.
  Returns:
    An String[] having one entry per variable's value, or null if none was found.

getValue

     public String getValue(String name)

  Get the value of a variable. If you have allowed the decoder to accumulate multiple values for the same variable, this method casts of the value to a String may fail at runtime.

  Parameters:
    name - The name of the variable whose value is to be fetched.
  Returns:
    Its values, which is always provided as a String, or null.

parse

     public Hashtable parse() throws IOException, URLDecoderException

  Parse our input stream following the application/x-www-form-urlencoded specification.

  Returns:
    The raw bindings obtained from parsing the stream, as a Hashtable instance.
  Throws: IOException
    When IO error occurs while reading the stream.
  Throws: URLDecoderException
    If the format is invalid.

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