javax.mail.internet

Class HeaderTokenizer

public class HeaderTokenizer extends Object

A lexer for RFC 822 and MIME headers.

Version: 1.3

Nested Class Summary
static class	HeaderTokenizer.Token A token returned by the lexer.

Field Summary
static String	MIME MIME specials.
static String	RFC822 RFC 822 specials.

Constructor Summary
	HeaderTokenizer(String header, String delimiters, boolean skipComments) Constructor.
	HeaderTokenizer(String header, String delimiters) Constructor.
	HeaderTokenizer(String header) Constructor.

Method Summary
String	getRemainder() Returns the rest of the header.
HeaderTokenizer.Token	next() Returns the next token.
HeaderTokenizer.Token	peek() Peeks at the next token.

Field Detail

MIME

public static final String MIME

MIME specials.

RFC822

public static final String RFC822

RFC 822 specials.

Constructor Detail

HeaderTokenizer

public HeaderTokenizer(String header, String delimiters, boolean skipComments)

Constructor.

Parameters: header the RFC 822 header to be tokenized delimiters the delimiter characters to be used to delimit ATOMs skipComments whether to skip comments

HeaderTokenizer

public HeaderTokenizer(String header, String delimiters)

Constructor. Comments are ignored.

Parameters: header the RFC 822 header to be tokenized delimiters the delimiter characters to be used to delimit ATOMs

HeaderTokenizer

public HeaderTokenizer(String header)

Constructor. The RFC822-defined delimiters are used to delimit ATOMs. Comments are ignored.

Method Detail

getRemainder

public String getRemainder()

Returns the rest of the header.

public HeaderTokenizer.Token next()

Returns the next token.

Returns: the next token

Throws: ParseException if the parse fails

peek

public HeaderTokenizer.Token peek()

Peeks at the next token. The token will still be available to be read by next(). Invoking this method multiple times returns successive tokens, until next() is called.

Parameters: ParseException if the parse fails