/**
* This method is used to get the primary and secondary parts joined together with a "/". This is
* typically how a content type is examined. Here convenience is most important, we can easily
* compare content types without any parameters.
*
* @return this returns the primary and secondary types
*/
public String getType() {
return type.toString();
}
/**
* This will add the given name and value to the parameters map. If any previous value of the
* given name has been inserted into the map then this will overwrite that value. This is used to
* ensure that the string value is inserted to the map.
*
* @param name this is the name of the value to be inserted
* @param value this is the value of a that is to be inserted
*/
private void insert(ParseBuffer name, ParseBuffer value) {
map.put(name.toString(), value.toString());
}
/**
* This is used to retrieve the secondary type of this MIME type. The secondary type part within
* the MIME type defines the generic type. For example <code>text/html; charset=UTF-8</code>. This
* will return the HTML value. If there is no secondary type then this will return <code>null
* </code> otherwise the string value.
*
* @return the primary type part of this MIME type
*/
public String getSecondary() {
return secondary.toString();
}
/**
* This is used to retrieve the <code>charset</code> of this MIME type. This is a special
* parameter associated with the type, if the parameter is not contained within the type then this
* will return null, which typically means the default of ISO-8859-1.
*
* @return the value that this parameter contains
*/
public String getCharset() {
return charset.toString();
}
/**
* This is used to retrieve the primary type of this MIME type. The primary type part within the
* MIME type defines the generic type. For example <code>text/plain; charset=UTF-8</code>. This
* will return the text value. If there is no primary type then this will return <code>null</code>
* otherwise the string value.
*
* @return the primary type part of this MIME type
*/
public String getPrimary() {
return primary.toString();
}