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package org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.RequestEntity;

/**
 * A RequestEntity that represents a File.
 * 
 * @since 3.1
 */
public class FileRequestEntity implements RequestEntity {

    final File file;
    final String contentType;
    
    public FileRequestEntity(final File file, final String contentType) {
        super();
        if (file == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("File may not be null");
        }
        this.file = file;
        this.contentType = contentType;
    }
    public long getContentLength() {
        return this.file.length();
    }

    public String getContentType() {
        return this.contentType;
    }

    public boolean isRepeatable() {
        return true;
    }

    public void writeRequest(final OutputStream out) throws IOException {
        byte[] tmp = new byte[4096];
        int i = 0;
        InputStream instream = new FileInputStream(this.file);
        while ((i = instream.read(tmp)) >= 0) {
            out.write(tmp, 0, i);
        }        
    }    
    
}