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<h2 title="Interface MessageBodyReader" class="title">Interface MessageBodyReader&lt;T&gt;</h2>
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<pre>public interface <span class="typeNameLabel">MessageBodyReader&lt;T&gt;</span></pre>
<div class="block">Contract for a provider that supports the conversion of a stream to a
Java type.
A <code>MessageBodyReader</code> implementation may be annotated
with <a href="../Consumes.html" title="annotation in javax.ws.rs"><code>Consumes</code></a> to restrict the media types for which it will
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Providers implementing <code>MessageBodyReader</code> contract must be either programmatically
registered in an API runtime or must be annotated with
<a href="Provider.html" title="annotation in javax.ws.rs.ext"><code>&#64;Provider</code></a> annotation to be automatically discovered
by the runtime during a provider scanning phase.
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<dt><span class="simpleTagLabel">Since:</span></dt>
<dd>1.0</dd>
<dt><span class="simpleTagLabel">Author:</span></dt>
<dd>Paul Sandoz, Marc Hadley</dd>
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<dd><a href="Provider.html" title="annotation in javax.ws.rs.ext"><code>Provider</code></a>,
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<td class="colFirst"><code>boolean</code></td>
<th class="colSecond" scope="row"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="#isReadable(java.lang.Class,java.lang.reflect.Type,java.lang.annotation.Annotation%5B%5D,javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType)">isReadable</a></span>&#8203;(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="externalLink">Class</a>&lt;?&gt;&nbsp;type,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect" class="externalLink">Type</a>&nbsp;genericType,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/annotation/Annotation.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.annotation" class="externalLink">Annotation</a>[]&nbsp;annotations,
<a href="../core/MediaType.html" title="class in javax.ws.rs.core">MediaType</a>&nbsp;mediaType)</code></th>
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<div class="block">Ascertain if the MessageBodyReader can produce an instance of a
particular type.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><code><a href="MessageBodyReader.html" title="type parameter in MessageBodyReader">T</a></code></td>
<th class="colSecond" scope="row"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="#readFrom(java.lang.Class,java.lang.reflect.Type,java.lang.annotation.Annotation%5B%5D,javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType,javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap,java.io.InputStream)">readFrom</a></span>&#8203;(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="externalLink">Class</a>&lt;<a href="MessageBodyReader.html" title="type parameter in MessageBodyReader">T</a>&gt;&nbsp;type,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect" class="externalLink">Type</a>&nbsp;genericType,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/annotation/Annotation.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.annotation" class="externalLink">Annotation</a>[]&nbsp;annotations,
<a href="../core/MediaType.html" title="class in javax.ws.rs.core">MediaType</a>&nbsp;mediaType,
<a href="../core/MultivaluedMap.html" title="interface in javax.ws.rs.core">MultivaluedMap</a>&lt;<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="externalLink">String</a>,&#8203;<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="externalLink">String</a>&gt;&nbsp;httpHeaders,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.io" class="externalLink">InputStream</a>&nbsp;entityStream)</code></th>
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<div class="block">Read a type from the <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.io" class="externalLink"><code>InputStream</code></a>.</div>
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<pre class="methodSignature">boolean&nbsp;isReadable&#8203;(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="externalLink">Class</a>&lt;?&gt;&nbsp;type,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect" class="externalLink">Type</a>&nbsp;genericType,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/annotation/Annotation.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.annotation" class="externalLink">Annotation</a>[]&nbsp;annotations,
<a href="../core/MediaType.html" title="class in javax.ws.rs.core">MediaType</a>&nbsp;mediaType)</pre>
<div class="block">Ascertain if the MessageBodyReader can produce an instance of a
particular type. The <code>type</code> parameter gives the
class of the instance that should be produced, the <code>genericType</code> parameter
gives the <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect" class="externalLink"><code>java.lang.reflect.Type</code></a> of the instance
that should be produced.
E.g. if the instance to be produced is <code>List&lt;String&gt;</code>, the <code>type</code> parameter
will be <code>java.util.List</code> and the <code>genericType</code> parameter will be
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/ParameterizedType.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect" class="externalLink"><code>java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType</code></a>.</div>
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<dd><code>type</code> - the class of instance to be produced.</dd>
<dd><code>genericType</code> - the type of instance to be produced. E.g. if the
message body is to be converted into a method parameter, this will be
the formal type of the method parameter as returned by
<code>Method.getGenericParameterTypes</code>.</dd>
<dd><code>annotations</code> - an array of the annotations on the declaration of the
artifact that will be initialized with the produced instance. E.g. if the
message body is to be converted into a method parameter, this will be
the annotations on that parameter returned by
<code>Method.getParameterAnnotations</code>.</dd>
<dd><code>mediaType</code> - the media type of the HTTP entity, if one is not
specified in the request then <code>application/octet-stream</code> is
used.</dd>
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<dd><code>true</code> if the type is supported, otherwise <code>false</code>.</dd>
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<pre class="methodSignature"><a href="MessageBodyReader.html" title="type parameter in MessageBodyReader">T</a>&nbsp;readFrom&#8203;(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="externalLink">Class</a>&lt;<a href="MessageBodyReader.html" title="type parameter in MessageBodyReader">T</a>&gt;&nbsp;type,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect" class="externalLink">Type</a>&nbsp;genericType,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/annotation/Annotation.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.annotation" class="externalLink">Annotation</a>[]&nbsp;annotations,
<a href="../core/MediaType.html" title="class in javax.ws.rs.core">MediaType</a>&nbsp;mediaType,
<a href="../core/MultivaluedMap.html" title="interface in javax.ws.rs.core">MultivaluedMap</a>&lt;<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="externalLink">String</a>,&#8203;<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang" class="externalLink">String</a>&gt;&nbsp;httpHeaders,
<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.io" class="externalLink">InputStream</a>&nbsp;entityStream)
throws <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/IOException.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.io" class="externalLink">IOException</a>,
<a href="../WebApplicationException.html" title="class in javax.ws.rs">WebApplicationException</a></pre>
<div class="block">Read a type from the <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.io" class="externalLink"><code>InputStream</code></a>.
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In case the entity input stream is empty, the reader is expected to either return a
Java representation of a zero-length entity or throw a <a href="../core/NoContentException.html" title="class in javax.ws.rs.core"><code>NoContentException</code></a>
in case no zero-length entity representation is defined for the supported Java type.
A <code>NoContentException</code>, if thrown by a message body reader while reading a server
request entity, is automatically translated by the server runtime into a <a href="../BadRequestException.html" title="class in javax.ws.rs"><code>BadRequestException</code></a>
wrapping the original <code>NoContentException</code> and rethrown for a standard processing by
the registered <a href="ExceptionMapper.html" title="interface in javax.ws.rs.ext"><code>exception mappers</code></a>.
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<dd><code>type</code> - the type that is to be read from the entity stream.</dd>
<dd><code>genericType</code> - the type of instance to be produced. E.g. if the
message body is to be converted into a method parameter, this will be
the formal type of the method parameter as returned by
<code>Method.getGenericParameterTypes</code>.</dd>
<dd><code>annotations</code> - an array of the annotations on the declaration of the
artifact that will be initialized with the produced instance. E.g.
if the message body is to be converted into a method parameter, this
will be the annotations on that parameter returned by
<code>Method.getParameterAnnotations</code>.</dd>
<dd><code>mediaType</code> - the media type of the HTTP entity.</dd>
<dd><code>httpHeaders</code> - the read-only HTTP headers associated with HTTP entity.</dd>
<dd><code>entityStream</code> - the <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.io" class="externalLink"><code>InputStream</code></a> of the HTTP entity. The
caller is responsible for ensuring that the input stream ends when the
entity has been consumed. The implementation should not close the input
stream.</dd>
<dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
<dd>the type that was read from the stream. In case the entity input stream is empty, the reader
is expected to either return an instance representing a zero-length entity or throw
a <a href="../core/NoContentException.html" title="class in javax.ws.rs.core"><code>NoContentException</code></a> in case no zero-length entity representation is
defined for the supported Java type.</dd>
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<dd><code><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/IOException.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.io" class="externalLink">IOException</a></code> - if an IO error arises. In case the entity input stream is empty
and the reader is not able to produce a Java representation for
a zero-length entity, <code>NoContentException</code> is expected to
be thrown.</dd>
<dd><code><a href="../WebApplicationException.html" title="class in javax.ws.rs">WebApplicationException</a></code> - if a specific HTTP error response needs to be produced.
Only effective if thrown prior to the response being committed.</dd>
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