Interface UIDFolder
UIDFolder
interface is implemented by Folders
that can support the "disconnected" mode of operation, by providing
unique-ids for messages in the folder. This interface is based on
the IMAP model for supporting disconnected operation. A Unique identifier (UID) is a positive long value, assigned to each message in a specific folder. Unique identifiers are assigned in a strictly ascending fashion in the mailbox. That is, as each message is added to the mailbox it is assigned a higher UID than the message(s) which were added previously. Unique identifiers persist across sessions. This permits a client to resynchronize its state from a previous session with the server.
Associated with every mailbox is a unique identifier validity value. If unique identifiers from an earlier session fail to persist to this session, the unique identifier validity value must be greater than the one used in the earlier session.
Refer to RFC 2060 for more information. All the Folder objects returned by the default IMAP provider implement the UIDFolder interface. Use it as follows:
Folder f = store.getFolder("whatever"); UIDFolder uf = (UIDFolder)f; long uid = uf.getUID(msg);
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Nested Class Summary
Modifier and TypeInterfaceDescriptionstatic class
A fetch profile item for fetching UIDs. -
Field Summary
Modifier and TypeFieldDescriptionstatic final long
This is a special value that can be used as theend
parameter ingetMessagesByUID(start, end)
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Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptiongetMessageByUID
(long uid) Get the Message corresponding to the given UID.Message[]
getMessagesByUID
(long[] uids) Get the Messages specified by the given array of UIDs.Message[]
getMessagesByUID
(long start, long end) Get the Messages specified by the given range.long
Get the UID for the specified message.long
Returns the UIDValidity value associated with this folder.
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Field Details
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LASTUID
static final long LASTUIDThis is a special value that can be used as theend
parameter ingetMessagesByUID(start, end)
, to denote the UID of the last message in the folder.
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Method Details
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getUIDValidity
Returns the UIDValidity value associated with this folder.Clients typically compare this value against a UIDValidity value saved from a previous session to insure that any cached UIDs are not stale.
- Returns:
- UIDValidity
- Throws:
MessagingException
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getMessageByUID
Get the Message corresponding to the given UID. If no such message exists,null
is returned.- Parameters:
uid
- UID for the desired message- Returns:
- the Message object.
null
is returned if no message corresponding to this UID is obtained. - Throws:
MessagingException
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getMessagesByUID
Get the Messages specified by the given range. The special value LASTUID can be used for theend
parameter to indicate the UID of the last message in the folder.Note that
end
need not be greater thanstart
; the order of the range doesn't matter. Note also that, unless the folder is empty, use of LASTUID ensures that at least one message will be returned - the last message in the folder.- Parameters:
start
- start UIDend
- end UID- Returns:
- array of Message objects
- Throws:
MessagingException
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getMessagesByUID
Get the Messages specified by the given array of UIDs. If any UID is invalid,null
is returned for that entry.Note that the returned array will be of the same size as the specified array of UIDs, and
null
entries may be present in the array to indicate invalid UIDs.- Parameters:
uids
- array of UIDs- Returns:
- array of Message objects
- Throws:
MessagingException
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getUID
Get the UID for the specified message. Note that the message must belong to this folder. Otherwise java.util.NoSuchElementException is thrown.- Parameters:
message
- Message from this folder- Returns:
- UID for this message
- Throws:
NoSuchElementException
- if the given Message is not in this Folder.MessagingException
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