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show

Class: matlab.net.http.MessageBody
Namespace: matlab.net.http

Display or return formatted version of message body data

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Syntax

show(body)
show(body,maxlength)
str = show(___)

Description

show(body) displays the entire Data property of a message body if Data is a scalar string or character vector. For other types, the method displays a message indicating the length of the data in bytes, if known. If length is unknown, then the value displayed is the length of the data if body were sent in a request message.

The show method formats Data when possible. For example, the method puts separators between parts of a multipart message and separately converts each part to a string. If Data is a string or character vector, then the string and show methods return the same value.

Use this method for diagnostics or debugging.

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show(body,maxlength) displays the first maxlength characters of Data. If Data is longer than maxlength characters, then the method displays the total length of the data.

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str = show(___) returns a string containing the information to be displayed, and can include any of the input arguments in previous syntaxes.

Input Arguments

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Message body, specified as a matlab.net.http.MessageBody object.

Number of bytes to convert, specified as an integer.

Examples

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Open Script

Display data about an image received from the Hubble Heritage website.

req = matlab.net.http.RequestMessage;
uri = matlab.net.URI('http://heritage.stsci.edu/2007/14/images/p0714aa.jpg');
r = send(req,uri);
show(r.Body)

<< 201317 bytes of image/jpeg data >>
Open Script

Request the MATLAB® webread documentation from mathworks.com.

uri = matlab.net.URI('https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/webread.html');
request = matlab.net.http.RequestMessage;
r = send(request,uri);

Display the first 100 characters of the message body.

show(r.Body,100)

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Read content from RESTful web service - MATLAB webrea

<< 115501 total characters of text/html UTF-8 data >>

Version History

Introduced in R2016b