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Class java.net.ContentHandler

Object
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public abstract class ContentHandler

extends Object

An application does not generally call the getContent method in this class directly. Instead, an application calls the getContent method in class URL or in URLConnection. The application's content handler factory (an instance of a class that implements the interface ContentHandlerFactory set up by a call to setContentHandler) is called with a String giving the MIME type of the object being received on the socket. The factory returns an instance of a subclass of ContentHandler, and its getContent method is called to create the object.

Version:

1.8, 07/01/98

Author:

James Gosling

Since:

JDK1.0

See Also:

getContent(java.net.URLConnection), ContentHandlerFactory, getContent(), URLConnection, getContent(), setContentHandlerFactory(java.net.ContentHandlerFactory)

java.net.ContentHandler()

getContent(URLConnection)

Given a URL connect stream positioned at the beginning of the representation of an object, this method reads that stream and creates an object from it.

public ContentHandler()

public abstract java.lang.Object getContent(URLConnection urlc) throws IOException

Given a URL connect stream positioned at the beginning of the representation of an object, this method reads that stream and creates an object from it.

Parameters:

urlc - a URL connection.

Returns:

the object read by the ContentHandler.

Throws: IOException

if an I/O error occurs while reading the object.

Since:

JDK1.0

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