Class java.net.ContentHandler





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Class java.net.ContentHandler


java.lang.Object
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+----java.net.ContentHandler



public abstract class ContentHandler
extends Object

The abstract class ContentHandler is the superclass
of all classes that read an Object from a
URLConnection.

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.


See Also:
getContent, ContentHandlerFactory, getContent, URLConnection, getContent, setContentHandlerFactory








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.







ContentHandler

public ContentHandler()






getContent

public abstract 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.




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