Class java.net.ContentHandler
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Class java.net.ContentHandler

java.lang.Object
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public class ContentHandler
extends Object
A class to read data from a URLConnection and construct an Object. Specific subclasses of ContentHandler handle specific mime types. It is the responsibility of a ContentHandlerFactor to select an appropriate ContentHandler for the mime-type of the URLConnection. Applications should never call ContentHandlers directly, rather they should use URL.getContent() or URLConnection.getContent()

Constructor Index

 o ContentHandler()

Method Index

 o getContent(URLConnection)
Given an input stream positioned at the beginning of the representation of an object, read that stream and recreate the object from it

Constructors

 o ContentHandler
  public ContentHandler()

Methods

 o getContent
  public abstract Object getContent(URLConnection urlc) throws IOException
Given an input stream positioned at the beginning of the representation of an object, read that stream and recreate the object from it
Throws: IOException
An IO error occurred while reading the object.

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