ContentHandlerFactory
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This interface defines a factory for content handlers. An
implementation of this interface should map a MIME type into an
instance of ContentHandler.
This interface is used by the URLStreamHandler class
to create a ContentHandler for a MIME type.
Public Methods
public
abstract
ContentHandler
createContentHandler
(String mimetype)
Creates a new ContentHandler to read an object from
a URLStreamHandler.
Parameters
| mimetype |
the MIME type for which a content handler is desired. |
Returns
- a new
ContentHandler to read an object from a
URLStreamHandler.
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Last updated 2024-07-10 UTC.
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