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§4.12 Interface ContentHandlerFactory

public  interface  java.net.ContentHandlerFactory
{
        // Methods
    public abstract ContentHandler	§4.12.1
        createContentHandler(String  mimetype);
}

This interface defines a factory for content handlers. An implemention of this interface should map a MIME type into an instance of ContentHandler (I-§4.1).

This interface is used by the URLStreamHandler class (I-§4.11) to create a Content-Handler for a MIME type.

createContentHandler

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 (I-§4.1) to read an object from a URL-Stream-Handler (I-§4.11).

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