Synopsis

Interface Name:

java.net.ContentHandlerFactory

Super-interface:

None

Immediate Sub-interfaces:

None

Implemented By:

None

Availability:

JDK 1.0 or later

Description

The ContentHandlerFactory interface defines a method that creates and returns an appropriate ContentHandler object for a given MIME type. The interface is implemented by classes that select ContentHandler subclasses to process content.

The URLStreamHandler class uses a ContentHandlerFactory to create ContentHandler objects. The content type is usually implied by the portion of the URL following the last period. For example, given the following URL:

http://www.tolstoi.org/anna.html

the MIME content type is text/html. A ContentHandlerFactory that recognizes text/html returns a ContentHandler object that can process that kind of content.

Interface Declaration

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

Methods

See Also

ContentHandler, URLStreamHandler