Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition

Name

ContentHandler

Synopsis

This abstract class defines a method that reads data from a URLConnection and returns an object that represents that data. Each subclass that implements this method is responsible for handling a different type of content (i.e., a different MIME type). Applications never create ContentHandler objects directly; they are created, when necessary, by the registered ContentHandlerFactory object. Applications should also never call ContentHandler methods directly; they should call URL.getContent( ) or URLConnection.getContent( ) instead. You need to subclass ContentHandler only if you are writing a web browser or similar application that needs to parse and understand some new content type.

public abstract class ContentHandler {
// Public Constructors
     public ContentHandler( );  
// Public Instance Methods
     public abstract Object getContent(URLConnection urlc) 
throws java.io.IOException;  
1.3  public Object getContent(URLConnection urlc, Class[ ] classes) 
throws java.io.IOException;  
}

Returned By

ContentHandlerFactory.createContentHandler( )