The abstract class
ContentHandler is the superclass of all classes that read an
Object from a
URLConnection.
An application does not generally call the getContent method in this class directly. Instead, an application calls the getContent method in class URL or in URLConnection. The application's content handler factory (an instance of a class that implements the interface ContentHandlerFactory set up by a call to setContentHandler) is called with a String giving the MIME type of the object being received on the socket. The factory returns an instance of a subclass of ContentHandler, and its getContent method is called to create the object.
If no content handler could be found, URLConnection will look for a content handler in a user-defineable set of places. By default it looks in sun.net.www.content, but users can define a vertical-bar delimited set of class prefixes to search through in addition by defining the java.content.handler.pkgs property. The class name must be of the form:
{package-prefix}.{major}.{minor} e.g. YoyoDyne.experimental.text.plain If the loading of the content handler class would be performed by a classloader that is outside of the delegation chain of the caller, the JVM will need the RuntimePermission "getClassLoader".
@author James Gosling
@version 1.20, 04/07/06
@see java.net.ContentHandler#getContent(java.net.URLConnection)
@see java.net.ContentHandlerFactory
@see java.net.URL#getContent()
@see java.net.URLConnection
@see java.net.URLConnection#getContent()
@see java.net.URLConnection#setContentHandlerFactory(java.net.ContentHandlerFactory)
@since JDK1.0