Synopsis

Interface Name:

java.net.StreamHandlerFactory

Super-interface:

None

Immediate Sub-interfaces:

None

Implemented By:

None

Availability:

JDK 1.0 or later

Description

The URLStreamHandlerFactory interface defines a method that creates a URLStreamHandler object for a specific protocol. The interface is implemented by classes that select URLStreamHandler subclasses to process particular protocol types.

The URL class uses a URLStreamHandlerFactory to create URLStreamHandler objects. The protocol type is determined by the portion of the URL up to the first colon. For example, given the following URL:

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

the protocol type is http. A URLStreamHandlerFactory that recognizes http returns a URLStreamHandler that can process the URL.

Interface Declaration

public abstract interface java.net.URLStreamHandlerFactory {
  // Methods
  public abstract URLStreamHandler createURLStreamHandler(String protocol);
}

Methods

See Also

URL, URLStreamHandler