[Chapter 15] ContentHandlerFactory
Author: Mark Grand and Jonathan Knudsen
Date: Fri Aug 8 17:21:37 1997

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| Chapter 15 The java.net Package |

# ContentHandlerFactory

## Name

ContentHandlerFactory

## 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

### createContentHandler

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     public abstract ContentHandler createContentHandler( String mimetype)

Parameters

  `mimetype`

    A `String` that represents a MIME type.

Returns

  A `ContentHandler` object that can read the specified type of content.

Description

  This method creates an object of the appropriate subclass of `ContentHandler` that can read and process data for the given MIME type.

## See Also

`ContentHandler`, `URLStreamHandler`

ContentHandler |  | DatagramPacket