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package java.net;

import java.io.IOException;

/**

 * The abstract class {@code ContentHandler} is the superclass

 * of all classes that read an {@code Object} from a

 * {@code URLConnection}.

 * <p>

 * An application does not generally call the

 * {@code getContent} method in this class directly. Instead, an

 * application calls the {@code getContent} method in class

 * {@code URL} or in {@code URLConnection}.

 * The application's content handler factory (an instance of a class that

 * implements the interface {@code ContentHandlerFactory} set up by a call to

 * {@link URLConnection#setContentHandlerFactory(ContentHandlerFactory)

 * setContentHandlerFactory} is called with a {@code String} giving the

 * MIME type of the object being received on the socket. The factory returns an

 * instance of a subclass of {@code ContentHandler}, and its

 * {@code getContent} method is called to create the object.

 * <p>

 * If no content handler could be {@linkplain URLConnection#getContent() found},

 * URLConnection will look for a content handler in a user-definable set of places.

 * Users can define a vertical-bar delimited set of class prefixes

 * to search through by defining the <i>{@value java.net.URLConnection#contentPathProp}</i>

 * property. The class name must be of the form:

 * <blockquote>

 *     <i>{package-prefix}.{major}.{minor}</i>

 *     <p>

 *     where <i>{major}.{minor}</i> is formed by taking the

 *     content-type string, replacing all slash characters with a

 *     {@code period} ('.'), and all other non-alphanumeric characters

 *     with the underscore character '{@code _}'. The alphanumeric

 *     characters are specifically the 26 uppercase ASCII letters

 *     '{@code A}' through '{@code Z}', the 26 lowercase ASCII

 *     letters '{@code a}' through '{@code z}', and the 10 ASCII

 *     digits '{@code 0}' through '{@code 9}'.

 *     <p>

 *     e.g.

 *     YoyoDyne.experimental.text.plain

 * </blockquote>

 * If no user-defined content handler is found, then the system

 * tries to load a specific <i>content-type</i> handler from one

 * of the built-in handlers, if one exists.

 * <p>

 * 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

 * @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   1.0

 */

public abstract class ContentHandler {

    /**

     * Given a URL connect stream positioned at the beginning of the

     * representation of an object, this method reads that stream and

     * creates an object from it.

     *

     * @param      urlc   a URL connection.

     * @return     the object read by the {@code ContentHandler}.

     */

    public abstract Object getContent(URLConnection urlc) throws IOException;

    /**

     * Given a URL connect stream positioned at the beginning of the

     * representation of an object, this method reads that stream and

     * creates an object that matches one of the types specified.

     *

     * The default implementation of this method should call

     * {@link #getContent(URLConnection)}

     * and screen the return type for a match of the suggested types.

     *

     * @param      urlc   a URL connection.

     * @param      classes      an array of types requested

     * @return     the object read by the {@code ContentHandler} that is

     *                 the first match of the suggested types or

     *                 {@code null} if none of the requested  are supported.

     * @since 1.3

     */

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")

    public Object getContent(URLConnection urlc, Class[] classes) throws IOException {

        Object obj = getContent(urlc);

        for (Class<?> c : classes) {

            if (c.isInstance(obj)) {

                return obj;

            }

        }

        return null;

    }

}