com.iplanet.trustbase.xurl
Class XURL

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.iplanet.trustbase.xurl.XURL

public class XURL

extends java.lang.Object

extended URL behaviour. XURL aggregates a regular URL, and uses the XURLStreamHandlerFactory to create URLConnections, delegating to the javasoft URLStreamHandlers if the XURLStreamHandlerFactory doesn't have a registered XURLStreamHandler for the appropriate protocol

Constructor Summary

XURL(java.lang.String urlStr)
construct an XURL from a string representing a URL

Method Summary

java.net.URLConnection

openConnection() Attempts to open a connection to the url pointed to by the supplied url string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XURL

public XURL(java.lang.String urlStr)
     throws java.net.MalformedURLException

construct an XURL from a string representing a URL

Method Detail

openConnection

public java.net.URLConnection openConnection()
                                      throws java.io.IOException

Attempts to open a connection to the url pointed to by the supplied url string.
Tries the XURLStreamHandlerFactory first, and if that has no XURLStreamHandler for the requested protocol, tries the javasoft URL.openConnection() method on the aggregated url built from the supplied url string supplied in the constructor.

Returns:

URLConnection an object connected to the url

Throws:

java.io.IOException - occurs if there is an error in creating an URLConnection object from the supplied url string specified in the constructor.