/* * Copyright (c) 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any * questions. */ import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.ContentHandlerFactory; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import java.net.URLStreamHandler; import java.net.URLStreamHandlerFactory; public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { if (args.length > 0) { String fqn = args[0]; @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") Class c = (Class) Class.forName(fqn); ContentHandlerFactory f = c.newInstance(); URLConnection.setContentHandlerFactory(f); } // One does not simply use a ContentHandler... // From an end user perspective ContentHandler is used indirectly // and it's more like SPI rather than API. So there's a certain amount // of preparations needs to be done beforehand. URLStreamHandlerFactory streamHandlerFactory = (protocol) -> new URLStreamHandler() { @Override protected URLConnection openConnection(URL u) { return newUrlConnection(u); } }; URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(streamHandlerFactory); // Finally Object content = new URL("whatever:").getContent(); System.out.println("Content class is: " + content.getClass()); } private static URLConnection newUrlConnection(URL u) { return new URLConnection(u) { @Override public void connect() { } @Override public InputStream getInputStream() { return null; } @Override public String getContentType() { return "text/plain"; } }; } }