public interface

URIDereferencer

javax.xml.crypto.URIDereferencer

Class Overview

A dereferencer of URIReferences.

The result of dereferencing a URIReference is either an instance of OctetStreamData or NodeSetData. Unless the URIReference is a same-document reference as defined in section 4.2 of the W3C Recommendation for XML-Signature Syntax and Processing, the result of dereferencing the URIReference MUST be an OctetStreamData.

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Summary

Public Methods
abstract Data dereference(URIReference uriReference, XMLCryptoContext context)
Dereferences the specified URIReference and returns the dereferenced data.

Public Methods

public abstract Data dereference (URIReference uriReference, XMLCryptoContext context)

Dereferences the specified URIReference and returns the dereferenced data.

Parameters
uriReference the URIReference
context an XMLCryptoContext that may contain additional useful information for dereferencing the URI. This implementation should dereference the specified URIReference against the context's baseURI parameter, if specified.
Returns
  • the dereferenced data
Throws
NullPointerException if uriReference or context are null
URIReferenceException if an exception occurs while dereferencing the specified uriReference