URIDereferencer (Java Platform SE 6)

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javax.xml.crypto
Interface URIDereferencer

public interface URIDereferencer

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.

Since:: 1.6
See Also:: XMLCryptoContext.setURIDereferencer(URIDereferencer), XMLCryptoContext.getURIDereferencer()

Method Summary
`Data`	`dereference(URIReference uriReference, XMLCryptoContext context)` Dereferences the specified `URIReference` and returns the dereferenced data.

Method Detail

dereference

Data dereference(URIReference uriReference,
 XMLCryptoContext context)
 throws URIReferenceException

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