Url constructor in java
Class URL represents a Uniform Resource Locator, a pointer to a «resource» on the World Wide Web. A resource can be something as simple as a file or a directory, or it can be a reference to a more complicated object, such as a query to a database or to a search engine. More information on the types of URLs and their formats can be found at: Types of URL In general, a URL can be broken into several parts. Consider the following example:
http://www.example.com/docs/resource1.html
The URL above indicates that the protocol to use is http (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and that the information resides on a host machine named www.example.com . The information on that host machine is named /docs/resource1.html . The exact meaning of this name on the host machine is both protocol dependent and host dependent. The information normally resides in a file, but it could be generated on the fly. This component of the URL is called the path component. A URL can optionally specify a «port», which is the port number to which the TCP connection is made on the remote host machine. If the port is not specified, the default port for the protocol is used instead. For example, the default port for http is 80 . An alternative port could be specified as:
http://www.example.com:1080/docs/resource1.html
The syntax of URL is defined by RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, amended by RFC 2732: Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URLs. The Literal IPv6 address format also supports scope_ids. The syntax and usage of scope_ids is described here. A URL may have appended to it a «fragment», also known as a «ref» or a «reference». The fragment is indicated by the sharp sign character «#» followed by more characters. For example,
http://java.sun.com/index.html#chapter1
This fragment is not technically part of the URL. Rather, it indicates that after the specified resource is retrieved, the application is specifically interested in that part of the document that has the tag chapter1 attached to it. The meaning of a tag is resource specific. An application can also specify a «relative URL», which contains only enough information to reach the resource relative to another URL. Relative URLs are frequently used within HTML pages. For example, if the contents of the URL:
The relative URL need not specify all the components of a URL. If the protocol, host name, or port number is missing, the value is inherited from the fully specified URL. The file component must be specified. The optional fragment is not inherited. The URL class does not itself encode or decode any URL components according to the escaping mechanism defined in RFC2396. It is the responsibility of the caller to encode any fields, which need to be escaped prior to calling URL, and also to decode any escaped fields, that are returned from URL. Furthermore, because URL has no knowledge of URL escaping, it does not recognise equivalence between the encoded or decoded form of the same URL. For example, the two URLs:
http://foo.com/hello world/ and http://foo.com/hello%20world
would be considered not equal to each other. Note, the URI class does perform escaping of its component fields in certain circumstances. The recommended way to manage the encoding and decoding of URLs is to use URI , and to convert between these two classes using toURI() and URI.toURL() . The URLEncoder and URLDecoder classes can also be used, but only for HTML form encoding, which is not the same as the encoding scheme defined in RFC2396.
Constructor Summary
Method Summary
Returns a URLConnection instance that represents a connection to the remote object referred to by the URL .
Same as openConnection() , except that the connection will be made through the specified proxy; Protocol handlers that do not support proxing will ignore the proxy parameter and make a normal connection.
Methods declared in class java.lang.Object
Constructor Detail
URL
public URL(String protocol, String host, int port, String file) throws MalformedURLException
- If the application has previously set up an instance of URLStreamHandlerFactory as the stream handler factory, then the createURLStreamHandler method of that instance is called with the protocol string as an argument to create the stream protocol handler.
- If no URLStreamHandlerFactory has yet been set up, or if the factory’s createURLStreamHandler method returns null , then the ServiceLoader mechanism is used to locate URLStreamHandlerProvider implementations using the system class loader. The order that providers are located is implementation specific, and an implementation is free to cache the located providers. A ServiceConfigurationError, Error or RuntimeException thrown from the createURLStreamHandler , if encountered, will be propagated to the calling thread. The createURLStreamHandler method of each provider, if instantiated, is invoked, with the protocol string, until a provider returns non-null, or all providers have been exhausted.
- If the previous step fails to find a protocol handler, the constructor reads the value of the system property:
If the value of that system property is not null , it is interpreted as a list of packages separated by a vertical slash character ‘ | ‘. The constructor tries to load the class named:
Protocol handlers for the following protocols are guaranteed to exist on the search path :-
Protocol handlers for additional protocols may also be available. Some protocol handlers, for example those used for loading platform classes or classes on the class path, may not be overridden. The details of such restrictions, and when those restrictions apply (during initialization of the runtime for example), are implementation specific and therefore not specified
No validation of the inputs is performed by this constructor.
URL
public URL(String protocol, String host, String file) throws MalformedURLException
Creates a URL from the specified protocol name, host name, and file name. The default port for the specified protocol is used. This constructor is equivalent to the four-argument constructor with the only difference of using the default port for the specified protocol. No validation of the inputs is performed by this constructor.
URL
public URL(String protocol, String host, int port, String file, URLStreamHandler handler) throws MalformedURLException
Creates a URL object from the specified protocol , host , port number, file , and handler . Specifying a port number of -1 indicates that the URL should use the default port for the protocol. Specifying a handler of null indicates that the URL should use a default stream handler for the protocol, as outlined for: java.net.URL#URL(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, int, java.lang.String) If the handler is not null and there is a security manager, the security manager’s checkPermission method is called with a NetPermission(«specifyStreamHandler») permission. This may result in a SecurityException. No validation of the inputs is performed by this constructor.
URL
public URL(String spec) throws MalformedURLException
Creates a URL object from the String representation. This constructor is equivalent to a call to the two-argument constructor with a null first argument.
URL
public URL(URL context, String spec) throws MalformedURLException
Creates a URL by parsing the given spec within a specified context. The new URL is created from the given context URL and the spec argument as described in RFC2396 «Uniform Resource Identifiers : Generic * Syntax» :
The reference is parsed into the scheme, authority, path, query and fragment parts. If the path component is empty and the scheme, authority, and query components are undefined, then the new URL is a reference to the current document. Otherwise, the fragment and query parts present in the spec are used in the new URL. If the scheme component is defined in the given spec and does not match the scheme of the context, then the new URL is created as an absolute URL based on the spec alone. Otherwise the scheme component is inherited from the context URL. If the authority component is present in the spec then the spec is treated as absolute and the spec authority and path will replace the context authority and path. If the authority component is absent in the spec then the authority of the new URL will be inherited from the context. If the spec’s path component begins with a slash character «/» then the path is treated as absolute and the spec path replaces the context path. Otherwise, the path is treated as a relative path and is appended to the context path, as described in RFC2396. Also, in this case, the path is canonicalized through the removal of directory changes made by occurrences of «..» and «.». For a more detailed description of URL parsing, refer to RFC2396.
URL
public URL(URL context, String spec, URLStreamHandler handler) throws MalformedURLException
Creates a URL by parsing the given spec with the specified handler within a specified context. If the handler is null, the parsing occurs as with the two argument constructor.