| J. Duke | 319a3b9 | 2007-12-01 00:00:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | /* |
| 2 | * Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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| 25 | /* |
| 26 | * $Id: URIReference.java,v 1.4 2005/05/10 15:47:42 mullan Exp $ |
| 27 | */ |
| 28 | package javax.xml.crypto; |
| 29 | |
| 30 | /** |
| 31 | * Identifies a data object via a URI-Reference, as specified by |
| 32 | * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a>. |
| 33 | * |
| 34 | * <p>Note that some subclasses may not have a <code>type</code> attribute |
| 35 | * and for objects of those types, the {@link #getType} method always returns |
| 36 | * <code>null</code>. |
| 37 | * |
| 38 | * @author Sean Mullan |
| 39 | * @author JSR 105 Expert Group |
| 40 | * @since 1.6 |
| 41 | * @see URIDereferencer |
| 42 | */ |
| 43 | public interface URIReference { |
| 44 | |
| 45 | /** |
| 46 | * Returns the URI of the referenced data object. |
| 47 | * |
| 48 | * @return the URI of the data object in RFC 2396 format (may be |
| 49 | * <code>null</code> if not specified) |
| 50 | */ |
| 51 | String getURI(); |
| 52 | |
| 53 | /** |
| 54 | * Returns the type of data referenced by this URI. |
| 55 | * |
| 56 | * @return the type (a URI) of the data object (may be <code>null</code> |
| 57 | * if not specified) |
| 58 | */ |
| 59 | String getType(); |
| 60 | } |