com.lf.commons.io

Interface InputStreamProvider

public interface InputStreamProvider

Provider class to get arbitrary binary data as input stream.

Implementations are used by the AbstractDataSource's to load contents on demand.

Since:

1.6

Version:

$Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2016/01/01 15:43:02 $

Author:

Axel Schwolow

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.io.InputStream	getInputStream() This method returns an InputStream representing the data and throws the appropriate exception if it can not do so.

Method Detail

getInputStream

java.io.InputStream getInputStream()
                                   throws java.io.IOException

This method returns an InputStream representing the data and throws the appropriate exception if it can not do so.

Note that a new InputStream object must be returned each time this method is called, and the stream must be positioned at the beginning of the data.

Returns:

An input stream

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If an error occurred

java.lang.NullPointerException - If the loaded content is null

Since:

1.6