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Interface Location

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractLocation, BytesLocation, FileLocation, URILocation, URLLocation

public interface Location

A location is a data descriptor, such as a file on disk, a remote URL, or a database connection.

Analogous to a uniform resource identifier (URI), a location identifies where the data resides, without necessarily specifying how to access that data. The DataHandle interface defines a plugin that knows how to provide a stream of bytes for a particular kind of location.

Author:

Curtis Rueden

Method Summary

URI	getURI() Gets the location expressed as a URI, or null if the location cannot be expressed as such.

Method Detail

getURI

URI getURI()

Gets the location expressed as a URI, or null if the location cannot be expressed as such.