public interface URIDereferencer
A dereferencer of
URIReference
s.
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:
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Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptiondereference
(URIReference uriReference, XMLCryptoContext context) Dereferences the specifiedURIReference
and returns the dereferenced data.
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Method Details
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dereference
Dereferences the specifiedURIReference
and returns the dereferenced data.- Parameters:
uriReference
- theURIReference
context
- anXMLCryptoContext
that may contain additional useful information for dereferencing the URI. This implementation should dereference the specifiedURIReference
against the context'sbaseURI
parameter, if specified.- Returns:
- the dereferenced data
- Throws:
NullPointerException
- ifuriReference
orcontext
arenull
URIReferenceException
- if an exception occurs while dereferencing the specifieduriReference
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