net.fortytwo.linkeddata
Interface Dereferencer

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileURIDereferencer, HTTPURIDereferencer, JarURIDereferencer

public interface Dereferencer

An object which fetches documents based on URI (for example, Web documents via HTTP).

Author:

Joshua Shinavier (http://fortytwo.net)

Method Summary

org.restlet.representation.Representation

dereference(String uri)

Method Detail

dereference

org.restlet.representation.Representation dereference(String uri)
                                                      throws net.fortytwo.ripple.RippleException

Parameters:

uri - a URI from which to fetch a document

Returns:

the retrieved HTTP representation

Throws:

net.fortytwo.ripple.RippleException - if dereferencing the URI fails for any reason