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

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.restlet.representation.Representation	dereference(java.lang.String uri)

Method Detail

dereference

org.restlet.representation.Representation dereference(java.lang.String uri)

Parameters:

uri - a URI from which to fetch a document

Returns:

the retrieved HTTP representation, or null if dereferencing the URI is found not to be necessary (for example, if the URI redirects to a document which has already been retrieved)