Introduction to the FileLocationHandler Module

The FileLocationHandler module provides an API for returning file data based on a URL-like location string.

To retrieve file data, call one of:

To write file data, call one of:

To register a location handler based on a scheme, call:

This module provides the following classes:

AbstractFileLocationHandler: the abstract API class
FileLocationHandler: the main API class
FileLocationHandlerData: class handling "data://" locations (immedidate data in the location URL)
FileLocationHandlerFile: class handling "file://" locations (the default if no scheme is present in the location string)
FileLocationHandlerFtp: class handling "ftp://" and "ftps://" locations
FileLocationHandlerHttp: class handling "http://" and "https://" locations
FileLocationHandlerSftp: class handling "sftp://" locations
OutputStreamWrapper: output stream wrapper class for handling background I/O operations

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