java.net.URLConnection.getContent()

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/06/2025 17:33, Philip Race wrote:
> Perhaps these APIs should be deprecated (for removal) ?

Maybe but would require a lot of analysis to understand impact as there 
are several ways to configure content handlers and there are stream 
handlers that exist outside of the JDK that might interact with this. 
It's also very possible that there are usages that just assume an 
InputStream.

>
> For 30 years, AudioClip has been the only public type that this API 
> returned for audio data.
> Clearly that won't be possible after it is removed.
>
> SoundClip is the replacement for public uses of AudioClip so it is the 
> obvious replacement.
> And I can without too much work return a SoundClip, and that offers 
> the same migration path
> as for direct API uses of AudioClip, so may be it is the best short 
> term thing, whilst a longer term
> deprecation is worked out ?

A migration from AudioClip to SoundClip would require all usages to 
change too. I think for now that it should be okay to just the mapping 
from MultimediaContentHandlers so that it returns null.

-Alan