ReferenceBinary (The Adobe AEM Quickstart and Web Application. 6.6.0)

All Superinterfaces:

javax.jcr.Binary

All Known Implementing Classes:

SimpleReferenceBinary
```
@ProviderType
public interface ReferenceBinary
extends javax.jcr.Binary
```
Referenceable binary. In addition to the normal JCR Binary functionality, implementations of this class contain a secure reference to the storage location of the binary stream. This reference can be used to efficiently copy binaries across servers as long as both the source and target servers use the same underlying storage for binaries.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.String`	`getReference()`	Returns a secure reference to this binary, or `null` if such a reference is not available.

Methods inherited from interface javax.jcr.Binary
dispose, getSize, getStream, read

- Method Detail
  - getReference
```
java.lang.String getReference()
```
    Returns a secure reference to this binary, or null if such a reference is not available.
    
    Returns:
    
    binary reference, or null