org.biojava.bio.program.tagvalue
Interface TagValueParser

All Known Implementing Classes:
LineSplitParser, RegexParser

public interface TagValueParser

Tokenize single records (lines of text, objects) into a tag and a value.

TagValueParser instances may be stateful, that is they may remember previous values of tags or values, and return different TagValue responses accordingly.

Since:
1.2
Author:
Matthew Pocock, Keith James

Field Summary
static java.lang.String EMPTY_LINE_EOR
          EMPTY_LINE_EOR is a special EOR value which allows an empty line to be used as a record separator.
 
Method Summary
 TagValue parse(java.lang.Object record)
           
 

Field Detail

EMPTY_LINE_EOR

static final java.lang.String EMPTY_LINE_EOR

EMPTY_LINE_EOR is a special EOR value which allows an empty line to be used as a record separator. Normally this is not possible as the empty line will be swallowed by the preceding tag or value. Use this as an argument to the setEndOfRecord method.

An empty line is defined as a line which contains nothing between the start and the following system-defined line separator. Therefore lines which contain only whitespace are not considererd to be empty.

See Also:
Constant Field Values
Method Detail

parse

TagValue parse(java.lang.Object record)
               throws ParserException
Throws:
ParserException