edu.ucla.sspace.text

Class FileListTemporalDocumentIterator

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.text.FileListTemporalDocumentIterator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Iterator<TemporalDocument>

public class FileListTemporalDocumentIterator
extends Object
implements Iterator<TemporalDocument>

An iterator implementation that returns TemporalDocument instances given a file that contains list of files and their creation time stamps, each on a separate line. Any files without time stamps have their last modified time used as their creation time.

This class is thread-safe.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
FileListTemporalDocumentIterator(String fileListName) Creates an Iterator over the files listed in the provided file.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	hasNext() Returns true if there are more documents to return.
TemporalDocument	next() Returns the next document from the list.
void	remove() Throws an UnsupportedOperationException if called.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FileListTemporalDocumentIterator

public FileListTemporalDocumentIterator(String fileListName)
                                 throws IOException

Creates an Iterator over the files listed in the provided file.

Throws:

IOException - if any error occurs when reading fileListName

Method Detail

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()

Returns true if there are more documents to return.

Specified by:

hasNext in interface Iterator<TemporalDocument>

next

public TemporalDocument next()

Returns the next document from the list.

Specified by:

next in interface Iterator<TemporalDocument>

remove

public void remove()

Throws an UnsupportedOperationException if called.

Specified by:

remove in interface Iterator<TemporalDocument>