it.unimi.di.mg4j.document
Class AbstractDocumentSequence

java.lang.Object
  it.unimi.di.mg4j.document.AbstractDocumentSequence

All Implemented Interfaces:

DocumentSequence, SafelyCloseable, Closeable

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractDocumentCollection, CompositeDocumentSequence, ConcatenatedDocumentSequence, CSVDocumentCollection, SubsetDocumentSequence

public abstract class AbstractDocumentSequence
extends Object
implements DocumentSequence, SafelyCloseable

An abstract, safely closeable implementation of a document sequence.

Note that even if your DocumentSequence implementation does not allocate any specific resource, it is nonetheless a good idea to inherit from this class, as tracking missing calls to close() will be easier to detect.

Constructor Summary

AbstractDocumentSequence()

Method Summary

void	close() Closes this document sequence, releasing all resources.
void	filename(CharSequence filename) Does nothing.
protected void	finalize()
static DocumentSequence	load(CharSequence filename) Loads a sequence.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface it.unimi.di.mg4j.document.DocumentSequence

factory, iterator

Constructor Detail

AbstractDocumentSequence

public AbstractDocumentSequence()

Method Detail

load

public static DocumentSequence load(CharSequence filename)
                             throws IOException,
                                    ClassNotFoundException,
                                    IllegalArgumentException,
                                    SecurityException

Loads a sequence.

This method first deserialises the object specified by the given filename, and then invokes DocumentSequence.filename(CharSequence) to ensure proper relativisation of serialised filenames.

Parameters:

filename - a filename that will be used to load a serialised sequence.

Throws:

IOException

ClassNotFoundException

IllegalArgumentException

SecurityException

filename

public void filename(CharSequence filename)
              throws IOException

Does nothing.

Specified by:

filename in interface DocumentSequence

Parameters:

filename - the filename of this document sequence.

Throws:

IOException

finalize

protected void finalize()
                 throws Throwable

Overrides:

finalize in class Object

Throws:

Throwable

close

public void close()
           throws IOException

Description copied from interface: DocumentSequence

Closes this document sequence, releasing all resources.

You should always call this method after having finished with this document sequence. Implementations are invited to call this method in a finaliser as a safety net (even better, implement SafelyCloseable), but since there is no guarantee as to when finalisers are invoked, you should not depend on this behaviour.

Specified by:

close in interface DocumentSequence

Specified by:

close in interface Closeable

Throws:

IOException