net.java.sen
Class StreamTagger

java.lang.Object
  net.java.sen.StreamTagger

public class StreamTagger
extends Object

Tokenizes text read from a java.io.Reader

See examples.StreamTaggerDemo in the Sen source for an example of how to use this class

Thread Safety: Objects of this class are NOT thread safe and should not be accessed simultaneously by multiple threads. Note that creating additional instances using SenFactory is relatively cheap in both memory and time

Constructor Summary

StreamTagger(StringTagger stringTagger, Reader reader)

Method Summary

void	addFilter(StreamFilter filter) Adds a StreamFilter
boolean	hasNext() Tests if more Tokens are available
Token	next() Returns the next available token

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

StreamTagger

public StreamTagger(StringTagger stringTagger,
                    Reader reader)

Parameters:

stringTagger - The StringTagger to use to tokenise the read text

reader - The Reader to read text from

Method Detail

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()
                throws IOException

Tests if more Tokens are available

Returns:

true if more Tokens are available, otherwise false

Throws:

IOException

next

public Token next()
           throws IOException

Returns the next available token

Returns:

The next available token

Throws:

IOException

addFilter

public void addFilter(StreamFilter filter)

Adds a StreamFilter

Parameters:

filter - The StreamFilter to add