uk.ac.starlink.table
Interface RowSequence

All Known Implementing Classes:
IteratorRowSequence, RandomRowSequence, ReaderRowSequence, WrapperRowSequence

public interface RowSequence

Provides sequential access to the data in a table. The data is a sequence of rows which may be processed from the first to the last. A RowSequence iterates over the rows one at a time. It starts off positioned before the first row, so the next method must be invoked before the first row can be accessed.

Typical usage might look like this:

     RowSequence rseq = table.getRowSequence();
     try {
         while ( rseq.hasNext() ) {
             rseq.next();
             Object[] row = rseq.getRow();
                ...
         }
     }
     finally {
         rseq.close();
     }
 

A RowSequence cannot in general be expected to be used safely from multiple threads.


Method Summary
 void close()
          Indicates that this sequence will not be required any more.
 Object getCell(int icol)
          Returns the contents of a cell in the current row.
 Object[] getRow()
          Returns the contents of the current table row, as an array with the same number of elements as there are columns in this table.
 boolean hasNext()
          Indicates whether this table contains any more rows after the current one.
 void next()
          Advances the current row to the next one.
 

Method Detail

next

public void next()
          throws IOException
Advances the current row to the next one. Since the initial position of a RowSequence is before the first row, this method must be called before current row data can be accessed using the getCell(int) or getRow() methods. An unchecked exception such as NoSuchElementException will be thrown if hasNext() returns false.

Throws:
IOException - if there is some error in the positioning

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()
Indicates whether this table contains any more rows after the current one.

Returns:
true iff another row exists

getCell

public Object getCell(int icol)
               throws IOException
Returns the contents of a cell in the current row. The class of the returned object should be the same as, or a subclass of, the class returned by getColumnInfo(icol).getContentClass(). An unchecked exception will be thrown if there is no current row (next has not yet been called).

Returns:
the contents of cell icol in the current row
Throws:
IOException - if there is an error reading the data
IllegalStateException - if there is no current row (before the start of the table)

getRow

public Object[] getRow()
                throws IOException
Returns the contents of the current table row, as an array with the same number of elements as there are columns in this table. An unchecked exception will be thrown if there is no current row (next has not yet been called).

Returns:
an array of the objects in each cell in row irow
Throws:
IOException - if there is an error reading the data

close

public void close()
           throws IOException
Indicates that this sequence will not be required any more. This should release resources associated with this object. The effect of calling any of the other methods following a close is undefined.

IOException

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