uk.ac.starlink.table

Interface RowSequence

All Known Implementing Classes:

EmptyRowSequence, IteratorRowSequence, OnceRowPipe, 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.next() ) {
             Object[] row = rseq.getRow();
                ...
         }
     }
     finally {
         rseq.close();
     }
 

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

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	close() Indicates that this sequence will not be required any more.
java.lang.Object	getCell(int icol) Returns the contents of a cell in the current row.
java.lang.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	next() Attempts to advances the current row to the next one.

Method Detail

next

boolean next()
      throws java.io.IOException

Attempts to advances the current row to the next one. If true is returned the attempt has been successful, and if false is returned there are no more rows in this sequence. 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.

Returns:

true iff this sequence has been advanced to the next row

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if there is some error

getCell

java.lang.Object getCell(int icol)
                  throws java.io.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:

java.io.IOException - if there is an error reading the data

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if there is no current row (before the start of the table)

getRow

java.lang.Object[] getRow()
                   throws java.io.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:

java.io.IOException - if there is an error reading the data

close

void close()
    throws java.io.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.

Throws:

java.io.IOException