Class ConcatenatedDocumentSequence

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    DocumentSequence, SafelyCloseable, Closeable, AutoCloseable

    public class ConcatenatedDocumentSequence
    extends AbstractDocumentSequence
    A document sequence exhibiting a list of underlying document sequences, called segments, as a single sequence. The underlying sequences are (virtually) concatenated—that is, the first document of the second sequence is renumbered to the size of the first sequence, and so on. All underlying sequences must use the same factory class.
    Author:
    Paolo Boldi, Sebastiano Vigna
    • Constructor Detail

      • ConcatenatedDocumentSequence

        public ConcatenatedDocumentSequence​(DocumentSequence... sequence)
                                     throws IOException
        Creates a new concatenated document sequence using giving component sequences.
        Parameters:
        sequence - a list of component sequences.
        Throws:
        IOException
      • ConcatenatedDocumentSequence

        public ConcatenatedDocumentSequence​(String... sequenceName)
                                     throws IOException
        Creates a new concatenated document sequence using giving serialised component sequences.
        Parameters:
        sequenceName - a list of serialised component sequences.
        Throws:
        IOException
      • ConcatenatedDocumentSequence

        protected ConcatenatedDocumentSequence​(String[] sequenceName,
                                               DocumentSequence[] sequence)
                                        throws IOException
        Creates a new concatenated document sequence using giving component sequences.
        Parameters:
        sequenceName -
        sequence - a list of component sequences.
        Throws:
        IOException
    • Method Detail

      • factory

        public DocumentFactory factory()
        Description copied from interface: DocumentSequence
        Returns the factory used by this sequence.

        Every document sequence is based on a document factory that transforms raw bytes into a sequence of characters. The factory contains useful information such as the number of fields.

        Returns:
        the factory used by this sequence.
      • 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 AutoCloseable
        Specified by:
        close in interface Closeable
        Specified by:
        close in interface DocumentSequence
        Overrides:
        close in class AbstractDocumentSequence
        Throws:
        IOException
      • iterator

        public DocumentIterator iterator()
                                  throws IOException
        Description copied from interface: DocumentSequence
        Returns an iterator over the sequence of documents.

        Warning: this method can be safely called just one time. For instance, implementations based on standard input will usually throw an exception if this method is called twice.

        Implementations may decide to override this restriction (in particular, if they implement DocumentCollection). Usually, however, it is not possible to obtain two iterators at the same time on a collection.

        Returns:
        an iterator over the sequence of documents.
        Throws:
        IOException
        See Also:
        DocumentCollection