Package net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file

Class AbstractDictionaryFile

java.lang.Object

net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file.AbstractDictionaryFile

All Implemented Interfaces:

DictionaryFile

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractPrincetonDictionaryFile

public abstract class AbstractDictionaryFile
extends java.lang.Object
implements DictionaryFile

Abstract implementation of DictionaryFile. This class should be implemented for each file naming scheme used. It is assumed that each file will be associated with both a POS and a file type (e.g. in the windows naming scheme, the verb index file is called "verb.idx").

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
private java.io.File	_file
private DictionaryFileType	_fileType	The type of the file.
private POS	_pos

Fields inherited from interface net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file.DictionaryFile

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Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
	AbstractDictionaryFile()
protected	AbstractDictionaryFile(java.lang.String path, POS pos, DictionaryFileType fileType)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.io.File	getFile()
DictionaryFileType	getFileType()	The file type associated with this file.
POS	getPOS()	The POS associated with this file.
protected abstract java.lang.String	makeFilename()	Build a filename from the part-of-speech and the file type.
void	open()	Open the file.
protected abstract void	openFile(java.io.File file)	Open the file at path path

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file.DictionaryFile

close, isOpen, newInstance

Field Detail

_pos

private POS _pos

_fileType

private DictionaryFileType _fileType

The type of the file. For example, the default implementation defines the types INDEX, DATA, and EXCEPTION.

_file

private java.io.File _file

Constructor Detail

AbstractDictionaryFile

public AbstractDictionaryFile()

AbstractDictionaryFile

protected AbstractDictionaryFile(java.lang.String path,
                                 POS pos,
                                 DictionaryFileType fileType)

Method Detail

makeFilename

protected abstract java.lang.String makeFilename()

Build a filename from the part-of-speech and the file type.

openFile

protected abstract void openFile(java.io.File file)
                          throws java.io.IOException

Open the file at path path

Throws:

java.io.IOException

getPOS

public POS getPOS()

The POS associated with this file.

Specified by:

getPOS in interface DictionaryFile

getFile

public java.io.File getFile()

Specified by:

getFile in interface DictionaryFile

getFileType

public DictionaryFileType getFileType()

The file type associated with this file.

Specified by:

getFileType in interface DictionaryFile

open

public void open()
          throws java.io.IOException

Open the file.

Specified by:

open in interface DictionaryFile

Throws:

java.io.IOException