Package pulse.io.readers

Interface AbstractPopulator<T>

All Superinterfaces:

AbstractHandler, Reflexive

All Known Implementing Classes:

MetaFilePopulator

public interface AbstractPopulator<T>
extends AbstractHandler

An AbstractPopulator provides the ability to add extra content to an object by modifying its internal structure to make it compliant with an external file. The difference to the AbstractReader is that the latter does not change the internal structure of an object.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	populate(File f, T t)	Tries to populate t from data contained in f.

Methods inherited from interface pulse.io.readers.AbstractHandler

getSupportedExtension, isExtensionSupported

Method Detail

populate

void populate(File f,
              T t)
       throws IOException

Tries to populate t from data contained in f.

Parameters:

f - a file presumably containing data that can be converted to the internal format of t.

t - a T object which can potentially be populated by f.

Throws:

IOException - if an exception occurs during processing f.