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'Databene Formats' is an open source software library for supporting
data file and other formats like CSV, fixed width files, XLS, Properties and Regex.
It is designed for multithreaded use and high performance.
/*
* Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Volker Bergmann ([email protected]).
* All rights reserved.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package org.databene.formats;
import java.io.Closeable;
/**
* Iterates through data. Implementors are expected to be thread-safe.
* Created: 24.07.2011 08:49:16
* @param the type of iterated data
* @since 0.6.0
* @author Volker Bergmann
*/
public interface DataIterator extends Closeable {
/** Returns the type of the iterated elements.
* @return the type of iterated data */
Class getType();
/** Returns the container with the next data element if available, otherwise null.
* @param container a {@link DataContainer} to receive the iterated data
* @return a {@link DataContainer} that holds the next element, or null if none is available */
DataContainer next(DataContainer container);
/** Closes the iterator. */
@Override
void close();
}