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

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Constructor Summary

	AbstractDictionaryFile()
protected	AbstractDictionaryFile(String path, POS pos, DictionaryFileType fileType)

Method Summary

File	getFile()
DictionaryFileType	getFileType() The file type associated with this file.
POS	getPOS() The POS associated with this file.
protected abstract String	makeFilename() Build a filename from the part-of-speech and the file type.
void	open() Open the file.
protected abstract void	openFile(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

Constructor Detail

AbstractDictionaryFile

public AbstractDictionaryFile()

AbstractDictionaryFile

protected AbstractDictionaryFile(String path,
                                 POS pos,
                                 DictionaryFileType fileType)

Method Detail

makeFilename

protected abstract String makeFilename()

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

openFile

protected abstract void openFile(File file)
                          throws IOException

Open the file at path path

Throws:

IOException

getPOS

public POS getPOS()

The POS associated with this file.

Specified by:

getPOS in interface DictionaryFile

getFile

public 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 IOException

Open the file.

Specified by:

open in interface DictionaryFile

Throws:

IOException