edu.stanford.nlp.trees
Class FilteringTreeReader

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.nlp.trees.FilteringTreeReader

All Implemented Interfaces:

TreeReader, java.io.Closeable

public class FilteringTreeReader
extends java.lang.Object
implements TreeReader

A FilteringTreeReader filters the output of another TreeReader. It applies a Filter<Tree> to each returned tree and only returns trees that are accepted by the Filter. The Filter should accept trees that it wants returned.

Author:

Christopher Manning

Constructor Summary

FilteringTreeReader(TreeReader tr, Filter<Tree> f)

Method Summary

void	close() Close the Reader behind this TreeReader.
Tree	readTree() Reads a single tree.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

FilteringTreeReader

public FilteringTreeReader(TreeReader tr,
                           Filter<Tree> f)

Method Detail

readTree

public Tree readTree()
              throws java.io.IOException

Reads a single tree.

Specified by:

readTree in interface TreeReader

Returns:

A single tree, or null at end of file.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If I/O problem

close

public void close()
           throws java.io.IOException

Close the Reader behind this TreeReader.

Specified by:

close in interface TreeReader

Specified by:

close in interface java.io.Closeable

Throws:

java.io.IOException