Package com.compomics.util.experiment.io.biology.protein.iterators

Class HeaderIterator

java.lang.Object

com.compomics.util.experiment.io.biology.protein.iterators.HeaderIterator

public class HeaderIterator
extends Object

Iterator for the headers of a FASTA file. Errors encountered during iteration are passed as runtime exceptions.

Author:

Marc Vaudel, Harald Barsnes

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
HeaderIterator(File fastaFile)	Constructor without sanity check.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	close()	Closes the iterator.
String	getNextHeader(WaitingHandler waitingHandler)	Returns the next header.Null if none.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

HeaderIterator

public HeaderIterator(File fastaFile)
               throws FileNotFoundException

Constructor without sanity check.

Parameters:

fastaFile - the FASTA file

Throws:

FileNotFoundException - exception thrown if the file could not be found

Method Details

getNextHeader

public String getNextHeader(WaitingHandler waitingHandler)

Returns the next header.Null if none.

Parameters:

waitingHandler - the waiting handler

Returns:

the next header

close

public void close()

Closes the iterator.