org.apache.uima.analysis_engine
Interface CasIterator

public interface CasIterator

An iterator over a collection of CASes. One use for this interface is to allow an application to iterate over all of the CASes produced by as output of the AnalysisEngine.processAndOutputNewCASes(CAS) method.

Method Summary

boolean	hasNext() Checks if there are more CASes to be returned by the iterator.
CAS	next() Gets the next CAS from the iterator.
void	release() Releases any CASes owned by this CasIterator.

Method Detail

hasNext

boolean hasNext()
                throws AnalysisEngineProcessException

Checks if there are more CASes to be returned by the iterator.

Returns:

true if there are more CASes to be returned, false if not

Throws:

AnalysisEngineProcessException - if a failure has occurred during processing. If an exception is thrown, this indicates that processing has aborted, so no further calls to the CasIterator should be made.

next

CAS next()
         throws AnalysisEngineProcessException

Gets the next CAS from the iterator.

Returns:

the next CAS.

Throws:

AnalysisEngineProcessException - if a failure has occurred during processing. If an exception is thrown, this indicates that processing has aborted, so no further calls to the CasIterator should be made.

release

void release()

Releases any CASes owned by this CasIterator. You only need to Call this method if you stop using a CasIterator before you have iterated all the way through.