org.apache.uima.analysis_engine
Interface JCasIterator

public interface JCasIterator

An iterator over a collection of JCAS objects. 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(JCas) method.

Method Summary

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

Method Detail

hasNext

boolean hasNext()
                throws AnalysisEngineProcessException

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

Returns:

true if there are more JCASes 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 JCasIterator should be made.

next

JCas next()
          throws AnalysisEngineProcessException

Gets the next JCAS from the iterator.

Returns:

the next JCAS.

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 JCasIterator should be made.

release

void release()

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