org.openscience.cdk.io
Interface ISimpleChemObjectReader

All Superinterfaces:

Closeable, IChemObjectIO, IChemObjectReader

All Known Implementing Classes:

CDKOWLReader, CIFReader, CMLReader, CrystClustReader, CTXReader, DefaultChemObjectReader, GamessReader, Gaussian03Reader, Gaussian98Reader, GhemicalMMReader, HINReader, INChIPlainTextReader, INChIReader, MDLReader, MDLRXNReader, MDLRXNV2000Reader, MDLRXNV3000Reader, MDLV2000Reader, MDLV3000Reader, Mol2Reader, Mopac7Reader, MoSSOutputReader, PCCompoundASNReader, PCCompoundXMLReader, PCSubstanceXMLReader, PDBReader, PMPReader, RGroupQueryReader, ShelXReader, SMILESReader, VASPReader, XYZReader, ZMatrixReader

public interface ISimpleChemObjectReader
extends IChemObjectReader

This class is the interface that all IO readers should implement. Programs need only care about this interface for any kind of IO. Currently, database IO and file IO is supported.

The easiest way to implement a new ChemObjectReader is to subclass the DefaultChemObjectReader.

I don't know how this should be enforced, but a Reader should also provide an empty constructor so that ClassLoader/getInstance() can be used to instantiate a ChemObjectReader.

Author:

Egon Willighagen

See Also:

DefaultChemObjectReader

Belongs to CDK module:

io

Source code:

cdk-1.4.x

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.openscience.cdk.io.IChemObjectReader

IChemObjectReader.Mode

Method Summary

<T extends IChemObject> T

read(T object) Reads an IChemObject of type "object" from input.

Methods inherited from interface org.openscience.cdk.io.IChemObjectReader

handleError, handleError, handleError, handleError, setErrorHandler, setReader, setReader, setReaderMode

Methods inherited from interface org.openscience.cdk.io.IChemObjectIO

accepts, addChemObjectIOListener, addSetting, addSettings, close, getFormat, getIOSettings, getListeners, getSetting, getSetting, getSettings, hasSetting, removeChemObjectIOListener

Method Detail

read

<T extends IChemObject> T read(T object)
                           throws CDKException

Reads an IChemObject of type "object" from input. The constructor of the actual implementation may take a Reader as input to get a very flexible reader that can read from string, files, etc.

Parameters:

object - the type of object to return

Returns:

returns an object of that contains the content (or part) of the input content

Throws:

CDKException - it is thrown if the type of information is not available from the input