1 /* 2 * Copyright (C) 2003-2006 Christian Siefkes <christian@siefkes.net>. 3 * Development of this software is supported by the German Research Society, 4 * Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School in Distributed Information Systems 5 * (DFG grant no. GRK 316). 6 * 7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 8 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 9 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 10 * (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 15 * GNU General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 18 * along with this program; if not, visit 19 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html or write to the Free Software 20 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA 21 */ 22 package de.fu_berlin.ties; 23 24 import java.io.IOException; 25 26 /*** 27 * Interface for a processor that operates on an input argument. Non-abstract 28 * implementations of this interface are loaded via 29 * {@link de.fu_berlin.ties.util.Util#createObject(Class, String[])} and thus 30 * must provide a suitable constructor. Otherwise reflection-based instantiation 31 * will fail. 32 * 33 * @author Christian Siefkes 34 * @version $Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2006/10/21 16:03:52 $, $Author: siefkes $ 35 */ 36 public interface Processor { 37 38 /*** 39 * Processes an input argument. 40 * 41 * @param input the input to process 42 * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs 43 * @throws ProcessingException if an error occurs during processing 44 */ 45 void process(final String input) throws IOException, ProcessingException; 46 47 }