Class DocumentedTableBuilder

Method Details

• getExtensions

  public String[] getExtensions()

  Description copied from interface: DocumentedIOHandler

  Returns the list of filename extensions recognised by this handler.

  Specified by:

  getExtensions in interface DocumentedIOHandler

  Returns:

  lower-cased filename extension strings, no "." characters

• looksLikeFile

  public boolean looksLikeFile(String filename)

  Description copied from interface: TableBuilder

  Indicates whether the given location string is of a familiar form for this builder. Implementations should return true if there is a good chance that a file with the given location can be interpreted by this reader, for instance if it has a suitable file extension.

  This method may be used to guess, on a best-efforts basis, whether this builder is suitable for reading a file from a given location. Attempts may still be made to read inputs for which this method returns false. It is less important for builders that can recognise files by magic number, which is generally preferable to using filenames.

  Specified by:

  looksLikeFile in interface TableBuilder

  Parameters:

  filename - the location string, such as a filename or URL (not null)

  Returns:

  true iff there is a good chance that the named input can be interpreted by this reader

• canStream

  public abstract boolean canStream()

  Indicates whether this handler can read tables from a stream.

  Returns:

  true iff this handler can read from streams