001    /*
002     * Copyright (C) 2009 The Guava Authors
003     *
004     * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     *
008     * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
009     *
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    
017    package com.google.common.io;
018    
019    import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
020    
021    import java.io.IOException;
022    
023    /**
024     * A callback to be used with the streaming {@code readLines} methods.
025     *
026     * <p>{@link #processLine} will be called for each line that is read, and
027     * should return {@code false} when you want to stop processing.
028     *
029     * @author Miles Barr
030     * @since 1
031     */
032    @Beta
033    public interface LineProcessor<T> {
034    
035      /**
036       * This method will be called once for each line.
037       *
038       * @param line the line read from the input, without delimiter
039       * @return true to continue processing, false to stop
040       */
041      boolean processLine(String line) throws IOException;
042    
043      /** Return the result of processing all the lines. */
044      T getResult();
045    }