001/*
002 * Copyright (C) 2009 The Guava Authors
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
005 * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
006 *
007 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
008 *
009 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License
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013 */
014
015package com.google.common.io;
016
017import com.google.common.annotations.GwtIncompatible;
018import com.google.common.annotations.J2ktIncompatible;
019import com.google.errorprone.annotations.CanIgnoreReturnValue;
020import java.io.IOException;
021import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;
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 should return {@code
027 * false} when you want to stop processing.
028 *
029 * @author Miles Barr
030 * @since 1.0
031 */
032@J2ktIncompatible
033@GwtIncompatible
034public interface LineProcessor<T extends @Nullable Object> {
035
036  /**
037   * This method will be called once for each line.
038   *
039   * @param line the line read from the input, without delimiter
040   * @return true to continue processing, false to stop
041   */
042  @CanIgnoreReturnValue // some uses know that their processor never returns false
043  boolean processLine(String line) throws IOException;
044
045  /** Return the result of processing all the lines. */
046  @ParametricNullness
047  T getResult();
048}