ITokenizer.java

package org.supercsv.io;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import org.supercsv.exception.SuperCSVException;

/**
 * The tokenizer is an internal mechanism to the csv parser
 * 
 * @author Kasper B. Graversen
 */
public interface ITokenizer {

/**
 * Close the underlying stream
 * 
 * @throws IOException
 *             when raised by operating on the underlying stream
 */
void close() throws IOException;

int getLineNumber();

/**
 * Read a csv line into the list result (can span multiple lines in the file) The result list is cleared as the first
 * thing in the method
 * 
 * @param result
 *            the result of the operation
 * @return true if something was read. and false if EOF
 * @throws IOException
 *             when an io-error occurs
 * @throws SuperCSVException
 *             on errors in parsing the input
 * @since 1.0
 */
boolean readStringList(List<String> result) throws IOException, SuperCSVException;
}