SuffixSensitiveGISModelReader.java

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package opennlp.maxent.io;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import opennlp.model.AbstractModel;

/**
 * A reader for GIS models which inspects the filename and invokes the
 * appropriate GISModelReader depending on the filename's suffixes.
 *
 * <p>The following assumption are made about suffixes:
 *    <li>.gz  --> the file is gzipped (must be the last suffix)
 *    <li>.txt --> the file is plain text
 *    <li>.bin --> the file is binary
 */
public class SuffixSensitiveGISModelReader extends GISModelReader {
  protected GISModelReader suffixAppropriateReader;

  /**
   * Constructor which takes a File and invokes the GISModelReader appropriate
   * for the suffix.
   * 
   * @param f
   *          The File in which the model is stored.
   */
  public SuffixSensitiveGISModelReader(File f) throws IOException {
    super(f);
  }
    
  // activate this if adding another type of reader which can't read model
  // information in the way that the default getModel() method in
  // GISModelReader does.
  //public GISModel getModel () throws java.io.IOException {
  //    return suffixAppropriateReader.getModel();
  //}

  /**
   * To convert between different formats of the new style.
   * 
   * <p>
   * java opennlp.maxent.io.SuffixSensitiveGISModelReader old_model_name
   * new_model_name
   * 
   * <p>
   * For example, to convert a model called "model.bin.gz" (which is thus saved
   * in gzipped binary format) to one in (unzipped) text format:
   * 
   * <p>
   * java opennlp.maxent.io.SuffixSensitiveGISModelReader model.bin.gz model.txt
   * 
   * <p>
   * This particular example would of course be useful when you generally want
   * to create models which take up less space (.bin.gz), but want to be able to
   * inspect a few of them as plain text files.
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    AbstractModel m = new SuffixSensitiveGISModelReader(new File(args[0]))
        .getModel();
    new SuffixSensitiveGISModelWriter(m, new File(args[1])).persist();
  }
}