/* This file is part of the Joshua Machine Translation System.
*
* Joshua is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1
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*
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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*
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*/
package joshua.util.io;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* Common interface for Reader type objects.
*
* @author wren ng thornton <wren@users.sourceforge.net>
* @version $LastChangedDate: 2009-03-26 15:06:57 -0400 (Thu, 26 Mar 2009) $
*/
public interface Reader<E> extends Iterable<E>, Iterator<E> {
/** Close the reader, freeing all resources. */
void close() throws IOException;
/** Determine if the reader is ready to read a line. */
boolean ready() throws IOException;
/** Read a "line" and return an object representing it. */
E readLine() throws IOException;
}