edu.columbia.cs.ref.tool.preprocessor
Class CompositeSequentialPreprocessor

java.lang.Object
  edu.columbia.cs.ref.tool.preprocessor.CompositeSequentialPreprocessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

Preprocessor

public class CompositeSequentialPreprocessor
extends java.lang.Object
implements Preprocessor

This class is an implementation of the Preprocessor interface. This Preprocessor is used to compose several preprocessors. The result of this processor is the consecutive application of several transformations to the input content

Since:

2011-09-27

Version:

0.1

Author:

Pablo Barrio, Goncalo Simoes

Constructor Summary

CompositeSequentialPreprocessor(Preprocessor... preprocessors)
Instantiates a new composite sequential preprocessor.

Method Summary

java.lang.String

process(java.lang.String content) This method is responsible for processing the content of a document and returns a transformed String that corresponds to a transformed version of the input content

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CompositeSequentialPreprocessor

public CompositeSequentialPreprocessor(Preprocessor... preprocessors)

Instantiates a new composite sequential preprocessor. Note that the order of the inputs is very important because the transformations may not be commutative.

Parameters:

preprocessors - the preprocessors

Method Detail

process

public java.lang.String process(java.lang.String content)

Description copied from interface: Preprocessor

This method is responsible for processing the content of a document and returns a transformed String that corresponds to a transformed version of the input content

Specified by:

process in interface Preprocessor

Parameters:

content - the content of document represented as a String

Returns:

the transformed version of the input content