org.pfsw.file

Class AFileProcessor

java.lang.Object

org.pfsw.file.AFileProcessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

IObjectProcessor<java.io.File>, IFileProcessor

Direct Known Subclasses:

FileCopyProcessor, FileDeleteProcessor

public abstract class AFileProcessor
extends java.lang.Object
implements IFileProcessor

An abstract class that defines the method proccessFile( File ) to be implemented by any subclass. Such a subclass then can be used with FileWalker iterate recursively over a file directory and process the found files.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AFileProcessor() Initialize the new instance with default values.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	processFile(java.io.File file) Process the given file or directory in any appropriate way.
boolean	processObject(java.io.File file) Default implementation of interface IObjectProcessor that casts the given object to java.io.File if possible.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AFileProcessor

public AFileProcessor()

Initialize the new instance with default values.

Method Detail

processFile

public boolean processFile(java.io.File file)

Process the given file or directory in any appropriate way. Subclasses may override this method in order to do something useful. This implementation here is doing nothing at all and returns true.

Specified by:

processFile in interface IFileProcessor

Parameters:

file - The file or directory to process

Returns:

true if processing of files should continue, otherwise false

processObject

public boolean processObject(java.io.File file)

Default implementation of interface IObjectProcessor that casts the given object to java.io.File if possible. If the given object is no File then it will be ignored.

Specified by:

processObject in interface IObjectProcessor<java.io.File>

Parameters:

file - The object to be processed (null must be handled)

Returns:

true to continue the processing, false to stop the processing