idl.tmt.documentsource
Interface DocumentProvider

All Known Subinterfaces:

FilesystemDocumentProvider

public interface DocumentProvider

This interface defines an entry point into a source of documents. These sources could be the Web or a file system. Right now, documents provided by classes implementing this interface must be able to be referenced by a URL, but in the future, a more flexible scheme may be implemented which could include XPath queries or SQL queries. Created on Jan 23, 2004

Author:

jelsas

Method Summary

java.io.File	getNextDocument() Returns a URL of the next available document.
boolean	hasMoreDocuments() Indicates whether more documents could be retrieved using this provider.

Method Detail

getNextDocument

public java.io.File getNextDocument()

Returns a URL of the next available document.

Returns:

the document's URL

hasMoreDocuments

public boolean hasMoreDocuments()

Indicates whether more documents could be retrieved using this provider.

Returns:

true if there are more documents, false otherwise.