## org.biojava.bio.seq.io
Class StreamReader

    java.lang.Object
      org.biojava.bio.seq.io.StreamReader

All Implemented Interfaces:
  EventListener, SequenceIterator, ParseErrorListener

    public class StreamReader

extends Object
implements SequenceIterator, ParseErrorListener

Parses a stream into sequences.

This object implements SequenceIterator, so you can loop over each sequence produced. It consumes a stream, and uses a SequenceFormat to extract each sequence from the stream.

It is assumed that the stream contains sequences that can be handled by the one format, and that they are not seperated other than by delimiters that the format can handle.

Sequences are instantiated when they are requested by nextSequence, not before, so it is safe to use this object to parse a gigabyte fasta file, and do sequence-by-sequence processing, while being guaranteed that StreamReader will not require you to keep any of the sequences in memory.

More functionality is offered by `RichStreamReader`, Use of this interface is prefered.

Author:
  Matthew Pocock, Thomas Down
See Also:
  `RichStreamReader`

Constructor Summary
`StreamReader(BufferedReader reader, SequenceFormat format, SymbolTokenization symParser, SequenceBuilderFactory sf)`
`StreamReader(InputStream is, SequenceFormat format, SymbolTokenization symParser, SequenceBuilderFactory sf)`

Method Summary
`void` `BadLineParsed(ParseErrorEvent theEvent)` This method determines the behaviour when a bad line is processed.
`boolean` `hasNext()` Returns whether there are more sequences to iterate over.
`Sequence` `nextSequence()` Pull the next sequence out of the stream.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### StreamReader

    public StreamReader(InputStream is,
                        SequenceFormat format,
                        SymbolTokenization symParser,
                        SequenceBuilderFactory sf)

### StreamReader

    public StreamReader(BufferedReader reader,
                        SequenceFormat format,
                        SymbolTokenization symParser,
                        SequenceBuilderFactory sf)

Method Detail

### nextSequence

    public Sequence nextSequence()
                          throws NoSuchElementException,
                                 BioException

  Pull the next sequence out of the stream.

  This method will delegate parsing from the stream to a SequenceFormat object, and then return the resulting sequence.

  Specified by:
    `nextSequence` in interface `SequenceIterator`
  Returns:
    the next Sequence
  Throws:
    `NoSuchElementException` - if the end of the stream has been hit
    `BioException` - if for any reason the next sequence could not be read

### hasNext

    public boolean hasNext()

  Description copied from interface: `SequenceIterator`
  Returns whether there are more sequences to iterate over.

  Specified by:
    `hasNext` in interface `SequenceIterator`
  Returns:
    true if there are more sequences to get and false otherwise

### BadLineParsed

    public void BadLineParsed(ParseErrorEvent theEvent)

  This method determines the behaviour when a bad line is processed. Some options are to log the error, throw an exception, ignore it completely, or pass the event through.

  This method should be overwritten when different behavior is desired.

  Specified by:
    `BadLineParsed` in interface `ParseErrorListener`
  Parameters:
    `theEvent` - The event that contains the bad line and token.