net.sf.extjwnl.data

Interface FileDictionaryElementFactory

All Superinterfaces:

DictionaryElementFactory, Owned

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPrincetonFileDictionaryElementFactory, PrincetonWN17FileDictionaryElementFactory

public interface FileDictionaryElementFactory
extends DictionaryElementFactory

Factory class for creating DictionaryElements (Synsets, Exceptions, and IndexWords). Using a factory class rather than individual parsing methods in each class facilitates using multiple versions of WordNet, or using a proprietary data format.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Exc	createExc(POS pos, java.lang.CharSequence line) Creates an Exc from a line in an exception file.
IndexWord	createIndexWord(POS pos, java.lang.CharSequence line) Creates an IndexWord from a line in an index file.
Synset	createSynset(POS pos, java.lang.CharSequence line) Creates a synset from a line in a data file.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.extjwnl.data.DictionaryElementFactory

createException, createIndexWord, createSynset

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.extjwnl.util.factory.Owned

getDictionary, setDictionary

Method Detail

createExc

Exc createExc(POS pos,
              java.lang.CharSequence line)
       throws JWNLException

Creates an Exc from a line in an exception file.

Parameters:

pos - - the part of speech

line - - unparsed line

Returns:

exception

Throws:

JWNLException - JWNLException

createSynset

Synset createSynset(POS pos,
                    java.lang.CharSequence line)
             throws JWNLException

Creates a synset from a line in a data file.

Parameters:

pos - - the part of speech

line - - unparsed line

Returns:

synset

Throws:

JWNLException - JWNLException

createIndexWord

IndexWord createIndexWord(POS pos,
                          java.lang.CharSequence line)
                   throws JWNLException

Creates an IndexWord from a line in an index file.

Parameters:

pos - - the part of speech

line - - unparsed line

Returns:

indexword

Throws:

JWNLException - JWNLException