Interface MultiStarTableWriter

  • All Superinterfaces:
    StarTableWriter
    All Known Implementing Classes:
    HTMLTableWriter, TextTableWriter

    public interface MultiStarTableWriter
    extends StarTableWriter
    Interface for table output handlers that can write multiple tables to the same stream. It should be possible in principle (and ideally in practice using a corresponding input handler) to recover these as an array of distinct tables by reading the result later. It is not in general expected that the tables have similar characteristics.
    Since:
    1 Jul 2010
    Author:
    Mark Taylor
    • Method Detail

      • writeStarTables

        void writeStarTables​(TableSequence tableSeq,
                             java.io.OutputStream out)
                      throws java.io.IOException
        Writes an array of StarTable objects to a given output stream. The implementation can assume that the stream is suitable for direct writing (for instance it should not normally wrap it in a BufferedOutputStream), and should not close it at the end of the call.
        Parameters:
        tableSeq - sequence of tables to write
        out - destination stream
        Throws:
        java.io.IOException
      • writeStarTables

        void writeStarTables​(TableSequence tableSeq,
                             java.lang.String location,
                             StarTableOutput sto)
                      throws java.io.IOException
        Writes an array of StarTable objects to a given location. Implementations are free to interpret the location argument in any way appropriate for them. Typically however the location will simply be used to get an output stream (for instance interpreting it as a filename). In this case the sto argument should normally be used to turn location into a stream.
        Parameters:
        tableSeq - sequence of tables to write
        location - destination for tables
        sto - StarTableOutput instance
        Throws:
        java.io.IOException