loci.formats.services

Interface MDBService

All Superinterfaces:

loci.common.services.Service

All Known Implementing Classes:

MDBServiceImpl

public interface MDBService
extends loci.common.services.Service

Interface defining methods for parsing MDB database files.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	close() Close the currently initialized file.
void	initialize(java.lang.String filename) Prepare the given .mdb file for reading.
java.util.Vector<java.util.Vector<java.lang.String[]>>	parseDatabase() Read all tables from a pre-initialized .mdb files.

Method Detail

initialize

void initialize(java.lang.String filename)
         throws java.io.IOException

Prepare the given .mdb file for reading. This method must be called before parseDatabase().

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if a problem occurs when opening the file

parseDatabase

java.util.Vector<java.util.Vector<java.lang.String[]>> parseDatabase()
                                                              throws java.io.IOException

Read all tables from a pre-initialized .mdb files. Each Vector in the outer Vector represents a table; each String[] in a table represents a row, and each element of the String[] represents the value of a particular column within the row. The first row in each table contains the names for each column. The first entry in the column name row is the name of the table. initialize(String) must be called before calling parseDatabase().

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if there is a problem reading the table data

close

void close()

Close the currently initialized file.