Package org.refcodes.tabular

Interface Records<T>

Type Parameters:

T - The type managed by the Records.

All Superinterfaces:

java.util.Iterator<Record<? extends T>>

All Known Subinterfaces:

InputStreamRecords<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

CompositeRecordsImpl, CsvFileRecordsImpl, CsvInputStreamRecordsImpl, RecordsImpl

public interface Records<T>
extends java.util.Iterator<Record<? extends T>>

A bunch of Record instances is represented by a Records instance. As of efficiency reasons, a Records instance can be iterated through, returning a single Record within each iteration. This approach is making it possible to query a DB in the background and just hold the Record instances being served next in the Records instance (in memory).

The way how Records instances manage their related Record instances is implementation specific, a plain java implementation might use some kind of collection for storing the Record instances (this can get memory intensive and not applicable when working with big data). A DB implementation might retrieve the Record instances in blocks one by one, one after the other, by querying the DB accordingly (in terms of "next" result sets).

Method Summary

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Iterator

forEachRemaining, hasNext, next, remove