1 /*
2 * Copyright 2006-2007 the original author or authors.
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16
17 package org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform;
18
19
20 /**
21 * Interface that is used by framework to split string obtained typically from a
22 * file into tokens.
23 *
24 * @author tomas.slanina
25 *
26 */
27 public interface LineTokenizer {
28
29 /**
30 * Yields the tokens resulting from the splitting of the supplied
31 * <code>line</code>.
32 *
33 * @param line the line to be tokenized (can be <code>null</code>)
34 *
35 * @return the resulting tokens
36 */
37 FieldSet tokenize(String line);
38 }