//
// MDBService.java
//
/*
OME Bio-Formats package for reading and converting biological file formats.
Copyright (C) 2005-@year@ UW-Madison LOCI and Glencoe Software, Inc.
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*/
package loci.formats.services;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Vector;
import loci.common.services.Service;
/**
* Interface defining methods for parsing MDB database files.
*
* <dl><dt><b>Source code:</b></dt>
* <dd><a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/browser/bioformats.git/components/bio-formats/src/loci/formats/services/MDBService.java">Trac</a>,
* <a href="http://git.openmicroscopy.org/?p=bioformats.git;a=blob;f=components/bio-formats/src/loci/formats/services/MDBService.java;hb=HEAD">Gitweb</a></dd></dl>
*/
public interface MDBService extends Service {
/**
* Prepare the given .mdb file for reading. This method must be called
* before {@link #parseDatabase()}.
*
* @throws IOException if a problem occurs when opening the file
*/
public void initialize(String filename) throws IOException;
/**
* Read all tables from a pre-initialized .mdb files. Each Vector<String[]>
* 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.
*
* {@link #initialize(String)} must be called before calling parseDatabase().
*
* @throws IOException if there is a problem reading the table data
*/
public Vector<Vector<String[]>> parseDatabase() throws IOException;
/** Close the currently initialized file. */
public void close();
}