edu.iastate.jtm.jmed
Class UmlsSocketClient

java.lang.Object
  edu.iastate.jtm.jmed.UmlsSocketClient

public class UmlsSocketClient
extends java.lang.Object

A client utilizing UMLS server's socket query facility. This client is preferred over the UmlsQueryClient for queries with huge responses. This class should be used as inheritance. Subclasses override the processLine() method.

Author:

dingjing

Field Summary

protected static java.util.regex.Matcher	endMatcher
protected java.io.BufferedReader	fromServer
protected boolean	querySent
protected java.nio.CharBuffer	responseBuffer

Constructor Summary

UmlsSocketClient(java.io.File template)
Create a new UmlsSocketQuery object with a template query.

Method Summary

void	close() Close the socket connection to the server.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) For test.
void	processResponse()
void	sendQuery(java.lang.String[] args) Send a query to the server.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

endMatcher

protected static final java.util.regex.Matcher endMatcher

querySent

protected boolean querySent

fromServer

protected java.io.BufferedReader fromServer

responseBuffer

protected java.nio.CharBuffer responseBuffer

Constructor Detail

UmlsSocketClient

public UmlsSocketClient(java.io.File template)

Create a new UmlsSocketQuery object with a template query.

Parameters:

template - template query file.

Method Detail

close

public void close()

Close the socket connection to the server.

sendQuery

public void sendQuery(java.lang.String[] args)

Send a query to the server. Server's responses are processed by the callback function processLine().

Parameters:

args - query arguments to be filled in the template.

processResponse

public void processResponse()

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

For test.

Parameters:

args - the command line arguments