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Class Worddatabase

java.lang.Object
  data.Worddatabase

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class Worddatabase
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.lang.Runnable

This class represents the worddatabase and provides methods for searching it.

See Also:

Runnable

Field Summary

Launcher	launcher
LoadingDatabase	load
private int	NUMBER_OF_RESULTS
private org.dom4j.Element	root
private java.lang.String	searchString

Constructor Summary

Worddatabase(Launcher launcher)
The constructor creates a document object containing the XML content of the worddatabase.

Method Summary

void	findWords(java.lang.String word) Used to search words in the database.
void	run() This is executed when starting a new thread.
void	setRootElement(org.dom4j.Element root)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

NUMBER_OF_RESULTS

private final int NUMBER_OF_RESULTS

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Constant Field Values

load

public LoadingDatabase load

launcher

public Launcher launcher

searchString

private java.lang.String searchString

root

private org.dom4j.Element root

Constructor Detail

Worddatabase

public Worddatabase(Launcher launcher)

The constructor creates a document object containing the XML content of the worddatabase. This serves as a base for searching against the user input.

Parameters:

Launcher - launcher - the parent class, used to reference the GUI objects

Method Detail

findWords

public void findWords(java.lang.String word)

Used to search words in the database. This is a method which starts a separate thread to find matches against a search String. A second thread is needed to kepp the app accessible during searches.

Parameters:

String - word The word to search for as regular expression to be matched. For unknown letters '.' has to be used.

run

public void run()

This is executed when starting a new thread. Invoked by the "findWords" method to search the worddatabase within a new thread.

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable

setRootElement

public void setRootElement(org.dom4j.Element root)