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package org.biojava.bio.program.sax;

import java.util.HashMap;

import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * An interface for parsing summary lines of Blast-like
 * output. For example:
 *
 * Y00365 Chinese hamster high mobility group prote...   246  1e-62 
 *
 * The number of tokens from the right-hand side to collect
 * is specified by the calling method. In the above case,
 * the 2 right-most tokens i.e. 246 and 1e-62 would be chosen.
 *
 * Primary author -
 *                 Simon Brocklehurst (CAT)
 * Other authors  -
 *                 Tim Dilks          (CAT)
 *                 Colin Hardman      (CAT)
 *                 Stuart Johnston    (CAT)
 *
 * Copyright 2000 Cambridge Antibody Technology Group plc.
 * 
 *
 * This code released to the biojava project, May 2000
 * under the LGPL license.
 *
 * @author Cambridge Antibody Technology Group plc
 * @version 0.1
 *
 */
interface SummaryLineHelperIF {

    /**
     * Takes a line such as
     *
     * L38477 Mus musculus (clone Clebp-1) high...   353  7e-95
     *
     * And parses it according to the following rules
     * 
     * From the left, and tokenizing on white space, extracts the
     * first token (above, this would be "L38477") and places
     * it as a String in the object Buffer.
     *
     * From the right, and tokenizing on white space, looks for
     * a specified number of tokens, which it places as
     * Strings in the object map
     *
     * @param poLine	 -
     * @param poMap	 A HashMap of name-value pairs to be
     * be interpreted by the calling class. The first two
     * items in the map will be the HitId and the HitDescription.
     * Subsequent will be attribute name-values pairs such as
     * Score, E-value.
     * @param poVersion  Allow access to all program and version info.
     */
     void parse(String poLine,HashMap poMap,
		BlastLikeVersionSupport poVersion) throws SAXException;

}