TotalCounter (Apache Tika 2.8.0 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileSystemPipesIterator
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public interface TotalCounter
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Interface for pipesiterators that allow counting of total documents. This is useful for user-facing frontends where the user does not have easy access to the total number of files for processing. This is run in a daemon thread and is not guaranteed to complete before the actual file processing has completed. This is an ancillary task, and should not throw runtime exceptions. Implementers should be careful to check for thread interrupts.

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  TotalCountResult getTotalCount()
  Returns the total count so far.
  
  void startTotalCount()

- Method Detail
  - startTotalCount
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void startTotalCount()
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  - getTotalCount
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TotalCountResult getTotalCount()
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    Returns the total count so far. Check the TotalCountResult.getStatus() to figure out if the count has completed yet, if it is unsupported or if there was an exception during the counting.
    
    Returns: