be.saltwater.jaqel.maze.loaders
Interface MazeLoader

All Known Implementing Classes:

XMLMazeLoader

public interface MazeLoader

Provides extensible support for maze file types. Just implement this interface and everyone using the MazeLoader interface will be able to use your file format. At the moment, the only available implementation is XMLMazeLoader.

Author:

Bruno Windels

See Also:

Maze, TileSetLoader

Method Summary

Maze	load(java.lang.String filename) Loads a maze from a given document in the format of the implementing class.

Method Detail

load

public Maze load(java.lang.String filename)
          throws TileSetLoadException,
                 java.io.IOException,
                 java.text.ParseException

Loads a maze from a given document in the format of the implementing class. Uses a prefered TileSetLoader for the implementation, for example XMLMazeLoader uses XMLTileSetLoader here.

Parameters:

filename - The filename of the file that is to be loaded.

Throws:

TileSetLoadException - When the used TileSetLoader couldn't load the tileset completly or another problem arose when trying to load the tileset.

java.io.IOException - When some file could not be read.

java.text.ParseException - When the file has the wrong format.