ChainableReader (Apache Ant API)
Date: 2018-09-12

Package org.apache.tools.ant.filters

## Interface ChainableReader

- All Known Implementing Classes:
    `ClassConstants`, `ConcatFilter`, `EscapeUnicode`, `ExpandProperties`, `FixCRLF`, `FixCrLfFilter`, `HeadFilter`, `LineContains`, `LineContainsRegExp`, `Native2AsciiFilter`, `PrefixLines`, `ReplaceTokens`, `ScriptFilter`, `SortFilter`, `StripJavaComments`, `StripLineBreaks`, `StripLineComments`, `SuffixLines`, `TabsToSpaces`, `TailFilter`, `TokenFilter`, `TokenFilter.ChainableReaderFilter`, `TokenFilter.ContainsRegex`, `TokenFilter.DeleteCharacters`, `TokenFilter.IgnoreBlank`, `TokenFilter.ReplaceRegex`, `TokenFilter.ReplaceString`, `TokenFilter.Trim`, `UniqFilter`

      public interface ChainableReader

  Interface indicating that a reader may be chained to another one.

- - ### Method Summary

    All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `java.io.Reader` | `chain​(java.io.Reader rdr)` | Returns a reader with the same configuration as this one, but filtering input from the specified reader.

- - ### Method Detail

    - #### chain

          java.io.Reader chain​(java.io.Reader rdr)

      Returns a reader with the same configuration as this one, but filtering input from the specified reader.
      Parameters:
        `rdr` - the reader which the returned reader should be filtering
      Returns:
        a reader with the same configuration as this one, but filtering input from the specified reader