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

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`Reader`
`chain(Reader rdr)`
Returns a reader with the same configuration as this one, but filtering input from the specified reader.

## Method Details

### chain

Reader chain(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