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
`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