NetworkViewCollectionTaskFactory (Cytoscape Swing App API (swing-app-api) 3.8.0 API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

ApplyPreferredLayoutTaskFactory, ApplyVisualStyleTaskFactory, DestroyNetworkViewTaskFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractNetworkViewCollectionTaskFactory
```
public interface NetworkViewCollectionTaskFactory
```
A task factory that creates one or more tasks that operate on the specified collection of network views.
Module: core-task-api
To use this in your app, include the following dependency in your POM:
```
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.cytoscape</groupId>
    <artifactId>core-task-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
```
Cytoscape Backwards Compatibility (SPI Interface): We expect that this interface will be implemented. Therefore to maintain backwards compatibility this interface will only be modified for major version updates.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`TaskIterator`	`createTaskIterator(Collection<CyNetworkView> networkViews)`	Provisions this factory with the collection of network views that will be passed into any task created by it.
`boolean`	`isReady(Collection<CyNetworkView> networkViews)`	Returns true if this task factory is ready to produce a TaskIterator.

- Method Detail
  - createTaskIterator
```
TaskIterator createTaskIterator(Collection<CyNetworkView> networkViews)
```
    Provisions this factory with the collection of network views that will be passed into any task created by it.
    
    Parameters:
    
    networkViews - a non-null collection of CyNetworkViews
    
    Returns:
    
    A TaskIterator object containing one or more Task objects to execute.
  - isReady
```
boolean isReady(Collection<CyNetworkView> networkViews)
```
    Returns true if this task factory is ready to produce a TaskIterator.
    
    Parameters:
    
    networkViews - a non-null collection of CyNetworkViews
    
    Returns:
    
    true if this task factory is ready to produce a TaskIterator.