co.uk.hjcs.canyon.parsing
Class DelimitedFieldFlatFileProcessor

java.lang.Object
  co.uk.hjcs.canyon.parsing.DelimitedFieldFlatFileProcessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

FlatFileProcessor

public class DelimitedFieldFlatFileProcessor
extends java.lang.Object
implements FlatFileProcessor

This class is responsible for the reading and creation of delimited text. It uses the field definitions it is given to determine how a line of text should be parsed or created. Any missing definitions are represented as empty fields.

Author:

HJC Solutions Ltd (http://canyon.hjcsolutions.co.uk)

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	DELIMITER_ATTRIBUTE_NAME
static java.lang.String	POSITION_ATTRIBUTE_NAME

Fields inherited from interface co.uk.hjcs.canyon.parsing.FlatFileProcessor

CLASS_ELEMENT_NAME, CLASS_ID_ELEMENT_NAME, CLASS_NAME_ATTRIBUTE, CLASS_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE_NAME, FIELD_ELEMENT_NAME, FIELD_NAME_ATTRIBUTE_NAME

Constructor Summary

DelimitedFieldFlatFileProcessor(java.util.List<FieldDefinition> fields)

Method Summary

java.lang.String	createLine(FlatFileLine ffl) convert the FlatFileLine details into the construct that the flat file is exepcting.
FlatFileLine	createLine(java.lang.String lineData) Create a FlatFileLine object from a string of data
DelimitedFieldDefinition	getField(java.lang.String fieldName) Retrieves the defintion of a field by name
java.util.Set<FieldDefinition>	getFields() Retrieves a Set of all the registered field definitions

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

DELIMITER_ATTRIBUTE_NAME

public static final java.lang.String DELIMITER_ATTRIBUTE_NAME

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Constant Field Values

POSITION_ATTRIBUTE_NAME

public static final java.lang.String POSITION_ATTRIBUTE_NAME

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

DelimitedFieldFlatFileProcessor

public DelimitedFieldFlatFileProcessor(java.util.List<FieldDefinition> fields)

Method Detail

createLine

public java.lang.String createLine(FlatFileLine ffl)

Description copied from interface: FlatFileProcessor

convert the FlatFileLine details into the construct that the flat file is exepcting. E.g creates the flat file line

Specified by:

createLine in interface FlatFileProcessor

Parameters:

ffl - - the FlatFileLine to be turned into a String

Returns:

- the output string representation of this flat file line

getField

public DelimitedFieldDefinition getField(java.lang.String fieldName)

Description copied from interface: FlatFileProcessor

Retrieves the defintion of a field by name

Specified by:

getField in interface FlatFileProcessor

Parameters:

fieldName - - the name of the field

Returns:

- the field definition of the named field

getFields

public java.util.Set<FieldDefinition> getFields()

Description copied from interface: FlatFileProcessor

Retrieves a Set of all the registered field definitions

Specified by:

getFields in interface FlatFileProcessor

Returns:

- all the field definitions for the flat file line

createLine

public FlatFileLine createLine(java.lang.String lineData)

Description copied from interface: FlatFileProcessor

Create a FlatFileLine object from a string of data

Specified by:

createLine in interface FlatFileProcessor

Parameters:

lineData - - the data to be used to create the FlatFileLine object

Returns:

- the line resultset row for the lineData