com.infomata.data
Class FixedWidthFormat

java.lang.Object
  com.infomata.data.FixedWidthFormat

All Implemented Interfaces:

DataFormat

public class FixedWidthFormat

extends java.lang.Object

implements DataFormat

Data file format that uses fixed width to define each item per row of data.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Sam Kim

Constructor Summary

FixedWidthFormat(int[] widths)
Creates a new FixedWidthFormat instance.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	format(DataRow row) Formats the data contained in DataRow object into a String according to pre-defined widths.
DataRow	parseLine(java.lang.String line) Parses a line of text containing data contained according to pre-defined character widths.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

FixedWidthFormat

public FixedWidthFormat(int[] widths)

Creates a new FixedWidthFormat instance.

Parameters:

widths - list of width of each item contained in data file in correct order.

Method Detail

parseLine

public DataRow parseLine(java.lang.String line)

Parses a line of text containing data contained according to pre-defined character widths.

Specified by:

parseLine in interface DataFormat

Parameters:

line - String object containing data.

Returns:

DataRow object containing data parsed from line.

format

public java.lang.String format(DataRow row)

Formats the data contained in DataRow object into a String according to pre-defined widths.

Specified by:

format in interface DataFormat

Parameters:

row - DataRow containing data to be written to file.

Returns:

line of text containing data in specified widths.