com.townleyenterprises.io
Class DelimitedLineProcessor

java.lang.Object
  com.townleyenterprises.io.AbstractLineProcessor
      com.townleyenterprises.io.DelimitedLineProcessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

LineProcessor

public abstract class DelimitedLineProcessor

extends AbstractLineProcessor

This class provides the capability to break a line of delimited text into a list of objects representing each value.

Since:

2.1

Version:

$Id: DelimitedLineProcessor.java,v 1.2 2004/11/06 19:15:36 atownley Exp $

Author:

Andrew S. Townley

Constructor Summary

DelimitedLineProcessor(java.lang.String delim)
The constructor initializes the processor with the delimiter to be used.

Method Summary

abstract void	processItems(java.util.List list) This method gets called after the input line has been broken up into the individual tokens.
void	processLine(java.lang.String line) This method gets called for each line processed containing the text of the line.
void	reset() This method does nothing.

Methods inherited from class com.townleyenterprises.io.AbstractLineProcessor

getLineCount

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DelimitedLineProcessor

public DelimitedLineProcessor(java.lang.String delim)

The constructor initializes the processor with the delimiter to be used.

Parameters:

delim - the delimiter

Method Detail

processLine

public void processLine(java.lang.String line)
                 throws java.lang.Exception

This method gets called for each line processed containing the text of the line.

Specified by:

processLine in interface LineProcessor

Overrides:

processLine in class AbstractLineProcessor

Parameters:

line - the line of the input file

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if an error occurs processing the line

processItems

public abstract void processItems(java.util.List list)
                           throws java.lang.Exception

This method gets called after the input line has been broken up into the individual tokens.

Parameters:

list - the list to process

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if something goes wrong processing the items

reset

public void reset()

This method does nothing.

Specified by:

reset in interface LineProcessor

Overrides:

reset in class AbstractLineProcessor