com.univocity.parsers.common
Class CommonParserSettings<F extends Format>

java.lang.Object
  com.univocity.parsers.common.CommonSettings<F>
      com.univocity.parsers.common.CommonParserSettings<F>

Type Parameters:

F - the format supported by this parser.

Direct Known Subclasses:

CsvParserSettings, FixedWidthParserSettings, TsvParserSettings

public abstract class CommonParserSettings<F extends Format>
extends CommonSettings<F>

This is the parent class for all configuration classes used by parsers (AbstractParser)

By default, all parsers work with, at least, the following configuration options in addition to the ones provided by CommonSettings:

• rowProcessor: a callback implementation of the interface RowProcessor which handles the life cycle of the parsing process and processes each record extracted from the input
• headerExtractionEnabled (defaults to false): indicates whether or not the first valid record parsed from the input should be considered as the row containing the names of each column
• columnReorderingEnabled (defaults to true): indicates whether fields selected using the field selection methods (defined by the parent class CommonSettings) should be reordered.

  When disabled, each parsed record will contain values for all columns, in the order they occur in the input. Fields which were not selected will not be parsed but and the record will contain empty values.

  When enabled, each parsed record will contain values only for the selected columns. The values will be ordered according to the selection.

• inputBufferSize (defaults to 1024*1024 characters): The number of characters held by the parser's buffer when processing the input.
• readInputOnSeparateThread (defaults true if the number of available processors at runtime is greater than 1):

  When enabled, a reading thread (in input.concurrent.ConcurrentCharInputReader) will be started and load characters from the input, while the parser is processing its input buffer. This yields better performance, especially when reading from big input (greater than 100 mb)

  When disabled, the parsing process will briefly pause so the buffer can be replenished every time it is exhausted (in DefaultCharInputReader it is not as bad or slow as it sounds, and can even be (slightly) more efficient if your input is small)

• numberOfRecordsToRead (defaults to -1): Defines how many (valid) records are to be parsed before the process is stopped. A negative value indicates there's no limit.
• lineSeparatorDetectionEnabled (defaults to false): Attempts to identify what is the line separator being used in the input. The first row of the input will be read until a sequence of '\r\n', or characters '\r' or '\n' is found. If a match is found, then it will be used as the line separator to use to parse the input

Author:

uniVocity Software Pty Ltd - parsers@univocity.com

See Also:

RowProcessor, CsvParserSettings, FixedWidthParserSettings

Constructor Summary

CommonParserSettings()

Method Summary

protected void	addConfiguration(Map<String,Object> out)
int	getInputBufferSize() Informs the number of characters held by the parser's buffer when processing the input (defaults to 1024*1024 characters).
long	getNumberOfRecordsToRead() The number of valid records to be parsed before the process is stopped.
long	getNumberOfRowsToSkip() Returns the number of rows to skip from the input before the parser can begin to execute.
<T extends Context> Processor<T>	getProcessor() Returns the callback implementation of the interface Processor which handles the lifecycle of the parsing process and processes each record extracted from the input
boolean	getReadInputOnSeparateThread() Indicates whether or not a separate thread will be used to read characters from the input while parsing (defaults true if the number of available processors at runtime is greater than 1)
RowProcessor	getRowProcessor() Deprecated. Use the getProcessor() method as it allows format-specific processors to be built to work with different implementations of Context. Implementations based on RowProcessor allow only parsers who provide a ParsingContext to be used.
boolean	isColumnReorderingEnabled() Indicates whether fields selected using the field selection methods (defined by the parent class CommonSettings) should be reordered (defaults to true).
boolean	isCommentCollectionEnabled() Indicates that comments found in the input must be collected (disabled by default).
boolean	isHeaderExtractionEnabled() Indicates whether or not the first valid record parsed from the input should be considered as the row containing the names of each column
boolean	isLineSeparatorDetectionEnabled() Indicates whether the parser should detect the line separator automatically.
protected CharAppender	newCharAppender() Returns an instance of CharAppender with the configured limit of maximum characters per column and the default value used to represent a null value (when the String parsed from the input is empty)
void	setColumnReorderingEnabled(boolean columnReorderingEnabled) Defines whether fields selected using the field selection methods (defined by the parent class CommonSettings) should be reordered (defaults to true).
void	setCommentCollectionEnabled(boolean commentCollectionEnabled) Enables collection of comments found in the input (disabled by default).
void	setHeaderExtractionEnabled(boolean headerExtractionEnabled) Defines whether or not the first valid record parsed from the input should be considered as the row containing the names of each column
void	setInputBufferSize(int inputBufferSize) Defines the number of characters held by the parser's buffer when processing the input (defaults to 1024*1024 characters).
void	setLineSeparatorDetectionEnabled(boolean lineSeparatorDetectionEnabled) Defines whether the parser should detect the line separator automatically.
void	setNumberOfRecordsToRead(long numberOfRecordsToRead) Defines the number of valid records to be parsed before the process is stopped.
void	setNumberOfRowsToSkip(long numberOfRowsToSkip) Defines a number of rows to skip from the input before the parser can begin to execute.
void	setProcessor(Processor<? extends Context> processor) Defines the callback implementation of the interface Processor which handles the lifecycle of the parsing process and processes each record extracted from the input
void	setReadInputOnSeparateThread(boolean readInputOnSeparateThread) Defines whether or not a separate thread will be used to read characters from the input while parsing (defaults true if the number of available processors at runtime is greater than 1)
void	setRowProcessor(RowProcessor processor) Deprecated. Use the setProcessor(Processor) method as it allows format-specific processors to be built to work with different implementations of Context. Implementations based on RowProcessor allow only parsers who provide a ParsingContext to be used.

Methods inherited from class com.univocity.parsers.common.CommonSettings

createDefaultFormat, excludeFields, excludeFields, excludeIndexes, getErrorContentLength, getFormat, getHeaders, getIgnoreLeadingWhitespaces, getIgnoreTrailingWhitespaces, getMaxCharsPerColumn, getMaxColumns, getNullValue, getProcessorErrorHandler, getRowProcessorErrorHandler, getSkipEmptyLines, isAutoConfigurationEnabled, isProcessorErrorHandlerDefined, selectFields, selectFields, selectIndexes, setAutoConfigurationEnabled, setErrorContentLength, setFormat, setHeaders, setIgnoreLeadingWhitespaces, setIgnoreTrailingWhitespaces, setMaxCharsPerColumn, setMaxColumns, setNullValue, setProcessorErrorHandler, setRowProcessorErrorHandler, setSkipEmptyLines, toString, trimValues

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CommonParserSettings

public CommonParserSettings()

Method Detail

getReadInputOnSeparateThread

public boolean getReadInputOnSeparateThread()

Indicates whether or not a separate thread will be used to read characters from the input while parsing (defaults true if the number of available processors at runtime is greater than 1)

When enabled, a reading thread (in com.univocity.parsers.common.input.concurrent.ConcurrentCharInputReader) will be started and load characters from the input, while the parser is processing its input buffer. This yields better performance, especially when reading from big input (greater than 100 mb)

When disabled, the parsing process will briefly pause so the buffer can be replenished every time it is exhausted (in DefaultCharInputReader it is not as bad or slow as it sounds, and can even be (slightly) more efficient if your input is small)

Returns:

true if the input should be read on a separate thread, false otherwise

setReadInputOnSeparateThread

public void setReadInputOnSeparateThread(boolean readInputOnSeparateThread)

Defines whether or not a separate thread will be used to read characters from the input while parsing (defaults true if the number of available processors at runtime is greater than 1)

When enabled, a reading thread (in com.univocity.parsers.common.input.concurrent.ConcurrentCharInputReader) will be started and load characters from the input, while the parser is processing its input buffer. This yields better performance, especially when reading from big input (greater than 100 mb)

When disabled, the parsing process will briefly pause so the buffer can be replenished every time it is exhausted (in DefaultCharInputReader it is not as bad or slow as it sounds, and can even be (slightly) more efficient if your input is small)

Parameters:

readInputOnSeparateThread - the flag indicating whether or not the input should be read on a separate thread

isHeaderExtractionEnabled

public boolean isHeaderExtractionEnabled()

Indicates whether or not the first valid record parsed from the input should be considered as the row containing the names of each column

Returns:

true if the first valid record parsed from the input should be considered as the row containing the names of each column, false otherwise

setHeaderExtractionEnabled

public void setHeaderExtractionEnabled(boolean headerExtractionEnabled)

Defines whether or not the first valid record parsed from the input should be considered as the row containing the names of each column

Parameters:

headerExtractionEnabled - a flag indicating whether the first valid record parsed from the input should be considered as the row containing the names of each column

getRowProcessor

@Deprecated
public RowProcessor getRowProcessor()

Deprecated. Use the getProcessor() method as it allows format-specific processors to be built to work with different implementations of Context. Implementations based on RowProcessor allow only parsers who provide a ParsingContext to be used.

Returns the callback implementation of the interface RowProcessor which handles the lifecycle of the parsing process and processes each record extracted from the input

Returns:

Returns the RowProcessor used by the parser to handle each record

See Also:

ObjectRowProcessor, ObjectRowListProcessor, MasterDetailProcessor, MasterDetailListProcessor, BeanProcessor, BeanListProcessor

setRowProcessor

@Deprecated
public void setRowProcessor(RowProcessor processor)

Deprecated. Use the setProcessor(Processor) method as it allows format-specific processors to be built to work with different implementations of Context. Implementations based on RowProcessor allow only parsers who provide a ParsingContext to be used.

Defines the callback implementation of the interface RowProcessor which handles the lifecycle of the parsing process and processes each record extracted from the input

Parameters:

processor - the RowProcessor instance which should used by the parser to handle each record

See Also:

ObjectRowProcessor, ObjectRowListProcessor, MasterDetailProcessor, MasterDetailListProcessor, BeanProcessor, BeanListProcessor

getProcessor

public <T extends Context> Processor<T> getProcessor()

Returns the callback implementation of the interface Processor which handles the lifecycle of the parsing process and processes each record extracted from the input

Type Parameters:

T - the context type supported by the parser implementation.

Returns:

Returns the Processor used by the parser to handle each record

See Also:

AbstractObjectProcessor, AbstractObjectListProcessor, AbstractMasterDetailProcessor, AbstractMasterDetailListProcessor, AbstractBeanProcessor, AbstractBeanListProcessor

setProcessor

public void setProcessor(Processor<? extends Context> processor)

Defines the callback implementation of the interface Processor which handles the lifecycle of the parsing process and processes each record extracted from the input

Parameters:

processor - the Processor instance which should used by the parser to handle each record

See Also:

AbstractObjectProcessor, AbstractObjectListProcessor, AbstractMasterDetailProcessor, AbstractMasterDetailListProcessor, AbstractBeanProcessor, AbstractBeanListProcessor, AbstractColumnProcessor, AbstractColumnProcessor

getNumberOfRecordsToRead

public long getNumberOfRecordsToRead()

The number of valid records to be parsed before the process is stopped. A negative value indicates there's no limit (defaults to -1).

Returns:

the number of records to read before stopping the parsing process.

setNumberOfRecordsToRead

public void setNumberOfRecordsToRead(long numberOfRecordsToRead)

Defines the number of valid records to be parsed before the process is stopped. A negative value indicates there's no limit (defaults to -1).

Parameters:

numberOfRecordsToRead - the number of records to read before stopping the parsing process.

isColumnReorderingEnabled

public boolean isColumnReorderingEnabled()

Indicates whether fields selected using the field selection methods (defined by the parent class CommonSettings) should be reordered (defaults to true).

When disabled, each parsed record will contain values for all columns, in the order they occur in the input. Fields which were not selected will not be parsed but and the record will contain empty values.

When enabled, each parsed record will contain values only for the selected columns. The values will be ordered according to the selection.

Returns:

true if the selected fields should be reordered and returned by the parser, false otherwise

setColumnReorderingEnabled

public void setColumnReorderingEnabled(boolean columnReorderingEnabled)

Defines whether fields selected using the field selection methods (defined by the parent class CommonSettings) should be reordered (defaults to true).

When disabled, each parsed record will contain values for all columns, in the order they occur in the input. Fields which were not selected will not be parsed but and the record will contain empty values.

When enabled, each parsed record will contain values only for the selected columns. The values will be ordered according to the selection.

Parameters:

columnReorderingEnabled - the flag indicating whether or not selected fields should be reordered and returned by the parser

getInputBufferSize

public int getInputBufferSize()

Informs the number of characters held by the parser's buffer when processing the input (defaults to 1024*1024 characters).

Returns:

the number of characters held by the parser's buffer when processing the input

setInputBufferSize

public void setInputBufferSize(int inputBufferSize)

Defines the number of characters held by the parser's buffer when processing the input (defaults to 1024*1024 characters).

Parameters:

inputBufferSize - the new input buffer size (in number of characters)

newCharAppender

protected CharAppender newCharAppender()

Returns an instance of CharAppender with the configured limit of maximum characters per column and the default value used to represent a null value (when the String parsed from the input is empty)

Returns:

an instance of CharAppender with the configured limit of maximum characters per column and the default value used to represent a null value (when the String parsed from the input is empty)

isLineSeparatorDetectionEnabled

public final boolean isLineSeparatorDetectionEnabled()

Indicates whether the parser should detect the line separator automatically.

Returns:

true if the first line of the input should be used to search for common line separator sequences (the matching sequence will be used as the line separator for parsing). Otherwise false.

setLineSeparatorDetectionEnabled

public final void setLineSeparatorDetectionEnabled(boolean lineSeparatorDetectionEnabled)

Defines whether the parser should detect the line separator automatically.

Parameters:

lineSeparatorDetectionEnabled - a flag indicating whether the first line of the input should be used to search for common line separator sequences (the matching sequence will be used as the line separator for parsing).

getNumberOfRowsToSkip

public final long getNumberOfRowsToSkip()

Returns the number of rows to skip from the input before the parser can begin to execute.

Returns:

number of rows to skip before parsing

setNumberOfRowsToSkip

public final void setNumberOfRowsToSkip(long numberOfRowsToSkip)

Defines a number of rows to skip from the input before the parser can begin to execute.

Parameters:

numberOfRowsToSkip - number of rows to skip before parsing

addConfiguration

protected void addConfiguration(Map<String,Object> out)

Overrides:

addConfiguration in class CommonSettings<F extends Format>

isCommentCollectionEnabled

public boolean isCommentCollectionEnabled()

Indicates that comments found in the input must be collected (disabled by default). If enabled, comment lines will be stored by the parser and made available via AbstractParser.getContext().comments() and AbstractParser.getContext().lastComment()

Returns:

a flag indicating whether or not to enable collection of comments.

setCommentCollectionEnabled

public void setCommentCollectionEnabled(boolean commentCollectionEnabled)

Enables collection of comments found in the input (disabled by default). If enabled, comment lines will be stored by the parser and made available via AbstractParser.getContext().comments() and AbstractParser.getContext().lastComment()

Parameters:

commentCollectionEnabled - flag indicating whether or not to enable collection of comments.