org.deegree.io.dbaseapi
Class DBaseFile

java.lang.Object
  org.deegree.io.dbaseapi.DBaseFile

public class DBaseFile
extends Object

the datatypes of the dBase file and their representation as java types: dBase-type dBase-type-ID java-type character "C" String float "F" Float number "N" Double logical "L" String memo "M" String date "D" Date binary "B" ByteArrayOutputStream

Version:

$Revision: 9342 $, $Date: 2007-12-27 13:32:57 +0100 (Do, 27 Dez 2007) $

Author:

Andreas Poth, last edited by: $Author: apoth $

Constructor Summary

DBaseFile(String url)
constructor
only for reading a dBase file

DBaseFile(String url, FieldDescriptor[] fieldDesc)
constructor
only for writing a dBase file

Method Summary

void	close()
String	getColumn(String col_name)
int	getDataLength(String field)
String[]	getDataTypes()
String[]	getDataTypes(String[] fields)
FeatureType	getFeatureType()
Feature	getFRow(int rowNo) Returns a row of the dBase file as a Feature instance.
String[]	getProperties()
int	getRecordNum()
void	goTop() Positions the record pointer at the top of the table.
boolean	nextRecord() Advance the record pointer to the next record.
void	setFeatureType(FeatureType ft, Map<PropertyType,String> ftMapping) Overrides the default feature type (which is generated from all columns in the dbase file) to allow customized naming and ordering of properties.
void	setRecord(ArrayList recData) writes a data record to byte array representing the data section of the dBase file.
void	setRecord(int index, ArrayList recData) writes a data record to byte array representing the data section of the dBase file.
void	writeAllToFile() creates the dbase file and writes all data to it if the file specified by fname (s.o.) exists it will be deleted!

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DBaseFile

public DBaseFile(String url)
          throws IOException

constructor
only for reading a dBase file

Parameters:

url -

Throws:

IOException

DBaseFile

public DBaseFile(String url,
                 FieldDescriptor[] fieldDesc)
          throws DBaseException

constructor
only for writing a dBase file

Parameters:

url -

fieldDesc -

Throws:

DBaseException

Method Detail

close

public void close()

setFeatureType

public void setFeatureType(FeatureType ft,
                           Map<PropertyType,String> ftMapping)

Overrides the default feature type (which is generated from all columns in the dbase file) to allow customized naming and ordering of properties.

Parameters:

ft -

ftMapping -

getRecordNum

public int getRecordNum()
                 throws DBaseException

Returns:

number of records in the table

Throws:

DBaseException

goTop

public void goTop()
           throws DBaseException

Positions the record pointer at the top of the table.

Throws:

DBaseException

nextRecord

public boolean nextRecord()
                   throws DBaseException

Advance the record pointer to the next record.

Returns:

true if pointer has been increased

Throws:

DBaseException

getColumn

public String getColumn(String col_name)
                 throws DBaseException

Returns:

column's string value from the current row.

Throws:

DBaseException

getProperties

public String[] getProperties()
                       throws DBaseException

Returns:

properties (column headers) of the dBase-file

Throws:

DBaseException

getDataTypes

public String[] getDataTypes()
                      throws DBaseException

Returns:

datatype of each column of the database

Throws:

DBaseException

getDataLength

public int getDataLength(String field)
                  throws DBaseException

Parameters:

field -

Returns:

the size of a column

Throws:

DBaseException

getDataTypes

public String[] getDataTypes(String[] fields)
                      throws DBaseException

Parameters:

fields -

Returns:

the datatype of each column of the database specified by fields

Throws:

DBaseException

getFRow

public Feature getFRow(int rowNo)
                throws DBaseException

Returns a row of the dBase file as a Feature instance.

Parameters:

rowNo -

Returns:

a row of the dBase file as a Feature instance

Throws:

DBaseException

writeAllToFile

public void writeAllToFile()
                    throws IOException,
                           DBaseException

creates the dbase file and writes all data to it if the file specified by fname (s.o.) exists it will be deleted!

Throws:

IOException

DBaseException

setRecord

public void setRecord(ArrayList recData)
               throws DBaseException

writes a data record to byte array representing the data section of the dBase file. The method gets the data type of each field in recData from fieldDesc wich has been set at the constructor.

Parameters:

recData -

Throws:

DBaseException

setRecord

public void setRecord(int index,
                      ArrayList recData)
               throws DBaseException

writes a data record to byte array representing the data section of the dBase file. The method gets the data type of each field in recData from fieldDesc wich has been set at the constructor. index specifies the location of the retrieved record in the datasection. if an invalid index is used an exception will be thrown

Parameters:

index -

recData -

Throws:

DBaseException

getFeatureType

public FeatureType getFeatureType()

Returns:

the feature type of the generated features