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package com.univocity.parsers.fixed;

import com.univocity.parsers.common.*;

import java.util.*;

/**
 * The Fixed-Width format configuration. In addition to the default configuration in {@link Format}, the fixed-width format defines:
 *
 * 
 * padding (defaults to ' '):  the character used for filling unwritten spaces in a fixed-width record.
 * e.g. if a field has a length of 5 characters, but the value is 'ZZ', the field should contain [ZZ   ] (i.e. ZZ followed by 3 unwritten spaces).
 * 
If the padding is set to '_', then the field will be written as [ZZ___]
 * 
 *
 * @author uniVocity Software Pty Ltd - [email protected]
 * @see com.univocity.parsers.common.Format
 */
public class FixedWidthFormat extends Format {

	private char padding = ' ';

	/**
	 * Returns the padding character used to represent unwritten spaces. Defaults to ' '
	 *
	 * @return the padding character
	 */
	public char getPadding() {
		return padding;
	}

	/**
	 * Defines the padding character used to represent unwritten spaces. Defaults to ' '
	 *
	 * @param padding the padding character
	 */
	public void setPadding(char padding) {
		this.padding = padding;
	}

	/**
	 * Identifies whether or not a given character represents a padding character
	 *
	 * @param padding the character to be verified
	 *
	 * @return true if the given character is the padding character, false otherwise
	 */
	public boolean isPadding(char padding) {
		return this.padding == padding;
	}

	@Override
	protected TreeMap getConfiguration() {
		TreeMap out = new TreeMap();
		out.put("Padding", padding);
		return out;
	}

	@Override
	public final FixedWidthFormat clone() {
		return (FixedWidthFormat) super.clone();
	}
}