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package com.univocity.parsers.common;
import com.univocity.parsers.common.record.*;
/**
* Basic context information used internally by instances of {@link com.univocity.parsers.common.processor.core.Processor} and {@link com.univocity.parsers.common.record.Record}.
*
* @author uniVocity Software Pty Ltd - [email protected]
* @see DefaultContext
* @see ParsingContext
* @see DefaultParsingContext
*/
public interface Context {
/**
* Returns the file headers that identify each parsed record.
*
* @return the headers used to identify each record parsed from the input.
*/
String[] headers();
/**
* Returns the sequence of headers that have been selected. If no selection has been made, all available headers
* will be returned, producing the same output as a call to method {@link #headers()}.
*
* @return the sequence of selected headers, or all headers if no selection has been made.
*/
String[] selectedHeaders();
/**
* Returns the indexes of each field extracted from the input when fields are selected.
*
* The indexes are relative to their original position in the input.
*
For example, if the input has the fields "A, B, C, D", and the selected fields are "A, D", then the extracted field indexes will return [0, 3]
*
*
If no fields were selected, then this method will return null. This means all fields are being parsed.
*
* @return The indexes of each selected field; null if no fields were selected.
*
* @see com.univocity.parsers.common.CommonSettings
*/
int[] extractedFieldIndexes();
/**
* Indicates whether selected fields are being reordered.
*
*
If columns are reordered, each parsed record will contain values only for the selected fields, as specified by {@link #extractedFieldIndexes()}
*
* @return true if the parsed records are being reordered by the parser, false otherwise
*
* @see com.univocity.parsers.common.CommonParserSettings
* @see com.univocity.parsers.common.CommonSettings
*/
boolean columnsReordered();
/**
* Returns the position of a header (0 based).
*
* @param header the header whose position will be returned
*
* @return the position of the given header, or -1 if it could not be found.
*/
int indexOf(String header);
/**
* Returns the position of a header (0 based).
*
* @param header the header whose position will be returned
*
* @return the position of the given header, or -1 if it could not be found.
*/
int indexOf(Enum header);
/**
* Returns the column index of the record being processed.
*
* @return the column index of the record being processed.
*/
int currentColumn();
/**
* Returns the index of the last valid record parsed from the input
*
* @return the index of the last valid record parsed from the input
*/
long currentRecord();
/**
* Stops the parsing process. Any open resources in use by the parser are closed automatically.
*/
void stop();
/**
* Identifies whether the parser is running.
*
* @return true if the parser is stopped, false otherwise.
*/
boolean isStopped();
/**
* Returns the length limit of parsed contents appearing in exception messages when an error occurs
*
*
If {@code 0}, then no exceptions will include the content being manipulated in their attributes,
* and the {@code ""} string will appear in error messages as the parsed content.
*
* defaults to {@code -1} (no limit)
.
*
* @return the maximum length of the data content to display in exception messages
*/
int errorContentLength();
/**
* Converts the given parsed row to a {@link Record}
*
* @param row the row to be converted into a {@link Record}
*
* @return a {@link Record} representing the given row.
*/
Record toRecord(String[] row);
/**
* Returns the metadata information associated with records produced by the current parsing process.
*
* @return the record metadata.
*/
RecordMetaData recordMetaData();
}