com.univocity.parsers.csv
Class CsvWriter

java.lang.Object
  com.univocity.parsers.common.AbstractWriter<CsvWriterSettings>
      com.univocity.parsers.csv.CsvWriter

public class CsvWriter
extends AbstractWriter<CsvWriterSettings>

A powerful and flexible CSV writer implementation.

Author:

uniVocity Software Pty Ltd - [email protected]

See Also:

CsvFormat, CsvWriterSettings, CsvParser, AbstractWriter

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.univocity.parsers.common.AbstractWriter

appender, emptyValue, nullValue

Constructor Summary

CsvWriter(Writer writer, CsvWriterSettings settings)
The CsvWriter supports all settings provided by CsvWriterSettings, and requires this configuration to be properly initialized.

Method Summary

protected void

processRow(Object[] row) Format-specific implementation for writing a single record into the output.

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

appendToRow, appendValueToRow, close, commentRow, flush, getStringValue, processRecord, processRecord, processRecords, processRecords, processRecordsAndClose, processRecordsAndClose, skipLeadingWhitespace, writeEmptyRow, writeHeaders, writeHeaders, writeHeaders, writeRow, writeRow, writeRow, writeRows, writeRows, writeRows, writeRowsAndClose, writeRowsAndClose, writeRowsAndClose

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CsvWriter

public CsvWriter(Writer writer,
                 CsvWriterSettings settings)

The CsvWriter supports all settings provided by CsvWriterSettings, and requires this configuration to be properly initialized.

Parameters:

writer - the output resource that will receive CSV records produced by this class.

settings - the CSV writer configuration

Method Detail

processRow

protected void processRow(Object[] row)

Format-specific implementation for writing a single record into the output.

The AbstractWriter handles the initialization and processing of the output until it is ready to be written (generally, reorganizing it and passing it on to a RowWriterProcessor).

It then delegates the record to the writer-specific implementation defined by AbstractWriter.processRow(Object[]). In general, an implementation of AbstractWriter.processRow(Object[]) will perform the following steps:

• Iterate over each object in the given input and convert it to the expected String representation.
• The conversion must happen using the provided AbstractWriter.appender object. The an individual value is processed, the AbstractWriter.appendValueToRow() method must be called. This will clear the accumulated value in AbstractWriter.appender and add it to the output row.
• Format specific separators and other characters must be introduced to the output row using AbstractWriter.appendToRow(char)

Once the AbstractWriter.processRow(Object[]) method returns, a row will be written to the output with the processed information, and a newline will be automatically written after the given contents. The newline character sequence will conform to what is specified in Format.getLineSeparator()

This cycle repeats until the writing process is stopped by the user or an error happens.

In case of errors, the unchecked exception TextWritingException will be thrown and all resources in use will be closed automatically. The exception should contain the cause and more information about the output state when the error happened.

Specified by:

processRow in class AbstractWriter<CsvWriterSettings>

Parameters:

row - the data to be written to the output in the expected format.

See Also:

CharAppender, CommonWriterSettings