de.siegmar.fastcsv.reader

Class CsvParser

java.lang.Object

de.siegmar.fastcsv.reader.CsvParser

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Closeable, java.lang.AutoCloseable

public final class CsvParser
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.io.Closeable

This class is responsible for parsing CSV data from the passed-in Reader.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	close()
java.util.List<java.lang.String>	getHeader() Returns the header fields - null if no header exists.
CsvRow	nextRow() Reads a complete CsvRow that might be made up of multiple lines in the underlying CSV file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getHeader

public java.util.List<java.lang.String> getHeader()

Returns the header fields - null if no header exists. The returned list is unmodifiable. Use CsvReader.setContainsHeader(boolean) to enable header parsing. Also note, that the header is only available after first invocation of nextRow().

Returns:

the header fields

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if header parsing is not enabled or nextRow() wasn't called before.

nextRow

public CsvRow nextRow()
               throws java.io.IOException

Reads a complete CsvRow that might be made up of multiple lines in the underlying CSV file.

Returns:

a CsvRow or null if end of file reached

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an error occurred while reading data

close

public void close()
           throws java.io.IOException

Specified by:

close in interface java.io.Closeable

Specified by:

close in interface java.lang.AutoCloseable

Throws:

java.io.IOException