Package net.sf.clichart.data

This package contains classes for parsing tabular data from streams.

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Description

Interface Summary

DataParser	Interface for an object that can parse data from a stream, and pass it to a DataSink
DataSink	Interface for objects that can received events containing data parsed from some source
LineParser	Interface for an object that can parse a line of data, returning the field values as strings

Class Summary

AbstractDataParser	Abstract base class for data parsers.
CsvLineParser	A line parser for CSV data.
ParseUtils	Static helpers for parsing values etc.
TimeDataParser	Implementation of a DataParser for time-based data, i.e.
ValueDataParser	A parser that uses a numeric value for the X axis.
WhiteSpaceLineParser	A LineParser that splits the string based on white space

Exception Summary

InvalidDataException

Thrown to indicate that the data in a line is not valid

Package net.sf.clichart.data Description

This package contains classes for parsing tabular data from streams.

To use this package directly, you would:

• Create a LineParser of the appropriate type for the format of your data, i.e either a CsvLineParser or a WhiteSpaceLineParser. This is responsible for splitting each line of your data into separate fields
• Create a suitable DataSink implementation, which will receive an event for each line parsed. This is typically one of the ChartBuilder classes in the net.sf.clichart.data package
• Create a DataParser of the appropriate type for the format of the fields, passing it the LineParser and DataSink you just created.
  The choices are TimeDataParser (used when the X axis of your chart will be a date, time or date/time) and ValueDataParser (used when the X axis is a simple value, or when there is 'no' X value).
• Create a Reader for your data, and pass it to the DataParser.parse(java.io.Reader) method on your DataParser.

See the net.sf.clichart.main package for examples of using these classes.