loci.poi.hssf.dev

Class BiffViewer

java.lang.Object

loci.poi.hssf.dev.BiffViewer

public class BiffViewer
extends Object

Utillity for reading in BIFF8 records and displaying data from them.

Author:

Andrew C. Oliver (acoliver at apache dot org), Glen Stampoultzis (glens at apache.org)

See Also:

main(java.lang.String[])

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
(package private) static class	BiffViewer.BiffviewRecordInputStream
(package private) static class	BiffViewer.RecordDetails This record supports dumping of completed continue records.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
private boolean	dump
(package private) String	filename

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BiffViewer(String[] args) Creates new BiffViewer

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
private static Record	createRecord(RecordInputStream in) Essentially a duplicate of RecordFactory.
static Record[]	createRecords(InputStream in, boolean dump) Create an array of records from an input stream
private static void	dumpNormal(Record record, int startloc, short rectype, short recsize)
static void	main(String[] args) Method main with 1 argument just run straight biffview against given file
void	run() Method run starts up BiffViewer...
void	setDump(boolean dump) Method setDump - hex dump out data or not.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

filename

String filename

dump

private boolean dump

Constructor Detail

BiffViewer

public BiffViewer(String[] args)

Creates new BiffViewer

Parameters:

args -

Method Detail

run

public void run()

Method run starts up BiffViewer...

createRecords

public static Record[] createRecords(InputStream in,
                     boolean dump)
                              throws RecordFormatException

Create an array of records from an input stream

Parameters:

in - the InputStream from which the records will be obtained

dump -

Returns:

an array of Records created from the InputStream

Throws:

RecordFormatException - on error processing the InputStream

dumpNormal

private static void dumpNormal(Record record,
              int startloc,
              short rectype,
              short recsize)

createRecord

private static Record createRecord(RecordInputStream in)

Essentially a duplicate of RecordFactory. Kept seperate as not to screw up non-debug operations.

setDump

public void setDump(boolean dump)

Method setDump - hex dump out data or not.

Parameters:

dump -

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Method main with 1 argument just run straight biffview against given file

with 2 arguments where the second argument is "on" - run biffviewer

with hex dumps of records

with 2 arguments where the second argument is "bfd" just run a big fat hex dump of the file...don't worry about biffviewing it at all

Define the system property poi.deserialize.escher to turn on deserialization of escher records.