I'm trying to read data from a text file and create Item Objects with it.
Item Objects have fields String title, String formatt, boolean onLoan, String loanedTo and String dateLoaned. In my save()method, I print every object to a text file in a new line and the fields are seperated by "$" (dollar sign). How can I read the text file line by line and create a new object from each line and add it to an array.
TextFile Example:
StarWars$DVD$false$null$null
Aliens$Bluray$true$John$Monday
public void save() {
String[] array2 = listForSave();
PrintWriter printer = null;
try {
printer = new PrintWriter(file);
for (String o : array2) {
printer.println(o);
}
printer.close();
} catch ( IOException e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void open(){
try{
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
String line;
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
stringBuffer.append(line);
stringBuffer.append("\n");
}
fileReader.close();
System.out.println("Contents of file:");
System.out.println(stringBuffer.toString());
}catch ( IOException e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Thanks everyone. Here's my final code:
public void open(){
try{
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
String line;
String[] strings;
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
strings = line.split("\\$");
String title = strings[0];
String format = strings[1];
boolean onLoan = Boolean.parseBoolean(strings[2]);
String loanedTo = strings[3];
String dateLoaned = strings[4];
MediaItem superItem = new MediaItem(title,format, onLoan,loanedTo,dateLoaned);
items.add(superItem);
}
fileReader.close();
}catch ( IOException e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
String line = // input line e.g. "Aliens$Bluray$true$John$Monday"
String[] strings = line.split("\\$"); // use regex matching "$" to split
String title = strings[0];
String formatt = strings[1];
boolean onLoan = Boolean.parseBoolean(strings[2]);
String loanedTo = strings[3];
String dateLoaned = strings[4];
// TODO: create object from those values
Maybe you need to handle null differently (in case you want the String "null" to be converted to null); note that you can't distinguish if null or "null" was saved.
This function converts "null" to null and returns the same string otherwise:
String convert(String s) {
return s.equals("null") ? null : s;
}
Reading the objects to an array
Since you don't know the number of elements before reading all lines, you have to work around that:
Write the number of objects in the file as first line, which would allow you to create the array before reading the first object. (Use Integer.parseInt(String) to convert the first line to int):
public void save() {
String[] array2 = listForSave();
PrintWriter printer = null;
try {
printer = new PrintWriter(file);
printer.println(array2.length);
for (String o : array2) {
printer.println(o);
}
printer.close();
} catch ( IOException e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void open(){
try{
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
int arraySize = Integer.parseInt(stringBuffer.readLine());
Object[] array = new Object[arraySize];
int index = 0;
String line;
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
// split line and create Object (see above)
Object o = // ...
array[index++] = o;
}
//...
}catch ( IOException e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
//...
}
or
Use a Collection, e.g. ArrayList to store the objects and use List.toArray(T[]) to get an array.
quick and dirty solution might be...
public void open(){
try{
ArrayList<Item> list = new ArrayList<Item>(); //Array of your ItemObject
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
String line;
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
Item itm = new Item(); //New Item Object
String [] splitLine = line.split("\\$");
item.title = splitLine[0];
item.format = splitLine[1];
item.onLoan = Boolean.parseBoolean(splitLine[2]);
item.loanedTo = splitLine[3];
item.dateLoaned = splitLine[4];
list.add(itm);
stringBuffer.append(line);
stringBuffer.append("\n");
}
fileReader.close();
System.out.println("Contents of file:");
System.out.println(stringBuffer.toString());
}catch ( IOException e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
But this is won't scale if you need to re-arrange or add new fields.
You could try this to "parse" every line of your file
String[] result = "StarWars$DVD$false$null$null".split("\\$");
for (int i=0; i<result.length; i++) {
String field = result[i]
... put the strings in your object ...
}
Related
How do I skip the first element from a String Array?
Another quick approach is to control the line reads through flag like below:
public List<Beruf> fileRead(String filePath) throws IOException {
List<Beruf> berufe = new ArrayList<Beruf>();
String line = "";
try {
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(filePath);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
Boolean firstLine = Boolean.TRUE;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
if(firstLine) {
firstLine = Boolean.FALSE;
continue;
}
String[] attributes = line.split(";");
Beruf beruf = createBeruf(attributes);
berufe.add(beruf);
}
reader.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return berufe;
}
The easiest way to remove the header line would be to just read it before you enter your while loop.
String filePath = path;
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(filePath);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
String headers = reader.readLine(); //This removes the first line from the BufferedReader
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
String[] attributes = line.split(";");
Beruf beruf = createBeruf(attributes);
berufe.add(beruf);
}
reader.close();
If you use java 8 or higher and are allowed to use streams you could also use the lines method of the Files class
Files.lines(Paths.get(filePath))
.skip(1) // skipping the headers
.map(line -> line.split(";"))
.map(attributes -> createBeruf(attributes))
.forEach(beruf -> berufe.add(beruf));
I am trying to save the contents of a word file line by line into a LinkedList.
What am I doing wrong? The console is showing that it is definatley reading the file but not saving its contents?
public class SpellCheck {
LinkedList<String> lines = new LinkedList();
boolean suggestWord ;
public static void main(String[] args) throws java.io.IOException{
System.out.println("Welcome to the spellchecker");
LinkedList<String> list = new LinkedList<String>();
try {
File f = new File("input/dictionary.txt");
FileReader r = new FileReader(f);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(r);
String line = null;
String word = new String();
while((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
{
list.add(word);
word = new String();
}
reader.close();
}catch(IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
for(int i = 0; i<list.size();i++){
System.out.println(list.get(i));
}
}
}
You are adding word which is an empty string instead of adding line which you read from file:
String word = new String();
while((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
{
list.add(word);
^^^^^
word = new String();
}
It should be:
while((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
list.add(line);
}
I have a CSV log file and it contains many rows like this:
2016-06-21 12:00:00,000 : helloworld: header1=2;header2=6;header=0
I want to write them to a new CSV file.
public void readLogFile() throws Exception
{
String currentLine = "";
String nextLine = "";
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file(false)));
while ((currentLine = reader.readLine()) != null)
{
if (currentLine.contains("2016") == true)
{
nextLine = reader.readLine();
if (nextLine.contains("helloworld") == true)
{
currentLine = currentLine.substring(0, 23);
nextLine = nextLine.substring(22, nextLine.length());
String nextBlock = replaceAll(nextLine);
System.out.println(currentLine + " : helloworld: " + nextBlock);
String[] data = nextBlock.split(";");
for (int i = 0, max = data.length; i < max; i++)
{
String[] d = data[i].split("=");
map.put(d[0], d[1]);
}
}
}
}
reader.close();
}
This is my method to write the content:
public void writeContentToCsv() throws Exception
{
FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(".../file_new.csv");
for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : map.entrySet())
{
writer.append(entry.getKey()).append(";").append(entry.getValue()).append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
}
writer.close();
}
This is the output I want to have:
header1; header2; header3
2;6;0
1;5;1
5;8;8
...
Currently, the CSV file looks like this (only showing one dataset):
header1;4
header2;0
header3;0
Can anyone help me fix the code?
Create a class to store the header values, and store it in the list.
Iterate over the list to save the results.
The currently used map can only store 2 values (which it is storing the header value (name its corresponding value)
map.put(d[0], d[1]);
here d[0] will be header1 and d[1] will be 4 (but we want only 4 from here)
class Headervalues {
String[] header = new String[3];
}
public void readLogFile() throws Exception
{
List<HeaderValues> list = new ArrayList<>();
String currentLine = "";
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file(false)));
while ((currentLine = reader.readLine()) != null)
{
if (currentLine.contains("2016") && currentLine.contains("helloworld"))
{
String nextBlock = replaceAll(currentLine.substring(22, currentLine.length());
String[] data = nextBlock.split(";");
HeaderValues headerValues = new HeaderValues();
//Assuming data.length will always be 3.
for (int i = 0, max = data.length; i < max; i++)
{
String[] d = data[i].split("=");
//Assuming split will always have size 2
headerValues.header[i] = d[1];
}
list.add(headerValues)
}
}
}
reader.close();
}
public void writeContentToCsv() throws Exception
{
FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(".../file_new.csv");
for (HeaderValues value : headerValues)
{
writer.append(value.header[0]).append(";").append(value.header[1]).append(";").append(value.header[2]);
}
writer.close();
}
For writing to CSV
public void writeCSV() {
// Delimiter used in CSV file
private static final String NEW_LINE_SEPARATOR = "\n";
// CSV file header
private static final Object[] FILE_HEADER = { "Empoyee Name","Empoyee Code", "In Time", "Out Time", "Duration", "Is Working Day" };
String fileName = "fileName.csv");
List<Objects> objects = new ArrayList<Objects>();
FileWriter fileWriter = null;
CSVPrinter csvFilePrinter = null;
// Create the CSVFormat object with "\n" as a record delimiter
CSVFormat csvFileFormat = CSVFormat.DEFAULT.withRecordSeparator(NEW_LINE_SEPARATOR);
try {
fileWriter = new FileWriter(fileName);
csvFilePrinter = new CSVPrinter(fileWriter, csvFileFormat);
csvFilePrinter.printRecord(FILE_HEADER);
// Write a new student object list to the CSV file
for (Object object : objects) {
List<String> record = new ArrayList<String>();
record.add(object.getValue1().toString());
record.add(object.getValue2().toString());
record.add(object.getValue3().toString());
csvFilePrinter.printRecord(record);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
fileWriter.flush();
fileWriter.close();
csvFilePrinter.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Read and write/append CSV file using org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser.
public void appendCSV(){
String [] records = {};
String csvWrite= "";
Boolean status = false;
try(BufferedReader csvReaders = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("csvfile.csv"));
CSVParser parser = CSVFormat.DEFAULT.withDelimiter(',').withHeader().parse(csvReaders);
) {
for(CSVRecord record : parser) {
status= record.get("Microservice").equalsIgnoreCase(apipath);
int status_code=0;
String httpMethod = record.get("Method");
if(status==true) {
csvWrite = record.get("apiName")+"-"+record.get("Microservice")+"-"+record.get("R_Data")+"-"+record.get("Method")+"-"+record.get("A_Status")+"-"+400+"-"+record.get("A_Response")+"-"+"{}";
records = csvWrite.split("-");
CSVWriter writer = new CSVWriter(new FileWriter(pathTowritecsv,true));
writer.writeNext(records);
writer.close();
}else {
}
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
I was working a little bit with config files and file reader classes in java.
I always read/wrote in the files with arrays because I was working with objects.
This looked a little bit like this:
public void loadUserData(ArrayList<User> arraylist) {
try {
List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(path, Charset.defaultCharset());
for(String line : lines) {
String[] userParams = line.split(";");
String name = userParams[0];
String number= userParams[1];
String mail = userParams[2];
arraylist.add(new User(name, number, mail));
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
This works fine, but how can I save the content of a file as only one single string?
When I read a file, the string I use should be the exact same as the content of the file (without the use of arrays or line splits).
how can I do that?
Edit:
I try to read a SQL-Statement out of a file to use it with JDBC later on. That's why I need the content of the File as a single String
This method will work
public static void readFromFile() throws Exception{
FileReader fIn = new FileReader("D:\\Test.txt");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fIn);
String line = null;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
sb.append("\n");
}
String text = sb.toString();
System.out.println(text);
}
I hope this is what you need:
public void loadUserData(ArrayList<User> arraylist) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
try {
List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(path, Charset.defaultCharset());
for(String line : lines) {
// String[] userParams = line.split(";");
//String name = userParams[0];
//String number= userParams[1];
//String mail = userParams[2];
sb.append(line);
}
String jdbcString = sb.toString();
System.out.println("JDBC statements read from file: " + jdbcString );
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
or maybe this:
String content = new Scanner(new File("filename")).useDelimiter("\\Z").next();
System.out.println(content);
Just do that:
final FileChannel fc;
final String theFullStuff;
try (
fc = FileChannel.open(path, StandardOpenOptions.READ);
) {
final ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(fc.size());
fc.read(buf);
theFullStuff = new String(buf.array(), theCharset);
}
nio for the win! :p
You could always create a Buffered reader e.g.
File anInputFile = new File(/*input path*/);
FileReader aFileReader = new FileReader(anInputFile);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(aFileReader)
String yourSingleString = "";
String aLine = reader.readLine();
while(aLine != null)
{
singleString += aLine + " ";
aLine = reader.readLine();
}
I am parsing a file data on the base of \t what I want if found more then one \t start parsing from next new line and start arraylist words from 0.
public static void readFile() throws IOException {
String line;
ArrayList<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();
try {
BufferedReader inFile = new BufferedReader (new FileReader ("/weather.txt"));
while ((line = inFile.readLine()) != null) {
StringTokenizer token= new StringTokenizer(line,"\t");
while (token.hasMoreTokens()) {
words.add(token.nextToken());
}
/*
* function to print the values
*/
getMetadataTriple(words);
}
}
Try the following regex solution:
public static void readFile() throws IOException
{
String line;
ArrayList<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();
try
{
BufferedReader inFile = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("weather.txt"));
while ((line = inFile.readLine()) != null)
{
String[] temp = line.split("\\t");
for (String s : temp)
{
if(!s.isEmpty())
{
words.add(s);
}
else //another \t
{
words.clear();
break;
}
}
/*
* function to print the values
*/
getMetadataTriple(words);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}