org.apache.poi.hssf.dev
Class BiffViewer

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.poi.hssf.dev.BiffViewer

public final class BiffViewer
extends java.lang.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[])

Constructor Summary

BiffViewer(java.io.File inFile, java.io.PrintStream ps)

Method Summary

static Record[]	createRecords(java.io.InputStream in, boolean dump, java.io.PrintStream ps) Create an array of records from an input stream
static void	main(java.lang.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

Constructor Detail

BiffViewer

public BiffViewer(java.io.File inFile,
                  java.io.PrintStream ps)

Method Detail

run

public void run()

Method run starts up BiffViewer...

createRecords

public static Record[] createRecords(java.io.InputStream in,
                                     boolean dump,
                                     java.io.PrintStream ps)
                              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

setDump

public void setDump(boolean dump)

Method setDump - hex dump out data or not.

main

public static void main(java.lang.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.