com.pervasive.datarush.schema

Interface RecordIdentifier

public interface RecordIdentifier

A discriminator for identifying text record types in multi-record schemas. Used by multi-record text file readers to determine how to parse a given record.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getError() Gets a description of the last record identification failure.
int	identifyRecord(String record) Determines the type of the given text record.

Method Detail

identifyRecord

int identifyRecord(String record)

Determines the type of the given text record.

Parameters:

record - the text of the record to identify

Returns:

the index of the identified type in the source schema; -1 if the type could not be identified.

getError

String getError()

Gets a description of the last record identification failure. This should only be called immediately after identifyRecord(String) has reported an error. If identifyRecord succeeds, the results of calling this method are undefined.

Returns:

the last error reported