README.md

paradoxReader

Paradox Database File Reader

Maven Coordinates

<groupId>com.khubla.pdxreader</groupId>
<artifactId>pdxreader</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>

Using the paradoxReader from the command line

The command-line interface produces CSV from .DB files. An example invocation of the command-line interface which produces CSV from "CONTACTS.DB" is:

java -jar target/paradoxReader-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar --file=src/test/resources/CONTACTS.DB

Using the paradoxReader in code

To use the paradoxReader in code, supply an InputStream to a .DB file, and an implementation of PDXReaderListener to the class DBTableFile. An example from the unit tests:

final InputStream inputStream = TestDBFile.class.getResourceAsStream(filename);
final DBTableFile pdxFile = new DBTableFile();
final PDXReaderListener pdxReaderListener = new PDXReaderCSVListenerImpl();
pdxFile.read(inputStream, pdxReaderListener);

The interface PDXReaderListener looks like this:

public interface PDXReaderListener {
   void finish();

   void header(DBTableHeader pdxTableHeader);

   void record(List<DBTableValue> values);

   void start();
}

The record method will be called once per record in the table file.