field – Giancarlo Parma

The Fixefid 3.0.0 has been released.

Fixefid is a Java library for working with flat fixed formatted text files and CSV files.

A lot of improvements has been carried out:

Validation: now it’s possibile to obtain the validation info of all fields. That’s simplify the error management. For instance, if something goes wrong during the processing of the input string, no exception is thrown, and it’s possibile to obtain the validation error info of all fields.
Annotation: all configurations can be managed with annotations. The extended properties style has been maintained but only for advanced configuration, like call back needs.
Valid values accepted list in field annotation
Enum style: it’s been deprecated and not longer supported
Minor bug fixes and enhancements

Converting fixed fields text record to JSON can be realized in many ways. A solution can be the using of a REST Service combined with the Fixefid java library.

The environment is as a follows:

Java 8
Spring Boot 2.3.4.RELEASE
Spring Web
Fixefid 1.1.0
Spring Doc Openapi 1.5.0

The Fixefid java library permits to define a fixed fields text record with Java Bean or Java Enum. In this case the definition by Java Bean can be used to annotate a resource representation class of a REST Service.

For instance, we want converting a customer record like this one:

String record = "0000000000000000001Paul                                              Robinson                                          ";

to a json object like this one:

{
"id": 1,        
"firstName": "Paul",        
"lastName": "Robinson"    
}

To model the customer representation, we can create a resource representation class:

@FixefidRecord
public class Customer {
	@FixefidField(fieldLen = 19, fieldOrdinal = 0, fieldType = FieldType.N)
	private Long id;
@FixefidField(fieldLen = 50, fieldOrdinal = 1, fieldType = FieldType.AN)
private String firstName;

@FixefidField(fieldLen = 50, fieldOrdinal = 2, fieldType = FieldType.AN)
private String lastName;

protected Customer() {
}

public Customer(String firstName, String lastName) {
    this.firstName = firstName;
    this.lastName = lastName;
}

@Override
public String toString() {
    return String.format("Customer[id=%d, firstName='%s', lastName='%s']", id, firstName, lastName);
}

public Long getId() {
    return id;
}

public String getFirstName() {
    return firstName;
}

public String getLastName() {
    return lastName;
}
}

The resource representation class is annotated with the Fixefid annotations. Then we can create the record request:

public class RecordRequest {
	private Long requestId;
	private String record;

public String getRecord() {
    return record;
}

public void setRecord(String record) {
    this.record = record;
}

public Long getRequestId() {
    return requestId;
}

public void setRequestId(Long requestId) {
    this.requestId = requestId;
}
}

and the Customer response:

public class CustomerResponse {
	private Long requestId;
	private Long responseId;
	private Customer customer;

public CustomerResponse(Long requestId, Long responseId, Customer customer) {
    this.requestId = requestId;
    this.responseId = responseId;
    this.customer = customer;
}

public Long getRequestId() {
    return requestId;
}
public void setRequestId(Long requestId) {
    this.requestId = requestId;
}
public Long getResponseId() {
    return responseId;
}
public void setResponseId(Long responseId) {
    this.responseId = responseId;
}
public Customer getCustomer() {
    return customer;
}
public void setCustomer(Customer customer) {
    this.customer = customer;
}
}

last, the rest controller:

@RestController
public class CustomerController {
	private final AtomicLong counter = new AtomicLong();

        @PostMapping(path = "/recordtocustomer", consumes = 
        "application/json", produces = "application/json")
        public CustomerResponse recordToCustomer(@RequestBody RecordRequest 
           request) {
        Customer customer = new Customer(null, null);
        new BeanRecord(customer, request.getRecord());
        return new CustomerResponse(request.getRequestId(), 
        counter.incrementAndGet(), customer);
     }
}

With Postman we can test the service:

Here the project of the example on github.

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Fixefid 3.0.0 released!

Converting fixed fields text record to JSON

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