org.apache.poi.hssf.dev
Class BiffViewer

java.lang.Object
  |
  +--org.apache.poi.hssf.dev.BiffViewer

public 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.lang.String[] args)
Creates new BiffViewer

Method Summary

static Record[]	createRecords(java.io.InputStream in, boolean dump) 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.lang.String[] args)

Creates new BiffViewer

Parameters:

args -

Method Detail

run

public void run()

Method run starts up BiffViewer...

createRecords

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

Parameters:

dump -

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

Parameters:

args -