JobDataCsv class

Provides access to JobDataCsv (a CSV-file that serves as JobData for a Job).

Overview

CSV files and other text files in a suitable format provide records for generating output. Use JobDataCsv to supply the file as the JobData of a Job.

The data in such a file provides the values of the DataFields. Each line (except the first one - see below) is treated as a Record. TFORMer SDK matches the column names in the file with the corresponding DataField names in the FormLayout. Therefore the first row of the file must contain the DataField names, separated by a separator character. All other rows contain the DataField values, again separated by a separator character. Each value or name of a DataField may be enclosed in optional qualifier characters. This is useful if the separator character may be part of a DataField value.

The default separator is a comma (,) and the default qualifier is a double quote ("). Set the qualifier to the null character ('\0') if the file uses no qualifiers.

Example

The following example file contains 2 records. The first line lists the DataField-names. The comma (,) is used as separator character and the double quote (") is used as qualifier character:

"Email","JobTitle","Name"
"support@tec-it.com","Support Engineer","Mr. Harald Backoffice"
"sales@tec-it.com","Sales Assistant","Mrs. Susan Frontdesk"


Save the CSV data above as a file and update the input path in the example to match its location. The example imports this file and generates PDF output.

  // Create a new Job instance
  Job printJob = new Job();

  // Select the FormLayout (stand-alone or Repository-based)
  // ...

  // Create a new JobData instance
  // Here we import a CSV and specify separator and qualifier character
  JobDataCsv jobData = new JobDataCsv("c:/temp/Import.txt", ',', '"');

  // Assign the JobData to the Job
  printJob.setJobData(jobData);

  // Select PDF output to /temp/out.pdf
  printJob.setOutputName  ("/temp/out.pdf");
  printJob.setPrinterType (EPrinterType.PDFFile);

  // Generate output based on the FormLayout and the JobData
  printJob.print ();

More Information

For a general description see JobData.