EDIRecordReader Class (Extends RecordReader)

Overview

The EDIRecordReader is the generalized base class for several derived classes that deal with specific EDI syntaxes. In this chapter we develop an X12RecordReader derived class. However, as you'll see, the attributes and methods we develop here are applicable to other syntaxes, so we move them to a common base class.

Attributes:

  • Character Element Separator

  • Character Component Separator

  • Character Repetition Separator

  • Character Release Character

Methods:

  • Constructor

  • getRecordType

  • parseRecord

  • setFileDescriptionDocument

  • writeRecord

Methods

Constructor

The EDIRecordReader constructor method does very little processing. It calls the base RecordReader constructor method, passing along the null value for ...

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