2.9. Configuring Fixed-Length Records

Tom Fennelly   M 21 IE
Maurice Zeijen M 27 NL

public class Person {
    private String firstname;
    private String lastname;
    private String country;
    private String gender;
    private int age;
}

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd"  xmlns:fl="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/fixed-length-1.3.xsd">
 
    <fl:reader fields="firstname[10]?trim,lastname[10]?trim,gender[1],age[3]?trim,country[2]">
        <!-- Note how the field names match the property names on the Person class. -->
        <fl:listBinding BeanId="people" class="org.milyn.fixedlength.Person" />
    </fl:reader>
 
</smooks-resource-list>

Smooks smooks = new Smooks(configStream);
JavaResult result = new JavaResult();
 
smooks.filterSource(new StreamSource(fixedLengthStream), result);
 
List<Person> people = (List<Person>) result.getBean("people");

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd"  xmlns:fl="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/fixed-length-1.3.xsd">
 
    <fl:reader fields="firstname[10]?trim,lastname[10]?trim,gender[1],age[3]?trim,country[2]">
        <fl:mapBinding BeanId="people" class="org.milyn.fixedlength.Person" keyField="firstname" />
    </fl:reader>
        
</smooks-resource-list>

Smooks smooks = new Smooks(configStream);
JavaResult result = new JavaResult();
 
smooks.filterSource(new StreamSource(fixedLengthStream), result);
 
Map<String, Person> people = (Map<String, Person>) result.getBean("people");
 
Person tom = people.get("Tom");
Person mike = people.get("Maurice");