IRISLIB database
FileCharacter Class Reference
Inheritance diagram for FileCharacter:
Collaboration diagram for FileCharacter:

Public Member Functions

_.Library.Boolean IsFileUnicode ()
 Returns true if the file is Unicode. More...
 
_.Library.Integer SizeGet ()
 Return the current size of the data stream. More...
 
_.Library.Status TranslateTableSet (_.Library.String table)
 If translation table is set after the file has been opened. More...
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from FileBinary
_.Library.Status OnClose ()
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>Close</METHOD> method to. More...
 
_.Library.Integer FileBinarySize ()
 Return the current size of the file in bytes.
 
_.Library.Status Flush ()
 Flush any output in the stream not already saved.
 
_.Library.Status LinkToFile (_.Library.String filename)
 This method lets you connect a file stream to a file called filename without. More...
 
_.Library.Status MoveToEnd ()
 Move to the end of the stream so the next <METHDO>Write</METHOD> will be appended to the end. More...
 
_.Library.Status OutputToDevice (_.Library.Integer len)
 Write out len characters of the stream to the current device starting from the current position. More...
 
_.Library.RawString Read (_.Library.Integer len, _.Library.Status sc)
 Reads up to len characters from the current position. More...
 
_.Library.RawString ReadLine (_.Library.Integer len, _.Library.Status sc, _.Library.Boolean eol, _.Library.String term)
 Read a line from the file. More...
 
_.Library.Status Rewind ()
 Go back to the start of the stream.
 
_.Library.Status Write (_.Library.RawString data)
 Appends the string data to the stream and advances the. More...
 
_.Library.Status WriteLine (_.Library.RawString data)
 Appends the string data along with a line terminator to the stream and advances the. More...
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from Object
_.Library.Status AcquireLock (locktype)
 Acquires a lock for the current instance. More...
 
_.Library.Status OnAfterSave (_.Library.Boolean insert)
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>Save</METHOD> method to. More...
 
_.Library.Status OnBeforeSave (_.Library.Boolean insert)
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>Save</METHOD> method to. More...
 
_.Library.Status OnOpen ()
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>Open</METHOD> method to. More...
 
_.Library.Status OnReload ()
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>Reload</METHOD> method to. More...
 
_.Library.Status OnRollBack ()
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>Save</METHOD> method to. More...
 
_.Library.Status Clear ()
 Clear the contents of this Stream from permanent storage. More...
 
_.Library.Status CopyFrom (_.Stream.Object source)
 Copies the contents of source into this Stream. More...
 
_.Library.Status CopyFromAndSave (_.Stream.Object source)
 Copy the stream from source into the current stream ignoring anything already in the current stream. More...
 
_.Library.Integer FindAt (_.Library.Integer position, _.Library.RawString target, _.Library.RawString tmpstr, _.Library.Boolean caseinsensitive)
 Find the first occurrence of target in the stream, starting the search at position. More...
 
_.Library.String GetStreamId ()
 Returns an full id value (including class name) with which the Stream implementation has stored. More...
 
_.Library.Status InputFromDevice (_.Library.Integer len, _.Library.Integer timeout)
 Input len characters from the current device into the stream. More...
 
_.Library.Boolean MoveTo (_.Library.Integer position)
 Move to this position in the stream. More...
 
_.Library.Status OutputToDeviceAt (_.Library.Integer position, _.Library.Integer length)
 Output the stream to the current device starting at position of length. More...
 
_.Library.RawString ReadLine (_.Library.Integer len, _.Library.Status sc, _.Library.Boolean eol)
 Read a line from the stream. More...
 
_.Library.String ReadSQL (_.Library.Integer start, _.Library.Integer end)
 SQL specific method for reading stream data.
 
_.Library.Status SerializeToSyncSet (_.SYNC.SyncSet ss, _.Library.Integer iPtr, _.Library.String property)
 SerializeToSyncSet copies the stream value from the current object to the sync set global. More...
 
_.Library.Status SyncStreamIn (_.SYNC.SyncSet ss, _.Library.Integer iPtr, _.Library.String property)
 SyncStreamIn copies the stream value from the sync set global into the current object.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from RegisteredObject
_.Library.Status OnAddToSaveSet (_.Library.Integer depth, _.Library.Integer insert, _.Library.Integer callcount)
 This callback method is invoked when the current object is added to the SaveSet,. More...
 
_.Library.Status OnConstructClone (_.Library.RegisteredObject object, _.Library.Boolean deep, _.Library.String cloned)
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>ConstructClone</METHOD> method to. More...
 
_.Library.Status OnNew ()
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>New</METHOD> method to. More...
 
_.Library.Status OnValidateObject ()
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>ValidateObject</METHOD> method to. More...
 

Public Attributes

 BOM
 BOM characters that appear at start of file to signify which encoding it is using. More...
 
 StreamFormatWrite
 The StreamFormatWrite property controls whether file output is in stream or undefined format. More...
 
 TranslateTable
 The translation table to be used when reading or writing the file. More...
 
- Public Attributes inherited from FileBinary
 CanonicalFilename
 Read only property that returns the canonical filename if the file is open and "" if the file is not open. More...
 
 Filename
 The filename that this stream is currently using. More...
 
 LineTerminator
 For file streams the line will terminate on any of the characters set in the LineTerminator, it does not support. More...
 
 ReadSize
 While reading this holds the file size. More...
 
 RemoveOnClose
 If true then remove the permanent file as well as any temp file when this object is closed. More...
 
- Public Attributes inherited from Object
 AtEnd
 The AtEnd property is set to true (1) when, during a read,. More...
 
 Id
 Id is the unique identifier for a stream within the Location. More...
 
 LastModified
 LastModified is a read-only property containing the <class>TimeStamp</class> of More...
 
 Size
 Size is a read-only property containing the current size of the stream (in bytes More...
 

Static Public Attributes

 OPENAPPEND = None
 
- Static Public Attributes inherited from Object
 DEFAULTCONCURRENCY = None
 
- Static Public Attributes inherited from RegisteredObject
 CAPTION = None
 Optional name used by the Form Wizard for a class when generating forms. More...
 
 JAVATYPE = None
 The Java type to be used when exported.
 
 PROPERTYVALIDATION = None
 This parameter controls the default validation behavior for the object. More...
 

Private Member Functions

_.Library.Integer IsModified ()
 Returns true (1) if a property of this instance has been modified, otherwise false (0). More...
 
_.Library.Integer ObjectModified ()
 This method is somewhat similar to IsModified but it also checks to see if swizzled. More...
 
_.Library.ObjectIdentity Oid ()
 Returns the OID of this object.
 

Additional Inherited Members

- Static Public Member Functions inherited from FileBinary
_.Library.String DefaultStreamDir (_.Library.Boolean skip)
 Return the default directory to use for streams if none specified.
 
- Static Public Member Functions inherited from Object
_.Library.String GetLockReference (_.Library.String pLocation, _.Library.String pId)
 Returns the global reference used to lock the current stream object. More...
 
_.Library.Status OnDelete (_.Library.ObjectIdentity oid)
 This callback method is invoked by the <METHOD>Delete</METHOD> method to. More...
 
_.Library.String IsCharacter ()
 Return true if this is a character stream and false if it is a binary stream.
 
_.Library.Boolean StreamOIDIsNull (_.Library.ObjectIdentity soid)
 Return true if this stream oid is a null stream and false if the stream is not null.
 

Detailed Description

For information on this class, see Working with Streams.

Stream class that stores character data in files. For example, the following code opens a file binary stream, points it at a particular file on the filesystem, and then reads it in chunks of 32,000 bytes:

Set stream=##class(Stream.FileCharacter).New() Set sc=stream.LinkToFile("c:\myfile.txt") While 'stream.AtEnd { Set line=stream.Read() ; Process the chunk here }

The difference between file character stream and file binary streams is that the character stream understands that it is writing character data and this may be subject to characterset translation. For example you may wish to utf-8 encode character data being written to the file, but with a binary file stream it is just a series of binary data and so this is always read/written exactly as it is without and translation. Also the file is written in 'S' mode so for example writing cr/lf on a unix system will just append lf as this is the unix line terminator.

Member Function Documentation

◆ IsModified()

_.Library.Integer IsModified ( )
private

Returns true (1) if a property of this instance has been modified, otherwise false (0).

A TRUE result does not necessarily mean that any property has actually been changed. If IsModified() returns false then the object has not been modified. There are some situations where we simply cannot efficiently detect a change in value. In these cases we will set the modified status of the property.

Reimplemented from FileBinary.

◆ ObjectModified()

_.Library.Integer ObjectModified ( )
private

This method is somewhat similar to IsModified but it also checks to see if swizzled.

references would cause the object to become modified should they be serialized. This works on the assumption that a reference to a persistent object will never be modified if the ID has already been assigned. For references to serial objects, a call to ObjectModified indicates whether or not the serialized value is different. If the reference to a swizzled object is different from the initial object state then the $$$objModAll macro will already return true. Reference the <property>Set code.

Returns true (1) if this instance has been modified, otherwise false (0).

Reimplemented from FileBinary.

◆ IsFileUnicode()

_.Library.Boolean IsFileUnicode ( )

Returns true if the file is Unicode.

This method may only be called after data has been read from the file stream.

◆ SizeGet()

_.Library.Integer SizeGet ( )

Return the current size of the data stream.

Note this is complicated by having to worry about the translate table used to write the file.

Reimplemented from FileBinary.

Reimplemented in FileCharacterGzip.

◆ TranslateTableSet()

_.Library.Status TranslateTableSet ( _.Library.String  table)

If translation table is set after the file has been opened.

then switch the table used for the file. If the translation table is set to "", then the "RAW" table is used.

Member Data Documentation

◆ OPENAPPEND

OPENAPPEND = None
static

For information on this class, see Working with Streams.

Stream class that stores character data in files. For example, the following code opens a file binary stream, points it at a particular file on the filesystem, and then reads it in chunks of 32,000 bytes:

Set stream=##class(Stream.FileCharacter).New() Set sc=stream.LinkToFile("c:\myfile.txt") While 'stream.AtEnd { Set line=stream.Read() ; Process the chunk here }

The difference between file character stream and file binary streams is that the character stream understands that it is writing character data and this may be subject to characterset translation. For example you may wish to utf-8 encode character data being written to the file, but with a binary file stream it is just a series of binary data and so this is always read/written exactly as it is without and translation. Also the file is written in 'S' mode so for example writing cr/lf on a unix system will just append lf as this is the unix line terminator.

◆ BOM

BOM

BOM characters that appear at start of file to signify which encoding it is using.

 

◆ StreamFormatWrite

StreamFormatWrite

The StreamFormatWrite property controls whether file output is in stream or undefined format.

If StreamFormatWrite is 1 (true), the default, the file is written in S (stream) format. If StreamFormatWrite is 0 (false), the file is written in U (Undefined) format. For Unix file output, S format converts crlf to lf which can be a problem for MIME output such as email. The user can now set messagepart.TextData.StreamFormatWrite=0 to keep crlf in text message parts of the mail message.  

◆ TranslateTable

TranslateTable

The translation table to be used when reading or writing the file.

See Translation Tables.
Initial value of 0 indicates that the table has not yet been set.
If the translation table is set after the file has been opened then switch the table used for the file. If the translation table is set to "", then the "RAW" table is used.