FixedLength giving issues while trying to fetch only a subset of values

[Sanjeevkumar]

I do have a file which have many records or columns in a single row. This file is being used across multiple systems. Hence not all fields are required for my requirement. Hence if i set only a subset of values as shown below

<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.batch.item.file.transfo rm.FixedLengthTokenizer">
<beansroperty name="names" value="ab,bc,cd,de,ef" />
<beansroperty name="columns" value="26-34,55-55,138-141,186-186,361-369" />
</beans:bean>

I get an exception as below

Caused by: org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.Inco rrectLineLengthException: Line is longer than max range 369
at org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.Fixe dLengthTokenizer.doTokenize(FixedLengthTokenizer.j ava:126)
at org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.Abst ractLineTokenizer.tokenize(AbstractLineTokenizer.j ava:82)
at org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.Defaul tLineMapper.mapLine(DefaultLineMapper.java:46)
... 94 more


Do we have to do anything special to fetch only subset of values

[chudak]

This is a shortcoming of this particular implementation...you HAVE to process all the data in each record even if you don't need it....you can't pluck a subset of the data.

Edit: Looks like they may have recently changed the api? There is now a 'strict' flag on the tokenizer (so the above isn't true anymore):

http://static.springsource.org/sprin...Strict(boolean)

Public setter for the strict flag. If true (the default) then lines must be precisely the length specified by the columns. If false then shorter lines will be tolerated and padded with empty columns, and longer strings will simply be truncated.

[Sanjeevkumar]

Thanks a lot, strict works great.