org.apache.poi.hssf.dev
Class BiffViewer

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.poi.hssf.dev.BiffViewer

public final class BiffViewer
extends java.lang.Object

Utility for reading in BIFF8 records and displaying data from them.

See Also:

main(java.lang.String[])

createRecords

public static Record[] createRecords(java.io.InputStream is,
                                     java.io.PrintWriter ps,
                                     org.apache.poi.hssf.dev.BiffViewer.BiffRecordListener recListener,
                                     boolean dumpInterpretedRecords)
                              throws RecordFormatException

Create an array of records from an input stream

Parameters:

is - the InputStream from which the records will be obtained

ps - the PrintWriter to output the record data

recListener - the record listener to notify about read records

dumpInterpretedRecords - if true, the read records will be written to the PrintWriter

Returns:

an array of Records created from the InputStream

Throws:

RecordFormatException - on error processing the InputStream

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)
                 throws java.io.IOException,
                        org.apache.poi.hssf.dev.BiffViewer.CommandParseException

Method main with 1 argument just run straight biffview against given file

Usage:

BiffViewer [--biffhex] [--noint] [--noescher] [--out] <fileName>

BiffViewer --rawhex [--out] <fileName>

--biffhex	show hex dump of each BIFF record
--noint	do not output interpretation of BIFF records
--out	send output to <fileName>.out
--rawhex	output raw hex dump of whole workbook stream
--escher	turn on deserialization of escher records (default is off)
--noheader	do not print record header (default is on)

Parameters:

args - the command line arguments

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if the file doesn't exist or contained errors

CommandParseException - if the command line contained errors

org.apache.poi.hssf.dev.BiffViewer.CommandParseException

getPOIFSInputStream

protected static java.io.InputStream getPOIFSInputStream(NPOIFSFileSystem fs)
                                                  throws java.io.IOException,
                                                         java.io.FileNotFoundException

Throws:

java.io.IOException

java.io.FileNotFoundException

runBiffViewer

protected static void runBiffViewer(java.io.PrintWriter pw,
                                    java.io.InputStream is,
                                    boolean dumpInterpretedRecords,
                                    boolean dumpHex,
                                    boolean zeroAlignHexDump,
                                    boolean suppressHeader)