edu.uky.kcr.recordlinkage.datasource
Class CsvFileLinkageDataSource

java.lang.Object
  edu.uky.kcr.recordlinkage.datasource.AbstractLinkageDataSource
      edu.uky.kcr.recordlinkage.datasource.CsvFileLinkageDataSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

LinkageDataSource

public class CsvFileLinkageDataSource
extends AbstractLinkageDataSource

This class encapsulates the parsing of records from a CSV file to use in a linkage operation. The CSV file must include column names as the first line and use a comma as a field separator. Each line in the file is assumed to be a new record.

Author:

ihands

Constructor Summary

CsvFileLinkageDataSource(java.io.File file)
Constructor that takes only a CSV file, the record key for each record will be assigned internally.

CsvFileLinkageDataSource(java.io.File file, java.lang.String[] recordIdColumnNames)
Constructor that takes a CSV file and an array of record key column names.

Method Summary

java.io.File	getFile()
java.lang.String[]	getRecordIdColumns()
void	setFile(java.io.File file)
void	setRecordIdColumns(java.lang.String[] recordIdColumns)

Methods inherited from class edu.uky.kcr.recordlinkage.datasource.AbstractLinkageDataSource

allRecords, dispose, getIndex, getPhoneticIndex, getRecordMap

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CsvFileLinkageDataSource

public CsvFileLinkageDataSource(java.io.File file)
                         throws java.io.IOException

Constructor that takes only a CSV file, the record key for each record will be assigned internally.

Parameters:

file - CSV file with a comma to separate fields and a new record on each line. The first line should be column names.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

CsvFileLinkageDataSource

public CsvFileLinkageDataSource(java.io.File file,
                                java.lang.String[] recordIdColumnNames)
                         throws java.io.IOException

Constructor that takes a CSV file and an array of record key column names. The record key for each record will be generated from a concatenation of the values of each field in the recordIdColumns array.

Parameters:

file - CSV file with a comma to separate fields and a new record on each line. The first line should be column names.

recordIdColumnNames - Array of column names to use for the record key of each record.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

Method Detail

setRecordIdColumns

public void setRecordIdColumns(java.lang.String[] recordIdColumns)

getRecordIdColumns

public java.lang.String[] getRecordIdColumns()

setFile

public void setFile(java.io.File file)

getFile

public java.io.File getFile()