org.apache.poi.hssf.dev
Class BiffViewer

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

public final class BiffViewer
extends java.lang.Object

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

Author:

Andrew C. Oliver (acoliver at apache dot org), Glen Stampoultzis (glens at apache.org)

See Also:

main(java.lang.String[])

Method Summary

static Record[]	createRecords(java.io.InputStream is, java.io.PrintStream ps, org.apache.poi.hssf.dev.BiffViewer.BiffRecordListener recListener, boolean dumpInterpretedRecords) Create an array of records from an input stream
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Method main with 1 argument just run straight biffview against given file

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

createRecords

public static Record[] createRecords(java.io.InputStream is,
                                     java.io.PrintStream 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

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)

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)