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#8 CobolBuilder writing records to single line

2018-01-12T18:37:07.392000Z

Thank you! Bruce for the detailed explanation.

#8 CobolBuilder writing records to single line

2018-01-11T01:55:28.136000Z

JRecord is designed to work with Cobol data structures. The setFileOrganization
tells JRecords are to be organised - i.e. what the line seperator is.

Fixed width Records

With length records, each record is a fixed length. There is no /r / n etc between individual records.

<--Record 1 --><--Record 2 --><--Record 3 -->

This is what was being used initially. JRecord provides 2 versions of fixed length records

          .setFileOrganization(Constants.IO_FIXED_LENGTH_RECORDS)

does byte (stream based IO). You can use it for single byte charactersets / binary files.

          .setFileOrganization(Constants.IO_FIXED_LENGTH_CHAR)

Used for multi-byte character-sets (e.g.UTF-8, UTF-16)

VB Records

With Variable length records you have

   <record-length><--- record data  --->
   <record-length><---   record data     --->
   <record-length><--- record data --->
   <record-length><---        record data       --->

JRecord provides several VB formats Constants.IO_VB, Constants.IO_VB_DUMP, Constants.IO_VB_FUJITSU, Constants.IO_VB_GNU_COBOL

Text files

For standard text files you can use

         .setFileOrganization(Constants.IO_BIN_TEXT)

         .setFileOrganization(Constants.IO_UNICODE_TEXT)

With Constants.IO_BIN_TEXT all IO is done at byte (stream level).

With Constants.IO_UNICODE_TEXT standard Java Read / writers are used

#8 CobolBuilder writing records to single line

2018-01-10T14:48:54.257000Z

Thank you!Bruce .It is working perfectly now. Can you update how Constants.Io_BIN_TEXT helped here?

#5 PIC 9(5).99- should be numeric

2018-01-10T04:10:03.749000Z

status: open --> pending

#8 CobolBuilder writing records to single line

2018-01-10T04:08:53.526000Z

What you need to do is set the setFileOrganization(Constants.IO_BIN_TEXT):

final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL
            .newIOBuilder("copybook")
                    .setFileOrganization(Constants.IO_BIN_TEXT)
                    .setFont("CP1252");

#8 CobolBuilder writing records to single line

2018-01-10T03:05:16.201000Z

Description has changed:

Diff:

--- old
+++ new
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  check if below code is correct.

-    final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL.newIOBuilder(
+        final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL.newIOBuilder(
             "copybook").setFont("CP1252"); 
          AbstractLineWriter writer =  ioBuilder.newWriter("output.txt");
          AbstractLine outline = null;

#8 CobolBuilder writing records to single line

2018-01-10T03:03:56.427000Z

Description has changed:

Diff:

--- old
+++ new
@@ -3,19 +3,19 @@
  I am using jrecord to write records to file. But i writer is writing all records to a single. Can you please
  check if below code is correct.

- ~~~
-  final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL.newIOBuilder(
-       "copybook").setFont("CP1252"); 
-     AbstractLineWriter writer =  ioBuilder.newWriter("output.txt");
-     AbstractLine outline = null;
-     while(resultSet.next()){
-       outline = ioBuilder.newLine();
-       outline.getField("id").set(resultSet.getInt("id")));
+
+    final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL.newIOBuilder(
+            "copybook").setFont("CP1252"); 
+         AbstractLineWriter writer =  ioBuilder.newWriter("output.txt");
+         AbstractLine outline = null;
+         while(resultSet.next()){
+           outline = ioBuilder.newLine();
+           outline.getField("id").set(resultSet.getInt("id")));

-       writer.write(outline);
-       }
-       writer.close();
-~~~
+           writer.write(outline);
+           }
+           writer.close();
+

       Excpected  Output:
       1234

#8 CobolBuilder writing records to single line

2018-01-10T03:02:53.549000Z

Description has changed:

Diff:

--- old
+++ new
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@

  I am using jrecord to write records to file. But i writer is writing all records to a single. Can you please
  check if below code is correct.
+ 
  ~~~
-
- final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL.newIOBuilder(
-   "copybook").setFont("CP1252");
+  final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL.newIOBuilder(
+       "copybook").setFont("CP1252"); 
      AbstractLineWriter writer =  ioBuilder.newWriter("output.txt");
      AbstractLine outline = null;
      while(resultSet.next()){

#8 CobolBuilder writing records to single line

2018-01-10T03:01:06.992000Z

Description has changed:

Diff:

--- old
+++ new
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@

  I am using jrecord to write records to file. But i writer is writing all records to a single. Can you please
  check if below code is correct.
- 
+ ~~~
+
  final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL.newIOBuilder(
    "copybook").setFont("CP1252");
      AbstractLineWriter writer =  ioBuilder.newWriter("output.txt");
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@
        writer.write(outline);
        }
        writer.close();
+~~~

       Excpected  Output:
       1234

CobolBuilder writing records to single line

2018-01-10T01:43:49.838000Z

Ticket 8 has been modified: CobolBuilder writing records to single line
Edited By: Bruce Martin (bruce_a_martin)
Description updated:
--- description-old

+++ description-new

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

check if below code is correct.

final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL.newIOBuilder(
final ICobolIOBuilder ioBuilder = JRecordInterface1.COBOL.newIOBuilder(
"copybook").setFont("CP1252");
AbstractLineWriter writer = ioBuilder.newWriter("output.txt");
AbstractLine outline = null;