MappingStrategy.java

package au.com.bytecode.opencsv.bean;


/**
 Copyright 2007 Kyle Miller.

 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 You may obtain a copy of the License at

 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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 */

import au.com.bytecode.opencsv.CSVReader;

import java.beans.IntrospectionException;
import java.beans.PropertyDescriptor;
import java.io.IOException;

public interface MappingStrategy<T> {

    /**
     * Implementation will have to return a property descriptor from a bean based on the current column.
     * @param col the column to find the description for
     * @throws java.beans.IntrospectionException
     * @return the related PropertyDescriptor
     */
    public abstract PropertyDescriptor findDescriptor(int col) throws IntrospectionException;

    public abstract T createBean() throws InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException;

    /**
     * Implementation of this method can grab the header line before parsing begins to use to map columns
     * to bean properties.
     * @param reader the CSVReader to use for header parsing
     * @throws java.io.IOException if parsing fails
     */
    public void captureHeader(CSVReader reader) throws IOException;

}