Problem: read text file in java

[leif stone]

Hi, guys, I am starter in java and servlet. Please please do help me!
that is question:
You program must be able to cope with arbitrary number of questions in the file;
The servlet must display the following text sequence:
..("There are N questions to answer",where "N" is the number of questions in the file.)
..("Question 1<text for question1> Question2<text for question2>....Question N <text for question N>")

(You must preserve the text sequence and spelling. That is, the specified words must
appear in the specified order somewhere in your page.

Therefore, I need to read list of questions in a external plain text from a text file in java. so, what i gonna do?
Thanks a lot!!! Really appreciate if u reply it!

[Gerardo Tasistro]

Ok this is a servlet right?

Is the text file uploaded or held as a resource (in your app directories)

Can the file be XML???

[leif stone]

Thank you for replying fisrt!
yea, it's servlet. The file must be text file and put in my app directory.

[Ben Souther]

Originally posted by leif stone:
(You must preserve the text sequence and spelling. That is, the specified words must
appear in the specified order somewhere in your page.

Is this a homework assignemnt, Leif?

[Gerardo Tasistro]

Ok here is a quick implementation example using Castor (you can use Xstream too). We'll be using XML which is within the scope of your specs.

// get a mapping file
// that says how your questions are mapped

Mapping eventoMapping=new Mapping(getClass().getClassLoader());
if (getClass().getResource("eventoMapping.xml")==null) {
System.out.println("RESOURCE IS NULL");
} else {
System.out.println("RESOURCE IS OK");
}
try {
eventoMapping.loadMapping(getClass().getResource("eventoMapping.xml"));
} catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (MappingException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}

//Then we get a string with your XML
//This is a StringReader, in this case I load it with a string I got from a dbase field. You can open
// the file or use a getResource call for a file
// some comments are in spanish
// the important line is right after abracadabra....
// It creates the object with your questions as elements to the bean
// basically Castor does all the heavy weight text to object work and you get a finished object to
// show on the page
// castor supports Collections so you can create various <question> tags in your
// XML and they'll all be pumped into the Collection (list for example) in the way they're
// in the page
// read into http://www.castor.org/ and http://xstream.codehaus.org/
// CategoriasEventos translates to Event Categories, so it is pretty much what you need except categories are now questions

// agarro el conejo y lo meto al sombrero
StringReader XMLReader=new StringReader(XMLString.toString());
// creo varita magica
Unmarshaller unmarshaller;
try {
// abracadabra....
unmarshaller = new Unmarshaller(eventoMapping);
// SHAZAM!!! nuevo objeto a partir del XML

CategoriasEvento eventoUnmarshalled=(CategoriasEvento) unmarshaller.unmarshal(XMLReader);

// imprimo algo para ver como salio todo
System.out.println("EVENTO ID IS "+eventoUnmarshalled.getId()+" lang is "+eventoUnmarshalled.getLang());
} catch (MarshalException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ValidationException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (MappingException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

[Vivian Ryder]

You can not use a simple IO Reader like BufferedReader in servlets? And just out of curiosity, what is the method whereby XMLString was retrieved?
[ November 08, 2005: Message edited by: Vivian Ryder ]