License

This project is in pre-release; it is intended to have the Apache license but is not ready for consumption by the general public. If you would like to try this application and/or contribute with code and feedback, feel free.

Summary

Building a delimited file viewer. Why? Quickly view a delimited file (comma-delimited is the default) and autosize columns according to content.

• High priority features:

  • Button/Action to "toggle"-autosize (i.e. the user has modified column widths so restore autosize but allow to restore user settings)
  • Modifications to view* should be captured in a way that both displays the mod to the user and lets them selectively enable/disable it.
    • For example, if I filter a column, the filter expression should be displayed in a way that I can later disable the filter expression ... but!... it should still exist in the UI in case I want to re-enable it (i.e. toggle it for the rest of the "session")
    • For example, same goes for sorting on a column
      • drag and drop reorder of sorting priority?
  • Allow SQL-like filtering (i.e. where columnN = expression);
    • perhaps use DB driver that understands file?

• Medium priority features:

  • Search (see JIDE lib; example here http://www.tutego.de/java/additional-java-swing-components.htm)
  • Auto detect numeric and date fields

• Low priority features:

  • Customize colors/theme

Install a local JAR to local repo

mvn install:install-file 
-Dfile=./nimrodlf-1.2d.jar 
-DgroupId=com.nilo.plaf 
-DartifactId=nimrod 
-Dversion=1.2d 
-Dpackaging=jar

Misc/Notes

pattern for exposing API settings/actions: checkbox is not inherently an "action" but its paradigm is virtually the same as a button

https://developmentality.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/glazed-lists-an-essential-java-library-for-lists-and-tables/

https://adtmag.com/Articles/2001/12/01/Customize-your-JTable-for-an-enriched-Swing-experience.aspx?Page=2

https://www.javaworld.com/article/2077480/core-java/java-tip-116--set-your-table-options----at-runtime-.html

https://www.javaworld.com/article/2077465/learn-java/java-tip-102--add-multiple-jtable-cell-editors-per-column.html

https://www.javaworld.com/article/2077503/learn-java/java-tip-137--manage-distributed-jtables.html

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.swinglabs <<< download artifacts and try to find source if possible!!! https://javalibs.com/artifact/org.swinglabs.swingx/swingx-all <<< this has a download tab with a source jar!!!

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=598024&seqNum=2 <<< swingx datepicker

http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/about/

https://netbeans.org/community/magazine/html/03/bluemarine/

Interesting archivable page: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37975_01/user.111240/e17455/java_swing.htm#OJDUG2093

http://commons.apache.org/

^^^ pull most of these into jpad

            https://dzone.com/articles/java-command-line-interfaces-part-1-apache-commons

Check this out:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-optiq-csv

https://github.com/julianhyde/optiq

^^^ ahhhh... Superceded by Calcite (which I have an earlier email about)

Google: java fastest parse of fixed width format

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1609807/whats-the-best-way-of-parsing-a-fixed-width-formatted-file-in-java

http://flatworm.sourceforge.net/

http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/commons-flatfile/

https://www.univocity.com/pages/univocity_parsers_tutorial

http://fixedformat4j.ancientprogramming.com/ https://github.com/jeyben/fixedformat4j http://jeyben.github.io/fixedformat4j/

http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/

http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/commons-finder/

http://commons.apache.org/dormant.html > Launcher