FlatFieldFormat (beanio 3.0.0.M2 API)

All Superinterfaces:

FieldFormat

All Known Implementing Classes:

DelimitedFieldFormat, FixedLengthFieldFormat, FlatFieldFormatSupport
```
public interface FlatFieldFormat
extends FieldFormat
```
A FlatFieldFormat is a FieldFormat for flat stream formats (i.e. CSV, delimited and fixed length).

Since:

2.0

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  int getPosition()
  Returns the field position.
  - Methods inherited from interface org.beanio.internal.parser.FieldFormat
    extract, getSize, insertField, insertValue, isLazy, isNillable

- Method Detail
  - getPosition
```
int getPosition()
```
    Returns the field position.
    In a delimited/CSV stream format, the position is the index of the field in the record starting at 0. For example, the position of field2 in the following comma delimited record is 1:
    field1,field2,field3
    In a fixed length stream format, the position is the index of the first character of the field in the record, also starting at 0. For example, the position of field2 in the following record is 6:
    field1field2field3
    
    Returns:
    
    the field position