Package pulse.io.readers

Class DATReader

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    AbstractHandler, AbstractReader<List<ExperimentalData>>, CurveReader, Reflexive
    public class DATReader
extends Object
implements CurveReader
    A specific implementation of CurveReader used to read .dat files.

    This file format has been previously used to export data obtained with the Kvant laser flash analyser. Files with a .dat extension should consist of a one-line header listing the test temperature; second and subsequent lines should be made of two or three tab-delimited data columns. The first column represents time t [seconds], and the second column represents the rise of the absolute temperature of the sample over the ambient temperature T-T0. Any other columns are ignored by this reader. The temperature rise corresponds to an absolute scale, according to NIST recommendations.

    • Method Detail

      • getSupportedExtension

        public String getSupportedExtension()
        Description copied from interface: AbstractHandler
        Retrieves the supported extension of files, which this AbstractHandler is able to process.
        Specified by:
        getSupportedExtension in interface AbstractHandler
        Returns:
        a String equal to {.dat}

      • read

        public List<ExperimentalData> read​(File file)
                            throws IOException

        This will return a single ExperimentalData, which stores all the information available in the file, wrapped in a List object with the size of unity. In addition to the time-temperature data loaded directly into the ExperimentalData lists, a Metadata object will be created for the ExperimentalData and will store the test temperature declared in file.

        Specified by:
        read in interface AbstractReader<List<ExperimentalData>>
        Specified by:
        read in interface CurveReader
        Parameters:
        file - a '.dat' file, which conforms to the respective format.
        Returns:
        a single ExperimentalData wrapped in a List with the size of unity.
        Throws:
        IOException - if something goes wrong with reading the file

      • getInstance

        public static CurveReader getInstance()
        As this class uses the singleton pattern, only one instance is created using an empty no-argument constructor.
        Returns:
        the single instance of this class.