public Record() 
{

}

instantiates a blank record strictly for ID matching

 public Record(short id,
    short size,
    byte[] data) 
{
        this.id   = id;
        this.size = size;
        this.data = data;
        validateSid(id);
        fillFields(data, size);
}

Constructor Record

Parameters:

id - record id

size - record size

data - raw data

 public Record(short id,
    short size,
    byte[] data,
    int offset) 
{
        this.id   = id;
        this.size = size;
        this.data = data;
        validateSid(id);
        fillFields(data, size, offset);
}

Constructor Record

Parameters:

id - record id

size - record size

data - raw data

 protected  void fillFields(byte[] data,
    short size) 
{
        fillFields(data, size, 0);
}

called by the constructor, should set class level fields. Should throw runtime exception for bad/icomplete data.

 abstract protected  void fillFields(byte[] data,
    short size,
    int offset)
called by the constructor, should set class level fields. Should throw
runtime exception for bad/icomplete data.

 public int getRecordSize() 
{
        // this is kind od a stupid way to do it but for now we just serialize
        // the record and return the size of the byte array
        return serialize().length;
}

gives the current serialized size of the record.

 abstract public short getSid()
return the non static version of the id for this record.

 public boolean isInValueSection() 
{
        return false;
}

DBCELL, ROW, VALUES all say yes

 public boolean isValue() 
{
        return false;
}

tells whether this type of record contains a value

 public  void processContinueRecord(byte[] record) 
{
        // System.out.println("Got a continue record ... NOW what??");
}

Process a continuation record; default handling is to ignore it -- TODO add logging

 abstract public byte[] serialize()
called by the class that is responsible for writing this sucker.
Subclasses should implement this so that their data is passed back in a
byte array.

 public String toString() 
{
        return super.toString();
}

get a string representation of the record (for biffview/debugging)

 abstract protected  void validateSid(short id)
called by constructor, should throw runtime exception in the event of a
record passed with a differing ID.