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Data Files

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Introduction

There is a data import tool in OFBiz called the DataFile tool. It uses XML files that describe flat file formats (including character delimited, fixed width, etc) and parses the flat files based on those definitions. So, by design it is somewhat like the Entity Engine. It uses a generic object to represent a row in the flat file. It includes features like a line type code for each line and can support hierarchical flat files (ie where parent/child relationships are implied by sub-records).

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