Record Files and the Buffer Class Hierarchy

(code described in Chpts 4-5, Appdx F of "File Structures", 1998) F15-16

BufferFile
Open Read
F1-2
IOBuffer &Buffer; Create Write
Person fstream File; Close Append
char Name[22]; Clear InitBuffer(Delim) uses Rewind
char City[16];
Unpack InitBuffer(LenFld)
char State[3];
char Zip[10]; Pack InitBuffer(FixFld) base class of

F17
uses
F3-4 RecordFile <Person>
IOBuffer contains a Read
operator= Write Append
char *Buffer; int NextByte;
int BufferSize; int Packing; Read Write
int MaxBytes; Pack Unpack F11-12
FixedLengthBuffer
F5-6 Clear ChangeRecordSize
VariableLengthBuffer Read Write
PackFixLen Read SizeOfBuffer ReadHeader
PackDelimited Write operator= WriteHeader
PackLength ReadHeader
WriteHeader F13-14
FixedFieldBuffer
F7-8 Clear NumberOfFields
DelimFieldBuffer int *FieldSize;
F9-10
int MaxFields;
Read Write
Clear LengthFieldBuffer int NumFields; Pack ReadHeader
char Delim;
Pack Unpack Clear int NextField; Unpack WriteHeader
ReadHeader Pack Unpack AddField operator=
WriteHeader

prepared by M. Wainer for CS330