My problem is, that I want to parse binary files of different types with a generic parser which is implemented in JAVA. Maybe describing the file format with a configuration file which is read by the parser or creating Java classes which parse the files according to some sort of parsing rules.
I have searched quite a bit on the internet but found almost nothing on this topic.
What I have found are just things which deal with compiler-generators (Jay, Cojen, etc.) but I don’t think that I can use them to generate something for parsing binary files. But I could be wrong on that assumption.
Are there any frameworks which deal especially with easy parsing of binary files or can anyone give me a hint how I could use parser/compiler-generators to do so?
Update:
I’m looking for something where I can write a config-file like
file:
header: FIXED("MAGIC")
body: content(10)
content:
value1: BYTE
value2: LONG
value3: STRING(10)
and it generates automatically something which parses files which start with “MAGIC”, followed by ten times the content-package (which itself consists of a byte, a long and a 10-byte string).
Update2:
I found something comparable what I’m looking for, “Construct“, but sadly this is a Python-Framework. Maybe this helps someone to get an idea, what I’m looking for.
give a try to preon