org.mov.quote
Class YahooIDQuoteFilter

java.lang.Object
  org.mov.quote.YahooIDQuoteFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

IDQuoteFilter

public class YahooIDQuoteFilter
extends java.lang.Object
implements IDQuoteFilter

Provides a filter to parse the Yahoo intra-day stock quote format. This format uses a date with the month name, prices are in dollars. The first column is the symbol, then the last quote, the time, change, open, high, low and then the volume. Example:

 IBM,76.39,6/17/2005,4:02pm,-0.66,77.70,77.73,76.38,8594900
 

Author:

Andrew Leppard

Constructor Summary

YahooIDQuoteFilter()
Creates an instance of the filter.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getName() Return the name of the filter.
IDQuote	toIDQuote(java.lang.String quoteLine) Parse the given text string and returns the stock quote or null if it did not contain a valid quote.
java.lang.String	toString(IDQuote quote) Convert the given stock quote to a string line.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

YahooIDQuoteFilter

public YahooIDQuoteFilter()

Creates an instance of the filter.

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Return the name of the filter.

Specified by:

getName in interface IDQuoteFilter

Returns:

the name of the filter.

toIDQuote

public IDQuote toIDQuote(java.lang.String quoteLine)
                  throws QuoteFormatException

Parse the given text string and returns the stock quote or null if it did not contain a valid quote.

Specified by:

toIDQuote in interface IDQuoteFilter

Parameters:

quoteLine - a single line of text containing a quote.

Returns:

the stock quote

Throws:

QuoteFormatException - if the quote could not be parsed

toString

public java.lang.String toString(IDQuote quote)

Convert the given stock quote to a string line.

Specified by:

toString in interface IDQuoteFilter

Parameters:

quote - a stock quote

Returns:

string version of the quote