Get the data format of a file by using the GuessFileType method.
Recognized file formats are:
- CSV for Delimited
- FIX for Fixed Record
-
DIF for Data Interchange Format
- EXCEL_BIFF for Microsoft Excel (XLS)
- EXCEL_OOXML for Microsoft Excel (XLSX)
- HTMLfor HTML
- QVD for QVD file
- XML for XML
- QVX for QVX file
- JSON for JSON format
-
KML for KML file
Example
The goal is to get the data format of a file. The name of the file is books.xml.
The client sends:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 12,
"method": "GuessFileType",
"handle": 1,
"params": [
"AB8A2202-B853C624-22FCF5E7-8E28162D-DF4B5E8C",
"E:\\TFS\\Ver12.00\\dev\\ft-core\\test\\Platform\\qlikviewTests\\ProtocolTester4Net\\TestData\\Util\\books.xml"
]
}
The engine returns:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 12,
"result": {
"qDataFormat": {
"qType": "XML",
"qDelimiter": {
"qNumber": 0
},
"qCodePage": 0,
"qHeaderSize": 0,
"qRecordSize": 0,
"qTabSize": 0
}
}
}
The data format of the file books.xml is returned. The type of the file is XML.