aliakhtar/diffparser

Parse unified diffs with Java.

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diffparser

Parse unified diffs with Java.

Code example

DiffParser parser = new UnifiedDiffParser();
InputStream in = new FileInputStream("/path/to/file.diff");
List<Diff> diff = parser.parse(in);

Maven coordinates

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.wickedsource</groupId>
  <artifactId>diffparser</artifactId>
  <version>1.1</version>
</dependency>

If you do not use Maven as build tool, you can download the JAR at a public Maven repository like http://mvnrepository.com/.

What Diff formats can be parsed?

Currently, the only implementation of the DiffParser interface is UnifiedDiffParser, which supports parsing of diffs like the following:

Modified: trunk/test1.txt
===================================================================
--- /trunk/test1.txt	2013-10-23 19:41:56 UTC (rev 46)
+++ /trunk/test1.txt	2013-10-23 19:44:39 UTC (rev 47)
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 test1
-test1
+test234

-test1
\ No newline at end of file
@@ -5,9 +6,10 @@
-test1
-test1
+aösdhasd
+asdasd

An input stream may contain several sections like the above, delimited by an empty line. Each such section will be parsed into an object of class Diff.

Contributors

thombergsaliakhtarssoloff

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