How to handle multi line fixed length file with BeanIO - etl

Question

I'm very new to BeanIO, it is solving most of my problems but I'm unable to figure out how to solve this one:
I have a multiline fixed width file in the following format:
BBB001 000 000000
BBB555 001 George
BBB555 002 London
BBB555 003 UK
BBB555 999 000000
BBB555 001 Jean
BBB555 002 Paris
BBB555 003 France
BBB555 004 Europe
BBB555 999 000000
BBB999 000 000000
Basically there is a header and footer which I can easily read because they are well defined. However a single record is actually on multiple lines and end of the record is the line that that has 999 in the middle ( there is no other information on that line). I was wondering what should my xml be or what classes do I need to override so I can properly read this type of format.

Answer 1

I would suggest using the lineContinuationCharacter property, as described in the BeanIO documentation. It probably has to be configured as a carriage return and line feed.
Try something like this:
<beanio xmlns="http://www.beanio.org/2012/03"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.beanio.org/2012/03 http://www.beanio.org/2012/03/mapping.xsd">
<stream name="s1" format="fixedlength" lineContinuationCharacter="">
<!-- record layout... -->
</stream>
</beanio>
Note that I haven't tested this, but according to the documentation this should work.