PFSAK is a project that includes many necessary tools for a software engineer can use and provides the simplest use.
- Initial execution
- Copy processors between profiles
- Change current password
- Run profile
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Processors
If you are opening the application for the first time, you will be faced with the "Create password" window. If you wish, set a password, and save it somewhere to remember Pay attention to the upper-case and lower-case special characters in the password you have specified. If you forget the password, you will need to remove the "pfsak.configs" file from the computer. This means that the information you have saved in the program will be lost.
When the above steps are completed successfully, you will see the profile named "Default Profile" determined by us. You can add what you want to do by pressing the "+" button. You can see all the operations you can do in the picture on the right. These phrases will be added to the top left list as you add them. When you list at the top left, you will see the reverse order in the list at the top right.
The processors you add will be the inverse. e.g. For the “CompressConfig” processor, if "Compress" is marked in the list on the left, "Decompress" will be marked in the list on the right.
The system does not automatically generate inverse processing for RegEx, XML, JSON, and URL.
You can copy your data between profiles in the system. By clicking to Profiles -> Copy… section, the window which is on the right side will open. This window is where you place the copy process. The section that is indicated by the red arrow points out the profile you want to copy, and the section that is indicated by the blue arrow points out where you copy. That panel shows the information of the profile that is selected by red. This is enough for copying a profile. If you want to copy more than a processor in profile, you can select processors holding down the CTRL key without any space between them.
If you want to change the current password. The path you have to follow is that: Password -> Change… Here, you must first verify your old password. As soon as this process is completed successfully, the screen where you can change your password will appear. For the password change to take place, the passwords you wrote in both TextFields must match each other, otherwise you cannot click the "Ok" button.
When you click the "Run >>" button after making all the necessary additions, the application will run, and it will give you the necessary outputs. The "Inverse <<" button represents the opposite of the operations performed under the "Run >>" button. You can check whether the program is running or not from the "Print -->" section below. If there is no printout in this part, the system has not worked properly and will not give output to you.
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Create new profile | CTRL + N |
| Delete profile | CTRL + D |
| If you want to copy the processors from the profile to another profile | CTRL + C |
| Rename profile | F2 |
| Save | CTRL + S |
| Exit | ALT + F4 |
| Add a new processor to profile | + |
| Delete existing processor in profile | - |
You have to double click on the processor on which you want to act from the listing on the left or right.
The constant processor allows you to directly write the data you want to process without having to read any files.
The database processor section, allows you to “Select” and “Update” from whichever type you want. You are required to enter the extension you are using into the JDBC Driver section. In the picture, you can see the example of PostgreSQL! The URL section should be the URL of your database. When you fill out the parts that indicate what type of data needs to be retrieved from which table's column the process is over.
You can perform reading and writing operations in the File Processor section. Make sure that you have written the correct target file or you can directly select the file by clicking the "…" section on the right.
The compress processor can perform three different compress operations. These are XZ, GZip, and Zip as seen in the picture. You do not need to give a name while performing XZ and Gzip operations. However, you must nominate the file while performing the Zip process.
There are 3 encoding processes in the Encode processor part, these are "BASE64", "Hex to Bin" and "Uuencode". It will be enough to select the operation you want to do and click the Encode or Decode buttons.
The encryption Processor section allows you to encrypt or decrypt your data. You have to enter the key you want to encrypt yourself. You must enter the correct length key:
| Encryption TYPE | BYTE LENGTH | EXAMPLE KEY |
|---|---|---|
| AES key value | 16 byte | 8kN+1HCWTusn76X0dIDoqA== |
| DES key value | 8 byte | aoeG4Rz00R8= |
| 3DES key value | 24 byte | 0qRNUAK7jgGdbxVWa8PjY55N6jDZKAjG |
RegEx Processor searches for the words you specified in your file and replaces them with the word you want.
You can “Get”, “Post” and “Put” your data in URL Processor. Unlike other types, you do not need to fill your "Content-Type" part in the Get type.
The XML extractor Processor allows you to extract (eliminate) the necessary information from the XML file extension. Be sure you've entered the correct Xpath.
JSON Extractor Processor allows you to eliminate information from your data about JSON. You can see the example in the picture. If you have JSON data exists authors and their books, you can get "All authors" with the sample command in the picture.