FileUtil UTF-8

.classpath

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry including="**/*.java" kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src">
+		<attributes>
+			<attribute name="optional" value="true"/>
+			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
+		</attributes>
+	</classpathentry>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-17">
+		<attributes>
+			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
+		</attributes>
+	</classpathentry>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
+		<attributes>
+			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
+		</attributes>
+	</classpathentry>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+</classpath>

.gitignore

@@ -53,3 +53,4 @@ javadoc*
 **/classes/**
 **/RegressionTestData_Extracted/**
 **/output/**
+/target/

.project

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>OpenTDK</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>

src/org/opentdk/api/datastorage/TabularContainer.java

@@ -521,6 +521,16 @@ public List<String[]> getColumnsList(String[] columnHeaders, int[] rowIndexes, F
 		return colList;
 	}
 
+	public List<?> getColumnsList(Filter rowFilter, Class<?> storageObject) {
+		List<?> ret = new ArrayList<>();
+		List<String[]> rows = getColumnsList(new String[0], new int[0], rowFilter);
+		for(String[] row : rows) {
+			for(int i = 0; i < row.length; i++) {
+				// .. TODO
+			}
+		}
+		return ret;
+	}
 
 	public int getHeaderIndex(String headerName) {
 		int retVal = -1;

src/org/opentdk/api/datastorage/TreeContainer.java

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package org.opentdk.api.datastorage;
 
 import org.opentdk.api.filter.Filter;
-import org.w3c.dom.Element;
 
 public interface TreeContainer extends SpecificContainer {
 

src/org/opentdk/api/dispatcher/BaseDispatchComponent.java

@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
-import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.opentdk.api.application.EBaseSettings;

src/org/opentdk/api/io/FileUtil.java

@@ -470,21 +470,33 @@ public static String getRowsAsString(File file) {
 	public static String getRowsAsString(String path) {
 		return getRowsAsString(path, -1);
 	}
-
+	
 	/**
 	 * Read the lines of a ASCII file to a String by using the {@link java.io.BufferedReader}. This is a
 	 * very fast type of reading. Especially for large files. Line breaks (\n) are included, too.
 	 * 
 	 * @param path      Full name (path + name) of the file to work with.
-	 * @param lineCount Possibility to determine the number of iterations/lines. Use {@literal -} 1 to
-	 *                  switch off.
+	 * @param lineCount Possibility to determine the number of iterations/lines. Use {@literal -} 1 to switch off.
 	 * @return A list of type string with all lines of the file as elements.
 	 */
 	public static String getRowsAsString(String path, int lineCount) {
+		return getRowsAsString(path, lineCount, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Read the lines of a ASCII file to a String by using the {@link java.io.BufferedReader}. This is a
+	 * very fast type of reading. Especially for large files. Line breaks (\n) are included, too.
+	 * 
+	 * @param path      Full name (path + name) of the file to work with.
+	 * @param lineCount Possibility to determine the number of iterations/lines. Use {@literal -} 1 to switch off.
+	 * @param encoding Character encoding, see {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets}
+	 * @return A list of type string with all lines of the file as elements.
+	 */
+	public static String getRowsAsString(String path, int lineCount, Charset encoding) {
 		BufferedReader br = null;
 		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 		try {
-			br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path));
+			br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path, encoding));
 
 			String line = null;
 			int i = 0;
@@ -521,18 +533,31 @@ public static List<String> getRowsAsList(File file) {
 		return FileUtil.getRowsAsList(file.getPath());
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Read the lines of a ASCII file to a {@link java.util.List} by using the
+	 * {@link java.io.BufferedReader}. This is a very fast type of reading. Especially for large files.
+	 * Default character encoding is UTF8.
+	 * 
+	 * @param path Full name (path + name) of the file to work with.
+	 * @return A list of type string with all lines of the file as elements.
+	 */
+	public static List<String> getRowsAsList(String path) {		
+		return getRowsAsList(path, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Read the lines of a ASCII file to a {@link java.util.List} by using the
 	 * {@link java.io.BufferedReader}. This is a very fast type of reading. Especially for large files.
 	 * 
 	 * @param path Full name (path + name) of the file to work with.
+	 * @param encoding Character encoding, see {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets}
 	 * @return A list of type string with all lines of the file as elements.
 	 */
-	public static List<String> getRowsAsList(String path) {
+	public static List<String> getRowsAsList(String path, Charset encoding) {
 		BufferedReader br = null;
 		List<String> rows = new ArrayList<>();
 		try {
-			br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path));
+			br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path, encoding));
 
 			String line = null;
 			while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
@@ -581,7 +606,7 @@ public static String getContent(String path, Charset cs) {
 			MLogger.getInstance().log(Level.SEVERE, e);
 			throw new RuntimeException(e);
 		}
-		return FileUtil.getContent(stream, cs);
+		return getContent(stream, cs);
 	}
 
 	/**

src/org/opentdk/api/io/XMLEditor.java

@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;