How To: Write SDEF files

SDEF is the Standard Data Exchange Format, as defined by the USACE (United States Army Corps of Engineers). SDEF is a fixed column format text file, used to import a project schedule up into the QCS (Quality Control System) software from USACE. The specification for the file format can be found here.

The sample code below illustrates how to write data to an SDEF file.

import net.sf.mpxj.ProjectFile;
import net.sf.mpxj.sdef.SDEFWriter;

// ...

SDEFWriter writer = new SDEFWriter();
writer.write(projectFile, outputFileName);

Using SDEFWriter

Charset

By default SDEF files are written using the US_ASCII charset. The setCharset method on the SDEFWriter class can be used to change this if required:

import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

import net.sf.mpxj.ProjectFile;
import net.sf.mpxj.sdef.SDEFWriter;

// ...

SDEFWriter writer = new SDEFWriter();
writer.setCharset(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
writer.write(projectFile, outputFileName);