Are there any Java Frameworks for binary file pars

Question

My problem is, that I want to parse binary files of different types with a generic parser which is implemented in JAVA. Maybe describing the file format with a configuration file which is read by the parser or creating Java classes which parse the files according to some sort of parsing rules.

I have searched quite a bit on the internet but found almost nothing on this topic.

What I have found are just things which deal with compiler-generators (Jay, Cojen, etc.) but I don't think that I can use them to generate something for parsing binary files. But I could be wrong on that assumption.

Are there any frameworks which deal especially with easy parsing of binary files or can anyone give me a hint how I could use parser/compiler-generators to do so?

Update: I'm looking for something where I can write a config-file like

file:
  header: FIXED("MAGIC")
  body: content(10)

content:
  value1: BYTE
  value2: LONG
  value3: STRING(10)

and it generates automatically something which parses files which start with "MAGIC", followed by ten times the content-package (which itself consists of a byte, a long and a 10-byte string).

Update2: I found something comparable what I'm looking for, "Construct", but sadly this is a Python-Framework. Maybe this helps someone to get an idea, what I'm looking for.

Answer 1

I have been developing a framework for Java which allows to parse binary data https://github.com/raydac/java-binary-block-parser in the case you should just describe structure of your binary file in pseudolanguage

Answer 2

give a try to preon