Hi all, I like the idea of having annotations, and here in CVS you are proposing IMHO a very good approach. If you need some support, as mentioned by Matt, I already deeply explored Annotations analysis at runtime, have a look at[1]
@Matt: you reminded me an old idea I had about opening the digester to other formats, not just XML... coming soon with a new proposal :) Have a nice day, Simo [1] http://commons.apache.org/digester/guide/annotations.html http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > [SNIP] >> >> The other idea relates to the bean mapping feature. CSVFormat could be >> generified and work on annotated classes. I imagine something like this: >> >> public class Person { >> @CSVField(trim = true) >> private String firstname; >> >> @CSVField(header="NAME", width=12) >> private String lastname; >> >> @CSVField(header="DATE", format="yyyy-MM-dd") >> private Date birthdate; >> } >> >> then: >> >> CSVFormat<Person> format = new CSVFormat().withType(Person.class); >> >> for (Person person : format.parse(in)) { >> .... >> } >> >> >> What do you think? > > These make me think of the annotation support Simo added to > [digester]. I wonder if there would be any value in extending > [digester]'s scope to formats beyond XML including CSV/flat files/etc. > > Matt > >> >> >> Emmanuel Bourg >> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
