As the original creator of [flatfile] it would be interesting to see
how difficult it would be to make [flatfile] do any of the things that
[csv] can currently do; e.g. [flatfile] can already handle a delimited
column structure.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> IMHO if you could implement the readers as XMLReader instances, you
> can get benefit from the powerful Digester matching rules and POJOs
> mapping.
> I had a spike with Digester reading JSON via a javacc grammar but it
> was not complete so never proposed it.
>
> just my 0.0000002 cents,
> -Simo
>
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Le 07/03/2012 12:57, sebb a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>  Since CSV is currently only a single package with very few classes,
>>>> would it perhaps be suitable as a part of an existing Commons
>>>> component?
>>>>
>>>
>>> [csv] is still small but will probably increase in size as more features
>>> are integrated (like the bean mapping). I prefer to leave it as an
>>> independent component. If it was to be merged with another component in the
>>> future I think [flatfile] would be a better candidate.
>>
>>
>> I like the name [flatfile], it does imply something more generic than just
>> *Comma* separated values.
>>
>> I am intrigued by the idea of merging this into an existing component but I
>> do not see which one would really fit. [io] comes close but I my mind
>> [flatfile] could evolve into a JDBC driver. When I think about it that way,
>> it does not fit into [io].
>>
>> I do like the idea of merging certain things though, so I might bring up
>> merging [exec] into [lang] for example...
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  [This would solve the package name issue.]
>>>>
>>>
>>> Let's not try contortions to solve this issue. We have to admit that the
>>> impact is limited. The solr-commons-csv artifact is not widely used, Solr
>>> is going to fix the next releases, and for people importing the previous
>>> release it'll be possible to exclude the dependency to avoid a conflict.
>>>
>>> It's not perfect but it's good enough to keep the current package and
>>> class names unchanged. Well put a warning on the main page to document the
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> Emmanuel Bourg
>>>
>>>
>>
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