I would like to note this CSVRecord addition I am planning on: public Boolean getBoolean(String name) { public boolean getBooleanPrimitive(String name)
The method listings are at the end of this message. What I want to note here is that these are conversion methods and that the record still stores the values internally as Strings. I do not want to Javadoc the conversion in order to give us flexibility over representation if we decide to change it in the future (caching or whatnot). I wanted to post here in CTR mode before I or others add APIs like getLong() and getLongPrimitive(). Since this is a library, I do believe we should end up providing such APIs at the record level for primitives. /** * Returns a value by name. * * @param name * the name of the column to be retrieved. * @return the column value, or {@code null} if the column name is not found * @throws IllegalStateException * if no header mapping was provided * @throws IllegalArgumentException * if the record is inconsistent * @see #isConsistent() */ public Boolean getBoolean(String name) { String s = this.get(name); return s != null ? Boolean.valueOf(s) : null; } /** * Returns a value by name. * * @param name * the name of the column to be retrieved. * @return the column value, or {@code false} if the column name is not found * @throws IllegalStateException * if no header mapping was provided * @throws IllegalArgumentException * if the record is inconsistent * @see #isConsistent() */ public boolean getBooleanPrimitive(String name) { return Boolean.parseBoolean(this.get(name)); } Gary -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory