On 29 November 2014 at 10:34, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > 2014-11-28 19:41 GMT+01:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>: > >> This is probably out of scope for a light weight component like Commons >> CSV. You could use Hibernate for all your mapping needs. >> > > I don't understand what hibernate has to do with this, since it is an > object-relational mapping framework and Frank's proposal is about mapping > between CSV data and pojos... We talked about a mapping functionality for > csv before. I agree that it is out of scope of what we have currently. but > I could imagine to transform csv to a multiproject, that has a core > component and a mapping component (and probably more) > > Frank, the mailing list server will strip any attachments. Can you create a > github repository, so we can discuss your proposal in more detail?
Alternatively, sign up for JIRA and create a "new feature" issue under CSV. Files can be attached to the issue. > TIA! > Benedikt > > >> >> Gary >> >> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Ulbricht, Frank" < >> f.ulbri...@qualitype.de> </div><div>Date:11/28/2014 03:13 (GMT-05:00) >> </div><div>To: dev@commons.apache.org </div><div>Cc: </div><div>Subject: >> [csv] Object Mapping Proposal </div><div> >> </div>Hello there, >> >> about 15 years ago I started to write a CSV library. Our company is using >> it for a long time now. Over the time a lot of interesting features were >> added. Now I have decided to replace it with the commons-csv. This API >> looks very good and it provides some low-level features our library is >> missing (e.g. multi-line records with escaping). >> >> Nevertheless, we have a lot of high-level features for easily mapping >> between objects and the csv files. I am planning to migrate those to use >> the commons-csv for the I/O work. And I want to use this chance to redesign >> our APIs. >> >> Now a thought crossed my mind, how about contributing this to the >> commons-csv? In order to get an idea want I am planning to do I have >> attached a sample project to this mail. It is just an idea, far from being >> perfect. It shall demonstrate how it may look like one day. >> >> Sure, in the moment this sample uses a lot of pretty cool Java 8 stuff, >> but there are ways to make it available to earlier Java versions too. >> >> Please have a look at the class “CSVObjectParserTest” it and tell me what >> you think. >> >> Thank you, >> Frank. >> >> P.S. Looks like my previous mail was ignored because the subscription >> process was not yet finished. If not, please ignore the duplicate mail. >> > > > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
