Hi.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 07:22:00 +0000 (UTC), Bruno P. Kinoshita wrote:
From what I understood from the previous messages & discussion on
GitHub, it would be more convenient for users to be able to have a
List instead of an Iterable,

Why "instead"?
The patch makes the class a subclass of "List"; and "List"
implements "Iterable".

or instead of having to call the
#toList() or convert to a List in some other way.
I commented in the pull request, that I don't think there would be a
performance penalty in doing so (at least I don't think so, as the
values are not streamed, but rather kept in the private values array).
However, I think we are delivering an Iterable that's fully capable
to be used as an Iterable now. Whereas the proposal would make it a
read-only list, as that returned from unmodifiableList,

That's not what the patch does:
  https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/AbstractList.html

i.e. throwing
exceptions for add/clear/etc operations.

The original code (using "Arrays.asList") could not do those operations: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#asList(T...)

In my opinion, I prefer to keep it as an Iterable, leave the toList
method, as I think current users could be affected

How?
[In the original code, "toList" is private.]

by accidentally
trying to reuse CSVRecord while reading from one input and writing to
an output stream.

I don't understand this.

Regards,
Gilles


So I'm -0 for it.
Bruno

      From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com>
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 Subject: Re: [CSV] Records as Lists

What is the use-case for using lists?

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 18:34, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I am looking for opinions on turning a CSV record into a list, as opposed to the minimal current implementation. There would be side-effects like a record becoming writable instead of read-only as the current implementation.

Memory footprint would also be a concern.

Please see https://github.com/apache/commons-csv/pull/35

Gary

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