On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:28:26 -0500, Tim Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I probably should have said up front that I had written this expressly > because the ostermiller implementation is inaccessible to me due to the GPL > license. > > > http://www.osjava.org/genjava/multiproject/gj-csv/ > > I didn't run across that in my search; I'll have to check it out more in > depth. One thing I like off the top is being able to read field-by-field; > my implementation currently grabs a line at a time, but I can see on a very > wide file that this would be necessary. > > Regardless, is there any interest in placing this in commons? I know my > company prefers to minimize the number of sources for tools, and having this > in commons would have been helpful for me. If there's interest I'll clean up > the code (add apache banner, format according to accepted styles, that sort > of thing) and send it out for review and voting.
+1 from me. > > IO is the first place I'd look for csv handling (though possibly only > > because I implement them as Reader/Writer style classes). Others have > > suggested Codec in the past. > > Yeah, there's no clear winner between the two. They're not exactly > reader/writers which is why I named them parser & printer -- just so nobody > expected them to be subclasses of java.io.Reader & java.io.Writer. I think the reason there's no clear winner between these is because it isn't really either. ;-) It's really a file format thingy, and we don't (yet) have a component for those. That said, I'd prefer to see this in Codec for now, simply because I see file format handling as potentially expanding beyond just the IO part. On the other hand, I don't feel all that strongly about that. -- Martin Cooper > > Tim > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 6:51 PM > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List; Dion Gillard > > Subject: Re: CSV parser & printer > > > > http://www.osjava.org/genjava/multiproject/gj-csv/ > > > > is available as well if it has any useful ideas that could be merged in. > > > > IO is the first place I'd look for csv handling (though possibly only > > because I implement them as Reader/Writer style classes). Others have > > suggested Codec in the past. > > > > Hen > > > > > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:43:11 +1000, Dion Gillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > The licensing on those is GPL. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:32:20 -0400, Jung, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > Tim, > > > > Someone beat you to the punch. There's already an implementation at: > > > > > > > > http://ostermiller.org/utils/CSV.html > > > > and for excel: > > > > http://ostermiller.org/utils/ExcelCSV.html > > > > > > > > I haven't used them so I don't know how well they work. > > > > > > > > That said, these classes are on the lesser-known Giant Java Tree, not > > > > Commons, and are licensed under GPL, not LGPL :( so I would very much > > like > > > > to see your work whether or not the Commons folks are interested in > > > > publishing it. > > > > > > > > Good luck, > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Tim Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:18 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: CSV parser & printer > > > > > > > > I've implemented CSV parser & printer classes (with accompanying unit > > tests) > > > > that are Microsoft Excel compatible (i.e. it uses double quotes rather > > than > > > > an escape character). I'd like to donate it to commons; any interest? > > Which > > > > project would it go to - I didn't see one that jumped out as being the > > > > obvious candidate. > > > > > > > > Tim Dawson > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://www.multitask.com.au/people/dion/ > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
